"I do vaguely regret that we don't have the credibility to suggest cleaning - the Valar could probably do it but I don't see how we'd ever get buy-in -"

"Yeah the going around calling it collective insanity makes you not credible when proposing solutions. People believed us that it mattered to us, that's why they gave us a chance when we said we could solve it."

"And there's Miolee," says Shasali. "Evalee was frightening its reds, they took some blue children hostage and demanded passage to Anitam and decontamination there, and then they got some rainforest nobody wanted and built a country on it."

"Wow!" says Pink Peka.

"We put everyone in Endorë and I think they're doing pretty well there but that's - resourceful, given you only had the one very spoken-for planet -"

"Yeah, no kidding," says Peka. "Even if it had to be in the rainforest - I don't mind permaspring very much but most people would -"

"I've never tried it," says Grey Peka.

"It's not so bad! At least not with a slowed down Katin, I might be having trouble once she's older."

"And we can't have kids," he says regretfully.

" - I mean if you want -"

- Pink Peka giggles.

"Maybe you'll get an Ana and an Elemi, since Rebecca did," says Grey Peka.

"It's really weird how that worked out."

"The whole thing is really weird."

"Are there more of any of the rest of us or is it just Kantil's blood relatives plus Peka and kiddos for some reason," says Isama.

"My kingdom has, as far as we can tell, a superset of the magical Maitimo's kingdom's Elves. It doesn't have a you, I would have noticed, but it's possible there's other overlap I haven't picked up yet."

Ladah is looking slightly curiously at Other Dads.

They are so pleased to meet him! They are impressed Telkam is okay honestly his world sounds like it would really suck for him in particular.

"He doesn't super like being green, that's how he met Aunt Peka."

"It's the worst caste, hands down - I guess being blue woulda been worse."

"Yeah, Oromë kind of kept me sane."

"At least people are safe now. It's been kinda okay since the massacres stopped."

"Massacres?"

Oh boy can he give a detailed account of the fiascos in Olvala and Biyan and Evalee.

They are so horrified.

"Blue Maitimo what were you even doing with your life -"

"Everything I could - Anitam doesn't have a royal family I didn't have absolute power and wouldn't have won if I'd started wars everywhere -"

"And, like, they're kinda gross, wouldn't touch them, wouldn't start a war over them -"

"You've all made it very clear that you don't think the pollution thing has anything at all to it."

"He was helpful," says Tiko.

"And Isel, Isel's great, Miolee's going to build her a statue," says Shasali.