"Like what?"

"Doesn't think he's out -"

"He pretends, for most people."

"They kill themselves eventually, in the standard timeline."

"Doesn't help in or out, not for an Elf -"

"Yeah. I don't really understand."

"Does get you out of whatever hallucination usually."

"So maybe he just - thinks it's a particularly bad one?"

"Sure, maybe that'd do it."

"Can I recommend you books or movies or something?"

"Movies?"

"Like plays but we found a way to capture them so you can watch them later."

"Sure. Why not."

He recommends him a bunch of movies. "They're Sanity so mostly tragic."

"What a clear inference that is."

"Oh, uh, we asked our Eru the fuck his deal was and he said 'oh, I just find heartbreak really narratively compelling thus Melkor' and we talked him into crippling himself enough he could just, like, enjoy sad books. So now he does that."

"Ah-huh."

"I can ask Cam to recommend human movies, you might like them better."

"Okay."

He pulls up a computer and messages Cam. 

Movie recommendations for Kib? He is back and caught as up to speed as he seems to have any interest in.

Cam comes up with a list.

"Do you have a computer yet, Kib?"

"What's that?"

"Future technology that plays movies and other things."

"Well, no, I don't have one."