I can hear you fine but you're probably not including your friend, I don't know how that'd work - I can bounce things to him?

"I think I'd rather just use conversation privacy spells, if you don't mind? It's less weird. 

Um.

The Valar need to not parole Melkor. In the other Arda they parole him and he goes back to Endorë and starts a war and kills and tortures hundreds of millions of people."

"It might not actually be nearly as bad for you since you're not cyborgs, but that's just scope-limiting, not prohibitive."

...they look at each other confusedly. 

"Okay. We'll warn them."

"In the other timelines the Fëanáro and his children go off to Endorë to fight him. It's - there are no real prospects of winning. Maitimo is captured."

"The Valar -"

"All of this happened in less than a Year, the Valar had yet to decide what to do. Also they were angry with - there'd been a massacre over the lightleapers to get to Endorë -"

"Lightleapers?"

He looks helplessly at Cam.

"Vehicles that can go between planets in five days. Your alt invented the technology for that, that did come up."

"'planets' and 'vehicles' and 'technology' are all new vocabulary. Okay. Tell the Valar not to parole Melkor -"

"No, it's more complicated than that. The - alternate universe version of you - Melkor offered them a deal. He would - stop hurting people - and he was hurting so many people - he would swear never to do any of it again - does your kind of Elf have the oaths thing -"

" - yes -"

Cam considers leaving the room. He settles for appearing a cup of coffee and looking away, tail twitching.

"He swore very thoroughly to stop, forever. If we would destroy Valinor.

There was - a way to resurrect the Elves who'd die. So. Your alt decided it was worth it. And it worked. The war was over, Melkor can never do evil again. But the rest of the Valar and all of the Maiar who lived in Valinor are dead."

"You -"

He shivers violently.

Conversational privacy does not stop him from noticing this and looking alarmed!

"We are hoping your Valar might be able to fix it. But they made a lot of really terrible decisions, in the other Arda, and we'd harm lots of people by asking for their help if they're going to make the same bad decisions."

"They made bad decisions! 'Upset because of a massacre' - what massacre - how do you even do that -"

"You can go get the whole story from the alternate universe versions of you who were there. The you is in room 4230," he says to Nerdanel, "and there are ten of you in 113."

" - ten of me?"

"Chip thing. They wanted to invent a non-Milliways method of travelling between worlds and they thought they'd get it faster that way."