"I hope it gets somewhere."

"I expect it will eventually. I think he might have gotten there on his own, eventually, without the war hanging over all our heads, and it can only help to have more people - well, that's not true, it could easily hurt, but I think you know what you're doing."

"I try. Feel entirely free to tell me if I steer wrongly."

"Oh, I will."

Hug.

Hug. "Yours are - they're okay, they're good parents..."

"They are, they're such good parents, the children are happy and safe and beloved."

"Thank you." Hug.

"You're welcome."

And she goes and finds her husband and basks in being in a functional loving relationship.

He feels very appreciated despite having no idea why!!

Meanwhile, Cam runs ecological simulations to see just how many butterflies he can cram into this planet. It seems appropriate for there to be a shit ton of butterflies.

"What're you up to?"

"Terraforming planning! Editing from Mars plans because they don't want to import animals, so it all has to work with bugs and stuff only."

"It looks lovely. Why aren't they importing animals -"

"No Valar to babysit them and make sure that they don't get parasites or whatever."

"- very funny -"

"No, seriously, that's why, it would make them sad if they brought in bunnies and the bunnies reproduced as bunnies do and then ninety percent of their offspring died because they ate all the grass or because there were also imported hawks."

"I see. Animals on Valinor and Endorë are prevented from doing this?"

"Apparently! I can't say I ever paid much attention to the fauna on my Arda, I'm not sure if it was extended to Endorë there."

"I'm impressed that you can even have fauna at all with that much - uh, management, or whatever. Are they going to want to do it everywhere?"

"I am not aware of it being a priority."

"I'm really trying to be broad-minded here, I do think most of all this moral progress was in the direction of, well, genuine good. But - what a resource-intensive thing to do. How does an all-bug ecosystem go?"

"Right now I'm working on pollinators, cutting out anything that needs birds or bats for that. Bees and butterflies."

"This is for the portal planet?"

"Yup."