Several people hover anxiously in case Beka is forced to try anything.

Nope!

"Why are you tied up?"

"I am doing the prisoner thing again."

"Why."

"'Cause I swore stuff. You know better, I was real dumb."

"I know better," nods Kat. "They wanted me to swear a thing to go a place and I said no and YELLED."

"Good girl!"

"We were trying to get them all somewhere safe but Kat had been taught very well!"

"There are more mes and more yous and more of Cá-no and two of the yous and two of the Cá-nos have more kids and the yellow mama's ones are small," reports Kat.

"A yellow me?"

"Yes. The other ones are a pink one and a white one."

"Gosh."

"And there is a big peach me and a little peach me and a little yellow me."

"Did you have fun?"

"Yes and I win all the yelling contests."

No one interferes with happy reunion! 

"What stuff did you swear when you were being dumb," says Kat.

"I said I wouldn't help Elves. Then I forgot all about it and helped Elves anyway but then I remembered," she says, definitely to Kat and not to any Elves who might be listening.

That's actually quite manageable if that's it. Still maybe worth fucking with her memories but - okay all on its own -

"I'm not an Elf," says Kat.

"You are not! I can help you. Do you need any help?"

Kat thinks about that. "No I think I am okay just be my mama."

"I will sure do that."

"You can't hug me if you are tied up," Kat observes.

"Yeah."

"I'm gonna untie you."

"Okay."

Kat starts picking at knots.

Wizards can help with that.

And then an untied alive Beka can hug her Kat!

"So what is going on," says Beka, Kat in her lap, still shivering now and then as physical sensations (!!!) assert themselves.

"Uh. We don't really know why anything happened, just that it did. But -" the Ways and the war and the Amentans and space Elves and the other Bekas and other Kats -

"...uh, wow."

"Yup."

"Well thank you for aliving me Mandos was so boring."

"I am so sorry you were dead at all and glad to have you back."

"It wasn't worse than the oath problem -" She stops short of being reassuring he is an Elf and she cannot help him.

...nod. "The wizards can erase memories. The concern is that the specific memory is five years old and we don't know whether they'd also have to erase intervening stuff. The Valar could maybe erase memories more delicately but we're waiting to see how mad they are about the theft. And the engineers are trying to replicate the worlds-travel thing in which case maybe have more options. Once I'm gone you can maybe talk with the humans about what you want."

Nod. Snuggle of Kat.

He watches them for a while and then leaves so they can all talk properly.

"So hi it's nice to meet you all."