They circle the planet and look at the architecture. They are somewhat disappointed.
"Maybe the aliens think they're pretty," someone says dubiously.
"No," someone else says. "Some things are universal."
"Maybe the aliens are all blind."
"That makes more sense."
"Well we have to pick somewhere."
This place has a lovely large statue-garden-monument thing that Elves would not go out of their way to avoid if it were in Tirion, though they'd probably walk through it quickly. They go for that one.
"Oh, uh, when I say I went to Mandos what I mean is I died. Which isn't a big deal, remember, for Elves."
"So that's why it took me a while. Had to make me a new body and everything. I asked for hair that was more resilient to decontamination shampoo and Mandos said 'sure', though I'm not going back to Calado any time soon."
"Not existing, unless Mandos runs your chip to scold you, and that's like - only having one sense and it's not quite osanwë but it's closer to that than anything else."
"It's - hmmm. It's a little bit like having a lot of phone lines and televisions in your head you can tune if you want to."
"Yes. He wanted to fix whatever was wrong with me that made me want to do that. I said I really thought it was something wrong with Calado. We compromised."
"He got to fuck around with my head but I got to remember exactly how it was earlier and why I liked it that way, and to have the opinion that he has no business fucking with peoples' heads."
"Uh, if that situation arises again I wouldn't be able to do the same thing. I could have Tyelcormo do it for me, though, Mandos isn't very imaginative about restricting people from murder. - to be fair I'm not sure he'd ever had to do it before. Elves are not easily moved to murder. I think he might also have fucked around with my willingness to break Valinor's rules about sex and blasphemy and so on but I haven't had occasion to check - Amenta is a wholly sufficient rebuttal of Eru's benevolence - no, that's still okay -"
"...dooooo you have that one or should I go straight into wondering what shampoo-resistant hair is like?"
"I - uh - maybe have that thing?" He looks torn. " - I think I find it really upsetting to think about breaking that rule without, like, wanting you any less, good job Mandos."
"Yeah slightly! Gosh, who knew murdering people with no effort to cover for it could inconvenience you."
"Pretty much all but said they'd do it again if they got another chance. They might get another chance. It'll be a long time before all the reds are safe."
"Yeah. But it's nice here." Pause. "So how mean would it be for me to tease you about the sex rule thing."
"If you tease too much I could always just carry you off and marry you."
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