" - oooooh good idea. You won't have the main benefit of the internet which is the billions of people using it but we could have it."

"The billions of people using it is important," says Isama.

"I know that!! But something's better than nothing and it sounds like all the possible avenues home involve magic rather than engineering."

" - there might an engineering angle. But internet first - internet and then immortality for all the mortals present and then interdimensional transit -"

" - and then we go fix everything everywhere!"

"Without assuming that the fix is 'pretend your populace is made of Elves'!"

"I want to go home," says Isama, "my sister will be all alone, I think this is higher priority than making us immortal -"

"Apef will wonder where I am but -"

"Apef isn't like Klimati, Klimati needs help and she's going to miss Hala and Kaloa desperately."

"Unless the Valar here are cooperative I really don't see any way of getting us home quickly -"

" - they're really angry at us for massacreing a lot of people, actually."

" - this is inconsistent with what I have heard of Elves!"

" - it is in defense of Elves the only atrocity in Elven history. Uh, we were trying to get out of Valinor to land our army in Beleriand before the cities were lost and all their inhabitants captured for Melkor to torture, and the Valar told us to relax and stay home and trust that things would work out, and the Teleri controlled the port and boats to get out of Valinor and we asked to borrow them and asked for help building our own and asked for access to information about boatmaking and they turned us down and so we tried to secretly steal the boats and they fought back."

- nod. "And when was the massacre -"

"Uh, that."

" - we don't conventionally employ the word for 'two armed sides fighting' - no one, like, got the boats and then got carried away and flung their unarmed crews overboard?"

"No!"

"No one was trying to deal with a sniper firing on their position and accidentally called in an airstrike on an elementary school being used as a bomb shelter?"

" - I don't know those words but I really don't think so."

"In that case it does sound an Elfy massacre."

"It's not funny - thousands of people died -"

"And have since been resurrected?"

" - well, yes -"

"And did you get here in time -"

"Took the whole continent back in twelve days and there wasn't a civilian death after that though it took us decades, and help, to actually win."

"Congratulations, then."

"Beka died."