Sigh.

"He knows Aulë better than us so if he were to tell him it'd be because he thought it was warranted even given our reservations - which, I take it, come down to 'an alternate universe version of the Valar did a mind control thing and paroled Melkor, and it's unknown where he stood on both these things?"

"And interdicted summoning and did not do anything about it when Melkor violated parole, yes."

He turns to look at the chip Nerdanel.

"I think you should fetch the Valar and get them to fix it, I think you should have done it immediately, and he will agree with me. He will agree with his alt, if they get the chance to talk. He will probably respect your decision not to do that anyway, but..."

"Well, we don't have to decide right away."

"Depends a lot on how happy Maitimo is here - we should go find him -"

"- he keeps running into tidbits of stuff he doesn't understand and it's freaking him out."

" - do you know where he is now -"

"Last I knew he was in the back yard getting some of the chip Elves to help him learn to read but he may've wandered elsewhere since."

"Thank you." And she takes her husband's hand and they leave.

...Cam goes back to his own room.

"Hey - what happened -"

"Soul Elves are from a flat planet on which Valinor and Endorë are continents. They have magical powers which might get them to Vala-quality power in as little as two thousand years. They are unwilling to have Tiny Maitimo's maternal grandfather miss his childhood and suspect said grandfather would notify Aulë if he found out about all this."

"Also we don't have two thousand years."

"Well, obviously an anti-aging project would need to be undertaken in parallel."

"That's a ridiculous amount of time even so. I am sure we'll come up with something better in two thousand years. Anyway, kiddo doesn't need to see Grandpa in, like, the next five years, right, that's like breakfasttime to an Elf, so we're set for the time being?"

"Maybe. Oh, and they're postponing more kids till omnipotence. It would apparently be irresponsible not to. ...Chip Nerdanel thinks we should have called in the Valar straight away."

"Huh, really? Did she say why?"

"Didn't specify, thinks her dad and his alt would agree though."

"Is her dad an alt, did we check?"

"Not specifically."

"I should probably go ask her why she thinks so."