"Now you're just being greedy."

"You owe me big, sweetheart, I taught you how to kill Melkor."

"For which I acknowledge that I owe you what I promised, not indefinite arbitrary - ugh, look, how good's your memory?"

"Excellent."

"Usually people need a mage along to make sure they don't fuck it up but if I can just tell you how and you can memorize the steps maybe you can go on your own."

"Don't wanna come?"

"It is so cold on that planet."

"I can keep you warm."

"So can I, I just don't want to do unnecessary magic, also please stop vaguely hitting on me if you're doing that, aforementioned trauma. Look, if you're not accidentally going to chant something the wrong number of times you don't need me."

"Maybe I just like your company."

"I'm sure you do, but I don't want to accompany you."

"What's the procedure?"

"I can land you nearish a point. The spell doesn't have great aim but you can fly, you'll be able to find it, they're hard to miss. You stare at it - which is kind of unpleasant - and whenever you're about to look away you say 'I am a force of destruction', and then you can look away for a second, till you've done that fifteen times. Might take you longer than a human if you have better tolerance for looking at disappearance points. Then you walk around it - flying over it should be fine too - and do the same thing from the other side, then you go a quarter of the way around clockwise, same thing, then from the opposite side from there. You go back to your starting point, you - there's some ash, in these little camp things, not that far from each point, you should take some of that, at home you'd normally just bring your own - go back to your starting point, throw in some ash, say 'I invoke the concept of fire' -"

He goes on like that for a while.

She listens.

"- whereupon the disappearance point should be pleasant enough to look at and then you'll be able to do the spell back here. I can come get you if you're not back by tomorrow? Not like you're going to freeze."

"Uh huh. All right, you can send me there."

"I'll go get a sheep."

She follows, flapping.

He heads sheepward. You warned all the existing mages, right? I'm going to try to land it directly in a point and if I don't manage that it'll waste a while and then be stuck unless it manages to figure it out.

Yeah, warned everyone. How long would you need to come up with a way to kill it -

It's in disguise, that makes it way harder unless we can identify who it usually is.

Sauron is a good candidate but let's not gamble our lives on that if we can avoid it. If you send it directly to the point it'll just - go?

The spell honestly doesn't have very good aim. It will probably get eaten if I send it into a point but I can't guarantee that on either level.

Okay.

Sheep. Blood. Painting the Maia pretending to be Thuringwethil.

Chanting.