The Valar announce that they've done as much as they can in Singularity (they can't bring back peoples' babies in that critical period either, but they can get them earlier versions) and are setting up portals between there and Sanity as soon as they are confident they've cleaned up the plague. A bunch of Elf architects have this wild idea for a fivedimensional city where alternating intersections are interdimensional portals between various Valinors and they get eagerly to setting it up.
"The difference is me and him got summoned and it was terrible and we decided not to do it again, and you kidnapped some people and it was terrible and you're not doing a thing about that."
"I just fucking bet. And in the meantime we rot here till we take a summon you, master of communication skills and knowing what is okay to do with people, says is good for us!"
I didn't say it's good for you, I told you exactly what it does. You can look at the circle in advance if you would like.
"...If you wanna let me watch somebody draw me a circle that'd do it, I could match up when I feel it and when it's drawn and know it was the one."
Perfect. I'll send you home and you can watch someone draw up the circle. Let me find someone willing to do it.
Great. She asks someone in Valimar to draw a few circles and her soul alt for another viewing portal and then they can both go home.
And home they go.
Jake was not following this conversation and wants to know what happened to them.
I don't know whether you object to the deal or don't believe I'd follow through or just want to not cooperate with anything about the situation.
Hostages demon offers again to go wherever Varda would like if she can arrange for the book to be there.