He will try to help with the summoning demand problem! By taking summonses, that is.

Plenty of Godspring, some Ardas, some Revelation.

And back to Milliways he goes. "Next concordance is Fairyland and coming up, right? If we can get something from Limbo out then the flat Arda Valar can portal in..."

"How recently from Fairyland would it have to be, Hell has some indestructible curiosities from before trains were invented... they'd be unpopular to take but not hard to look at."

"No idea."

"Well, that'd be the thing to know."

"What would?" asks Karen, heading in to collect breakfast from Bar. "...Hi, Minor."

" - hi. How recently from a world something needs to be for the Valar to portal to it. So we can go to Limbo."

"Oh. Cool."

Nod. "How have you been."

"I'm fine."

" - okay."

...breakfast. Breakfast is fascinating.

Okay. He leaves Ambela a note asking how recently of a place the Valar need a thing to be.

And Ambela inquires.

...they're not sure, sorry.

Well, there is a Limbo imported harp known to be in such and such a place if they want to go look at it.

They go look at it; can't get a portal.

There's a Fairyland concordance soon but they will need to go alongside a very fast train designed to take up all of the space in the concordance.

They can be immaterial, that should not interfere with very fast train. Also that's an impressive work of engineering on the Limboites side to have a concordance-length of fast-moving train's worth of tracks, how did they build them?

The daeva worlds ferried them materials during pre-train concordances.

They'll have someone portal-capable in Fairyland once it's time.

And Ambela reports this to whom it may concern.

"Summoning shortage is a real problem. The set of my fathers who are working on that think they might have an angle on non-Milliways interworld transit that doesn't require access to both worlds already, but we can't do anything for those worlds once we find them, not at a rate even vaguely resembling the rate we'd need. And there are another couple Ardas coming up on the parole of Melkor to intervene in."

"At least Ardas at that age don't have humans and aren't so urgently in need of summoning."