You will have to be more specific.

So he specifies - something from Revelation that is a historical overview, something on wizards, selected writings of Arda humans once they showed up -

Bar gives him titles Fertile Crescent, Fertile Sphere and An Historie of Witchcraft and needs more specificity on what sort of Arda he wants to survey.

He reads. "Okay," he says a while later. "I don't know how much screening you did for Vala-traits - or how you're expecting them to handle everything - and my guesses will be a hundred forty Years out of date - they'll definitely fix it, no question, and make summoning a little friendlier and set out some ground rules for it - they might want to visit your daeva worlds and make forking people more difficult - but from there it kind of depends why all of the alternate universe versions are so incompetent, whether it's a resource gap or a values one -

- and I can put bounds on how they'll react to the black hole thing but I don't know."

"Previous guesses included 'summary execution', which would be one thing if they didn't also interdict summoning again for the mortals on Endorë, is the lower bound higher than that."

" - yes, what the fuck, even if you'd done it for fun that wouldn't be on the table. - I can see them interdicting summoning if they can't figure out how to make it any safer, though that'd be surprising, and they'd fix your aging species anyway - why are there even aging sapients, what a terrible idea -"

"Nobody consulted me on the subject."

"They should get a refund from whoever they did consult, all of these worlds are horrible and everyone back home is going to be completely appalled. Anyway, they've got Melkor a nice VR setup where he can engage in as much imaginary torture and wanton destruction as he pleases, even if I presume this to be full of outright lies - and I'm not assuming that, but I'm giving myself lower confidence than usual I'd notice if I were being lied to, since you have mes - anyway, unless there are some sharp limits on their capacity to act outside our home dimension no one is going to die and definitely no one is going to be executed.

And we might need some kind of war crimes procedure given how many war crimes there are, but they'll firstly make a point of not acting in any way that would have disincentivized you from asking them for help and secondly think you made a sensible call and thirdly don't believe in executing people at all. 

I'm not promising they won't overreact - I don't think so, but it's been a hundred forty Years and we've never dealt with anything like this - but. The worst overreaction I could conceive of would be putting bounds on the making-stuff and keeping you in a dimension where they could enforce those."

"Which would be an overreaction."

"Yes, I realize that, I said I'm giving you bounds. You - you were going to try to get help from - I just want to give you both a hug - you're allowed to expect better of the universe -"

"I try to manage my expectations in such a way that I won't be floored with astonishment every time I leave my room."

"Fair enough. Well. Let me know when you'd like your door."

"...is there anything we should have squared away here first -"

"- depends what you're doing here, honestly -"

"Various experiments on how things interact with other things, my next to-do item was genetic testing on the wizards to see if that's just plain genetic because if so maybe Timothy's little brother who turned into a demon could do magic again with a stem cell transfusion and sufficient mental discipline."

"Need to be here in particular for any of those?"

"Timothy's little brother doesn't know what a stem cell is yet but for the testing part no. You think I should come with you?"

"No but it's possible they'll want you later, or can do demon-containing things but not in Milliways and will prefer to set up a portal of their own to your world and then ask you to leave -"

"I've been staying here to keep the door to my Arda so I can go back and reembody more Elves but if they're doing that all I'm doing is making it easy to pause and run time in the daeva worlds and Revelation and another daeva could do that."

"And that isn't straightforwardly wrapped up, I take it?"

"One of your alts is in Revelation preparing to open diplomatic relations."

"I'm not in a hurry, but it doesn't sound like there's anything in particular you'd want to be doing before I start."

"If there's a nonzero chance I will be exiled somewhere I should say goodbye to Miranda. And Timothy."

"Okay."

So Cam goes up to where Timothy is sleeping.