"I wouldn't have held up particularly well under mandatory inspection every yeni."

"No one really did."

"Yeah. I - started out by being curious and hopeful, not terrified and angry, I think that was important to getting anywhere. I was yea high and Oromë was taking us all to paradise and I wanted to know what being the sort of thing he was was like - I don't know what kind of first impression your Oromë made but my parents disagreed on whether to go, I broke the tie, I might have stayed behind if it were obvious enough -"

"He scared people pretty badly, but he didn't display any especial propensity for mind-control, as far as I know -"

"Maybe I could've pulled it off. It's not definite though."

"Well. If they can undo the damage they did and we can continue leading independent lives without too much brushing against Elves-who-are-the-thing-they-tried-to-change-us-into then it's all reparable with time, and we have time, now."

Nod.

"Do you not have any sweet harmless fluffy Elves or did those ones just not leave Valinor with you or do the sweet harmless fluffy ones just feel solidarity with their imperfect friends or what?"

" - I mean, we obviously have many many people who wouldn't dream of hurting innocent people for fun, but I don't think we have anyone who had enough faith in Eru and enough trust in authority and enough repulsion at the idea of ever hurting anyone ever -"

"Suppose the picture changes if 'trust in authority' is a target feature, yeah...."

"It's not like we want to have random murders - though I think we do take some pride in not having been successfully rendered harmless, there are people who let me get away with a personal life they'd consider abhorrent because 'well, we're free, we can be abhorrent if we please' - or 'I'm not a Vala, to judge -'"

"Didn't get anywhere on the attitude towards homosexuality even with all the Vala-contempt you have going? - Eru just threw it in because doomed romances are tragic and it was less maintenance than occasionally declaring specific couples star-crossed -"

"Really."

"Yeah. Our Eru has been convinced that it is more fun if he limits his perceptual scope so that he can read books like a normal person."

"Good for you. - anyway, no one's having romances anyway, there's a war on, so I didn't expend a ton of effort on it, beyond observing that with humans it prevents the accidental children and people had better not discourage anything at all that did that."

"Oh, clever."

"They're very good about it. I think it might eventually spill over."

Nod.

And he settles back and keeps reading.

"Can we put circles everywhere we want synced, leave the door closed so more people can maybe wander in..."

"Yeah, good idea. Who wants to complete a circle, should it be for somebody else on the criminal list or would that be too complicated if they showed up..."

"What kind of binding have you been doing?"

"The summonee would not be able to hurt anybody, destroy property, etcetera, but I didn't put a gag in and they could travel around, so they might upset Elves."

"If you are very confident they couldn't find a clever way to hurt people I doubt contact with someone who committed - whatever sort of crimes these tend to be - will be more upsetting than the existence of the multiverse at all - what sort of crimes are these -"

"Uh, the list has murderers and rapists on it, I don't want to do indefinite binding summonses for art fraud or airspace violations, but I could probably find something middling?"