"Some universe might have resurrection of humans."

"I'm more optimistic than I was this morning."

"Us as well."

Someone steps in to bring them dinner. It is an unfamiliar soup and meat and vegetable thing. It smells delicious.

"You're pretty sure I'm the same kind of thing as your humans and they can eat this?"

"I cannot discern any differences, though they could be subtle ones. Our humans can eat this."

"I'll call it good." Soup! "I would like some paper and writing material."

"I will have them brought!"

"Thanks."

"Talk more in the meantime? What's your world like, what did you do..."

"I did magic! We didn't know it was a problem - we knew the disappearance points disappeared stuff but didn't realize how fast it would get so we just chucked things we didn't want into them, no one was going to miss some rock supplemented with garbage. The world has about a billion people and we're all humans and there's a ton of languages - I know two, the one I'm teaching you and a sort of creole of a bunch of world languages that's spoken in Gatesnest as a kind of trade language."

"What sorts of things was magic used for?"

"Healing, demolishing buildings, making gates, weeds, cleaning, it used to be used for weather but we did figure out we shouldn't disappear water in huge quantities even before we knew magic was generally a catastrophe."

"But no one could measure how much was disappearing per use?"

"No. You aim them at the ground. After a while they hit molten rock, but no one was measuring very exactly."

"This sounds rather like a magic system specifically tailored to be hard on humans."

"Would it be more convenient for Elves somehow?"

"We find it more natural to plan a few thousand years ahead and have more tools to solve coordination problems."

"Just the telepathy, or...?"

"We can also bindingly commit to things in an easily verifiable manner."

"Huh."

"It's the way Melkor enslaves his soldiers. As soon as they're old enough to talk he has them bindingly commit to obey him."

"Wow that's intensely fucked up."

"I am glad we agree on that."

"It is sort of a catch-22 that I would have to take your word on that."

"We could get you orcs, it'd just be the recoverable kind of lethal for the orcs."