"Sure." Hard copy latest edition Quenya translation. "One copy or d'you need more?"

"Everyone is watching, this should do. Can we get you anything while we're reading?"

"I'm okay. We brought a Lórien in case your Maitimo - he should pick a time of day, they're all doing times of day for nicknames - wants his memories all put where they belong."

"A time of day. The Valar only got around to a sun about a Year ago, are the other worlds ahead of us?"

"Midnight's is - Midnight you need to name your Arda get on that," he calls over his shoulder, "but it's a variant, and Singularity and Sanity are ahead too but they're a different kind of Arda such that suddenly having a sun is not a historical event, and Mingling's Arda which also needs a name is earlier."

"My King says he's not sure he'll bother with a nickname if any of the others are equipped to take over."

"You want the one who's seven, the one accustomed to Elves having a crime rate and extra-tamper-happy-Valar, the one who's from a world technologically advanced enough that they construct ships that travel between the stars, the one who that and also painful naivete as a side effect of competent Valar, or the magical human teenager?"

"I thought you said there were stupidly many Ardas?"

"Yes, but the only ones we can access on purpose are the technologically advanced kind. All the others we have to wait for someone to walk in the door."

Nod. Reading. "The King says he's glad you get on with the magic human teenager but probably it should be the one who knows his people."

"He is an excellent magic human teenager but yeah. I don't think there's a straight across substitute but he can interview his alts or whatever."

Nod. He finishes the reading. "Thank you. I think the King will want his memories restored and Akibel is married, his husband will want to see him."

"Naturally. Lórien's literally right here so he can do the memories, does Aydanci want Kib brought here or should we bring him to Milliways and if the latter does anybody else want to come?"

"Aydanci's asleep and will want whatever's best for Kib -" but if there's no difference there bringing him here will be easier for us than manufacturing an excuse to go visit -

"...and you can't wake him up...?" You could want to meet your alts and collect valuable multiversal prizes? I'm a little concerned that hauling him here looks plot hooky but he'll come if we bring him.

Maitimo thinks the interdimensional bar looks plothooky but he'll come too. "Aydanci only sleeps when he collapses from pushing the sleep song too far."

"...ah. Okay. Uh, Lórien how close do you need to get to do the memories thing -?"

I would need him to come out of the city.

"We could dispense with the security if you cared to demonstrate that it wouldn't protect us anyway."

"...would you like me to make it rain flower petals over the city or something?"

" - sure."

Assorted lovely flower petals sift down from thin air to lightly blanket the city.

He turns to watch. "All right. We're sending some people to check on Angband and some to check in with Valinor; we will visit the interdimensional bar. Just a minute."

And someone else walks out of the city. "Hello! What a delightful surprise."

"Hullo. Picked a time of day yet? Or something else, we'll run out of times of day eventually, but we can't just all say 'the King' because Midnight's a king too."