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.
"Yeah, I think there's an adoption program in Godspring. It's just destructible people in Hell that would be bad. You wouldn't have kids right now if they would probably just die, right, you'd wait until it was safer..."
"We're not Elves, we don't stop having lives when there's a war on or anything. But you can go somewhere else and have kids there?"
"Oh, of course, you're at the age where you should just be practicing with little siblings and cousins, sorry, I wasn't sure - I've never seen a daeva before."
Yes! Also, they don't cry, just sort of make faces. When this baby makes a face her daddy gives her a chewable object and she chews it.
He can see why that would be more appealing than human babies. He does not comment on how orcs are obviously well-engineered to be an army of slaves for Melkor, that would be rude.
"What? I don't hear so good, little... wingy... whatever you are," she says.
"Mother's just doing it for the immortality bit, she doesn't need anything," says her son.
"You should probably get angels or fairies, then, the dots have stuff to pay them for their time with. Or do they, are you out or something -"
"They said something about those taking longer and this dot is crowded so they gave us this circle instead. MOTHER YOU CAN SEND HIM BACK NOW."
"What?"
"YOU CAN SEND HIM BACK NOW."
He waits to go back, drops a note to Bright - check wait times on angels and fairies, I wasn't sure if he meant there were long lines to summon or that there are long waits for an answer once you draw a circle -
Wait time averages thirty seconds for fairies, a minute and twenty seconds for angels, which is enough to add up at a crowded dot.
He drops Cam a note. I want to know if that's fewer angels taking summons or just the increase in demand.