"I mean I have to take your word for the existence of the oathy thing. Unless the orcs would voluntarily confirm that for some reason, I guess."

"Maybe if you found the right angle on them? Not if they thought it'd be helpful to us, certainly."

"I'm not really a skilled interrogator, let alone in whatever orcs speak."

"Then I wouldn't expect it to come out in conversation, no."

Sigh.

"Should I give you some time to think about who you might want to talk to and so on?"

"Can you check my thoughts thing?"

"You mean by trying to read you?"

"Unless you have another way to do it."

"We do not." Pause. "I can tell you're there but I'm not getting specific content off you."

"Hiding I'm there is a separate thing? -" Now he's not there.

"There are lots of things -" access to your senses - osanwë is often used to look through someone's eyes, knowledge of their presence, thoughts, memories, sensations. "That changed it."

Translation. "Good. Hopefully I can keep it up."

"Yep! That'd make communication substantially easier!"

"Not that I am not incredibly impressed with you but I would like to be able to communicate with more than one person! So yay."

"Lots of people should have a passable grasp, I've been forwarding them instructions. But it does seem like it'll be easier for you to investigate things if you can talk to everyone."

"Oh, who-all else is interested?"

"All of the linguists I know are of course delighted, the King and his advisors are probably getting updates for more -" pragmatic - "reasons, couple people are paying attention specifically in order to notice if anything's messing with my head - can't be too careful with foreign magic -"

"Yeah, I suppose you have a similar taking my word for things problem if I assure you I can't suddenly do anything nor do I know how to do anything subtle and mental. Some people can - delete memories, is the most common thing - but it's discouraged."

"The Enemy can do that. Delete them, add fake ones. Only to people in his custody, not at range, thankfully."

"I definitely can't add fake ones, that wouldn't be in keeping with the magic-is-for-destroying-shit theme."

"Which we're also taking your word for but in a much weaker sense, the story's oddly crafted to conceal memory-tampering of all things. I'm not really worried, but the King's paranoia has saved us all several times over, I'll let him have it."

"Sure, I'm not like offended or anything."

"Oh good. We'll probably be a bit nervous when you draw up your ritual blood but we won't stop you, there's no reason to think there's anything to your mission beyond what you said."

"It will be completely harmless except for the associated, uh, world-destruction."