He sits at the outer edge of the spiral and double checks everything against his paper sketches.

Then he closes his eyes.

"There is no oath. There are no oaths. I destroy. It is not; they are not. I annihilate. It is not; they are not. I erase. It is not; they are not. I void. It is not; they are not. I nullify. It is not; they are not. I extinguish. It is not; they are not. I shrink the world into one without this oath, without these oaths! I destroy, I destroy, I destroy!"

There is the opposite of a flash, a sudden blink of darkness - and Lhinniel can eat apples.

She tries it. She giggles. 

       Check whether you can still make oaths, he instructs her.

She swears off apples again and then tries to eat one.

She can still eat it!

Looks like it does make them stop working, then. Marriage I can't conveniently test - do you happen to know, now that you've done it -

"I don't get feedback exactly, but seeing as I'm still conscious I'd be surprised if I'd failed to except it."

She smiles and eats another bite of her apple. I like your magic! It's very dramatic. And we can free orcs, that's really something.

"It's got its drawbacks, among them 'sounding incredibly evil' and 'eating planets', but yep!"

Maybe the Noldor'll find a way around those, they're good at that. Apple bite. It does sound kind of evil. You can't do it with gentler emphasis?

"Alas no, it is very much about the 'I destroy' thing."

Huh. What powers it, is it like there's - a personality?

"There's not a person, but you could conceptualize it as having a personality. A really really destruction-happy personality."

Giggle. So are you going to kill Morgoth?

"Possibly!"

Would you have to paint him in blood for that?

"It'd help but not being able to do that isn't prohibitive."

Oh good. I don't think he'd sit still for it. I'm not even sure he has a physical form.

       Sometimes he does, someone else says. Orcs sometimes think of him. All black and spiky and scary - he'd love destruction magic -

That would be a catastrophe.

       I am sure we have lots of precautions to prevent it.

"I'd certainly hope so, given the givens."

The King's good about that, she says, finishing her apple. Very paranoid. 

"Good for him."

It must be dangerous to be an important person in your world, if anyone can kill anyone from far away.

"It's not that easy, and most people aren't mages, but yeah."

Cow-handlers remove the cow.

"Thank you!" Cor calls after them.

Of course! 

"Should I be cleaning up here or will someone else handle that -"