"Yeah that'd be the downside, I'd have to update them a bunch. She can have them when she's older I guess."

"They do seem handy for some possible situations." Snuggly baby.

"Mhm! I've also changed them around to be more aimed at knife wounds and brute force and retaining basic vital functions before I can get to you, since those are probably bigger concerns than being able to keep fighting after someone hits you with a laser beam or whatever."

"Probably! I don't even know what that is!"

"A sort of energy thing that some powers provide - they're usually really fast and can have a bunch of different effects while being not very possible to dodge."

"Wow. Yeah, I don't expect to meet any of those. If His Lordship chases us down probably he'll just sing us into a stupor or something."

"You think he might do that?"

"I mean I don't know what exactly he'd do but Maiar are super magical in part because of being really good at singing to Creation so I think it's a good guess."

"Oh, I meant do you think he might track us down?"

"Yeah, maybe one day."

"I can work on some contingencies in case the ones I already have don't work on him. I'm guessing he'll be prepared for the acid I used last time?" 

"I think probably he wouldn't come after us if he weren't?"

"Yeah, I can prepare some more things. Do you have a good understanding of what his abilities are?"

"Not really. Since he can, like, change them, if he has long enough."

"How long?"

"I dunno. Years and years, probably, Ainur are slow."

"Oh that's probably fine then, I'm plenty fast and I'm sure I'll figure out lots of good ways to stop him."

"I could rig up a failsafe in the meantime? Kill all the orcs if we get hurt bad enough, so he won't want to try it."

"I don't think he cares about orcs basically at all."

"Isn't he using them to fight elves?"

"Yeah, but a lot of that is because the Elves hate it even more than they'd hate it if balrogs just showed up and set them all on a lot of fire."

"Why?"

"They don't like having to think about orcs, I think because they're not pretty but it might be more complicated."

"Huh, that sounds like the sort of thing Jack said heroes do, I guess."

"I wouldn't know, what did he say?"

"That they like destroying anything that shocks or offends them or is out of place. So I had to figure out how to make my art work even when that happened."