Nod.

"Is that what you're upset about?"

"It's not trivially reconciled with her thanking me and I'm trying not to dwell on it."

"She's more confident they aren't horrible evil gods than we are, I expect that's all there is to it."

"This is chip Nerdanel, they Doomed her husband and children and let a lot of shit happen and she thanked me and I killed them. I suppose she could be fond of Aulë in particular."

"My mother is a very straightforward person, she won't mind if you just ask."

"I am not sure I'd like the results and don't strongly expect to need them."

"Okay. More magic! That's good. The more there is floating around the better the chance it's exploitable together."

"Yeah. ...Since development time is their bottleneck theoretically time travel security guy could help but his method of time travel is pretty messy in the relevant direction even in Milliways."

"Messy?"

"Duplicates him, he doesn't actually want to fork even when it's not intrinsically costly."

"That's fair enough. The soul Elf magic - is it learnable?"

"Involves osanwë. So presumably not, or maybe you could learn the theory but not execute on it."

"That's too bad. Speaking of an anti-aging project, we're nearing the point where everyone'll be suspiciously older when they go back to school this fall."

"That's sort of a different anti-aging project. Uh, angels can do some mostly cosmetic work on aging but I don't know if any of them are likely to have picked up 'making teenagers look like younger teenagers'."

"Doesn't seem like it'd be very popular. I realize death from aging is more urgent but on a personal level, you know, that's a century off and to we mortals that's a long time."

"I do know, I didn't know my world had afterlives till I died."

"What, none of the daeva mentioned it?"

"Limbo didn't come up - it's possible at least some of them didn't know about it in the way you might not be able to name an obscure South American culture which receives occasional missionaries from Europe and maybe exports cocoa beans but not very many of those - and since summoning was so rare, ex-summoner daeva were incredibly obscure and I think I didn't meet anybody who knew any."

"Is it known now? Should it be?"

"It is not common knowledge on Earth and probably should be, yes, although I didn't really have to consider that question before since nobody let me talk."

"The Elves can mention it, though. In a thousand years or whatever, once they stop moving at a crawl."

"Yeah. And then people can summon their summoner relatives and soon there will be insipid personality quizzes on the extranet intended to tell you what you'll be when you die if you summon somebody."

"What would I be?"

"Fairy probably? If my guess about how the insipid personality quizzes ought to go is right."