"...and you'd get him here how? And if he resisted the curse and walked out the door -?"

"Hey, there are other dimensions and this is a portal between them? And if the door's already open to somewhere I don't see how he gets it without breaking Security rules."

"And which dimension do you want to let Sauron into?"

"A nice uninhabited one, though that oath really did look pretty thorough and I am skeptical he'd be able to be unusually bad anywhere."

"I think it may by Milliways logic be prohibitively difficult to open the door to an uninhabited dimension. He's also still capable of, like, politics. And cruelty to animals, though I suppose that's not worse some places than others."

"And as far as he's capable of politics, most places would probably be harder to do damage than a high-tech universe with billions of people and functioning summoning."

"I would really rather think of something that doesn't let him into a universe that doesn't currently have to deal with him, if we can."

"Yeah, fair. Can also check if the Killing Curse works on Maiar but we shouldn't count on that."

"Do you know how to cast that one? From a technical standpoint; I assume you can muster the necessary hostility."

"I probably need more to go off than 'even creepier than my tutor' but if he's been helping Melkor, yes, sure.

I don't know the spell."

"I have notes on the conversation at the parley for more anti-Sauron psychological ammunition but can't help you with the spell. Having seen it done doesn't help? Creepy tutor did try like three times."

"Helps. But -if you're trying to reverse-engineer spells just from watching them cast, they can backfire, and this is one that'd be very inconvenient, and also I'd need to practice and I'm not sure I can relevantly be malicious towards random animals..."

"What if they bite? Certain demonic animals turn out to have very much intact bite reflexes and no sense of fear."

"There's still the backfire risk, but I guess maybe I could relevantly want a biting demonic animal dead."

"I'm not fond of the backfire risk but I don't know how to address that one."

"I could go ask for lessons."

"- I am clear on that you're upset about that whole thing but not of exactly what reassurance you're looking for - I have a lot more leverage now, I'm not going to betray you -"

"Really, really not the problem. If he is your source on learning nasty spells and you want or need to learn nasty spells that's where you go, he's just a creep and he creeps at you and it's creepy."

"I can probably find someone else it'd just take longer and I'd be less confident I was safe -"

"If you're comfortable with it."

"I'm - confident with it? It is satisfying to be in a position of accumulating resources. But I don't like that it bothers you - and I understand why it would -"

"It actually sounded like you completely failed to understand why it would. Which is weird."

"There's a cultural difference and we're not exactly navigating a domain in which I bothered acquiring a lot of knowledge but -" he shrugs. "Sorry."

"I am not worried you're going to cheat on me, I have vague protective instincts."