Aitim gestures around the room in frustration. "Of course I don't believe that."

"Why did you make her immortal," Miranda asks the space Elves.

"Well we took all Voa's reds so the bigotry didn't matter and her probable successors were a real piece of work and she helped with - oh, I haven't even gotten to the meat of the story -"

And he explains about Melkor and Sauron's attempted pollution hysteria shenanigans and how he died and they were discovered and rearrested.

"Wow," says Grey Peka.

"We got lucky, hearing what happened here on magic Arda only ten Years down the road."

"You're assuming that'd match too?"

"I mean, parts would have to be different - no fighting over sailboats - but I have no reason to expect our Melkor didn't plan to eventually destroy Valinor, kill the King, leave everything in havoc and flee to Endorë to start a war, just like this one did."

"You could fight over the starships."

"It would literally be a shoving match. - or the modified welding tools, I suppose. Their world had bows and arrows for hunting; ours has nothing."

"Wizards issue deadly weapons to eleven year olds and has them use them to heat breakfast, so it's sort of hard to imagine needing somebody attacked and not having anything handy."

"I have never needed anybody attacked!"

"It's such a good thing your worlds have Valar or alien contact would be a catastrophe."

"Yeah, ouch."

"We could pick it up, I think, at need. The magic ones conducted a war quite effectively given their tech level."

"That's true. Telepathy must be so helpful for war."

"Helpful in general. Someone's trying to figure out if artifact magic can give osanwë to people without it."

"I think Beka must have liked being telepathic, Kat talks about it sometimes."

"I really can't imagine living without it."

"I'm glad I landed with Occlumency," mutters Miranda.

"What will you say to our Avalor if you meet her - she doesn't know you -"

"And knows you and doesn't like you very much. I think I'd tell her how our Voa's doing and then explain from the start."

"Maybe she'll assume a blue version of Maitimo is more likable anyway or something," says Pink Peka.

"It might help!"

And they pick up the story. " - so Sauron was recaptured but Maitimo was dead, and -"

" - wait really? You kind of barely mentioned -"