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 schedulers are typically people close to those they're scheduling; I don't think it will be hard to convince them that their redmages should be a little better off." Pause. "My retired redmage is considerably more dwindled than they are usually allowed to get and may not be able to carry on much of a conversation even with a necklace. He has - some words, more when he's touching someone, but..."
" - we have people who can read minds, if that is something you or people close to him think he would consent to -"
"I don't think he'd mind," says Iamica. "He was never a private person - he liked telling secrets but only because people like hearing them -"
"I... think he can understand most of what I say if it's not too complicated, as long as I'm touching him and gesturing a lot, but only for a moment, not long enough to really think about it."
Iamica reports that he put one on Wiar and he cried and remembered her name and didn't want to let her go.
"He seemed to know more about what was going on, it's only that what's going on is he can barely remember anything -"
"We don't actually know how many people it was, the ones who showed up can't have been all. The Revel House didn't keep records. It might have to be an astonishingly good necklace."
"Not very long. They did have records before, of people who wanted a redmage - they'd been trying to get one for years - they destroyed them all after they had them all told there was one in -
- the Queen had it burned to the ground."
"- anyway I'm not sure if he'd rather have the necklace or just be more confused, but I don't think he'd have minded being mind-read."
"Iamica, my cousin Findekáno. He can project everything to you as he goes, you or Wiar can tell him to stop..."
"I - I never know quite how careful I ought to be to avoid leaving him alone and as the children get older and can't just rotate in all the time it might matter more."