Shrug. "Just guesswork. We can see if deoathed ones can pick it up."

"I didn't warn anybody back home about the possibility, I'll put it in the next letter."

"I don't think they spontaneously will. Not that it's not worth a mention."

"I was assuming they had the same facts you were using to speculate."

"I don't know if your typical orc knows that orcs are descended from Elves or anything about how Elf osanwë works and they certainly don't know the mental practices involved in employing it, or they'd know the privacy thing."

"Gotcha."

"But the information should be available on your world anyway, there are probably Maiar on the south continent."

"And they might read minds to find out people's intentions toward their geese!"

"I am sure they would think nothing of it!"

"Bleh."

"Osanwë's a great tool when everyone knows how to engage with it. We'll get there."

"Oh yeah it's dead useful, just, wrong defaults."

"A thing it has in common with lots of Elf features!"

"Lots of them?"

"Marriage is useful but with lousy defaults, oaths..."

Nod.

"We were very carefully designed but I'm not sure it was with our wellbeing in mind." Sigh.

"I wonder what was."

"Maybe someday we'll find out. Have they had any other successful scouting missions -"

"Last I heard one guy made it back from a place he jumped a week ago, he landed in a sea and was injured and dehydrated by the time he washed up on land but then managed to find space to paint."

"That's something - inhabited?"

"Don't know yet. He didn't meet anyone or see anything artificial but you have to check more places than one random beach."

Nod.

"We can't even be completely sure about the one we're already using but everywhere on it we've landed is frigid, just barely breathable, and devoid of even plants, so probably fine."

"Elves could maybe scout faster, better vision."