"The Valar can reshape a body for a soul which has been dispossessed of one but they are not yet very good at it and not all prefer to return."

Cam checks - "No chips. So we've got cyborg Elves and soul Elves."

"And just like wizards and daeva weirdly fail to change much about history up through 1800 -"

"- dear, can you read these?"

" - I can - guess in most places..."

"...uh, maybe written Quenya is different, name me something written from your world and I'll have a look -"

He blinks at him. "I mean - my...notes?"

Cam conjures up the latest pageful. "...no this is totally legible without the bar translating it into my native language for me, and I only know cyborg-Quenya, is it a vocabulary problem -?"

"It's mostly a vocabulary problem -"

"And I'm just not very good with the letters yet, haven't had much time to practice since the baby was born..."

...blink. "Uh..."

"My fault," he says a little defensively of her, "I kept changing them around."

"...changing... them... around?"

" - the letters? I wanted to get it right but it made it hard for anyone else to learn - I wanted to have made up my mind before I tried teaching Nelyafinwë -"

"Are you saying you invented the alphabet."

"Yes. A couple Years ago, and I've been tweaking it since - I had you make my notes because they are as far as I know the only written works in the world -"

"I could be wrong but I think if your alt had invented the alphabet this would have come up at some point."

"They have writing, yes?"

"Yes, and the same letters."

" - well, that's strange. Anyway, it's a good thing you didn't find us a few years sooner or we'd be illiterate and that'd be very embarrassing. As it is we're just - still learning to read things, and don't know any of the vocabulary..."

"Well, you'll pick it up with more to practice on than whatever you happen to be taking notes about, I imagine."

He nods. "We have to hold this door open to continue having interdimensional bar access?"

" - yes and also there are a couple complications you should know about, though maybe they're not best for small ears -"

Having to have all your conversations out loud must be terribly inconvenient.

There are spells for it. Uh. Am I doing this right?