He is reading a summoning textbook - it's not as interesting as the electrical engineering textbook but it's just as important and he wants to pester some daeva about the languages spoken in Heaven, Hell, and Fairyland. It has a background chapter on Revelation.
He asks Bar for Cam's obituary.
"These Valar are really good at their jobs. Eru started talking about my narrative arc towards the end."
"Oh, wow, I'm sorry, should have thought of that. He doesn't get involved in things much, mostly holds poetry contests."
"They mentioned. It's fine except for the... implications about all the other Erus."
"Being that they're omnipotent and might object to their narrative getting derailed? - yeah..."
"Well, that and I now have to revise 'mostly noninterventionist' to include 'metaphorically eating popcorn'."
"Ah. Yep, I'm sure all the Erus with horrible nightmare worlds are having a lovely time. You should go reassure Timothy, he's been pacing."
"Oh, I was hoping he'd have stayed upstairs and only had to wait a minute or two -" Where is Timothy?
Watching soul-Elf Fëanor and Nerdanel, who are talking with another This Person Is Definitely A God.
"At least once! They also talked their Eru into contenting himself with tragic literature!"
"Question is how to pull that trick with all the other ones." Squeeze. "And they didn't undemon you or anything?"
"Nope. They're going to work on a war crimes court thing designed for alternate universes and hope I will turn up for that on the optimistic assumption that maybe the court will have a good enough reputation that when I pop out on the other side people will assume it was correct for me to so pop, which would be nice."
"Hope you will turn up for that? So if you don't feel like they've done a good job, you can just - not -"
"Apparently? They said I was free to leave. And that they hoped that when they established the court I might choose to consider myself subject to its jurisdiction."
" - okay." Hug. "We're all stopped-aging - or just super slowed, I think, but it'll do - so we can take our time figuring out what to do for my universe."
"They said a few thousandfold. I feel like this might be awkward if you all don't want to take a few thousand years before going back, it's sort of the reverse of the problem you were expecting."
"Yeah, we discussed it with them, they can also reverse it if we want. I don't think I'll bother but everyone else probably will."
"Well, you're already of age, less benefit to you growing the rest of the way, but I imagine Miranda will want to get around to puberty at some point if only to find out what's all the fuss."
"No doubt. We told them human development in general probably doesn't need delaying, this is just kind of a special case."
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