"And the old countries, or do they seem a bit less relevant?"

"They seem less relevant. They're trying to turn into a federated thingy."

"I'm glad some good can come out of the whole thing."

"Yeah. And they checked and they can bring back people who died to disappearance."

"Oh good. And the Thuringwethil you maged was actually Thuringwethil?"

"Yeah."

"Oh good."

"And my spell is now state of the art for portable Melkor destruction. The previous solution caused the Melkor's sudden absence to sink Beleriand under the sea."

"Huh. I am - vaguely vindicated that we put so much effort into preparing, though we'd have been in bad shape had it come to that. Are all the yous destruction-maged up?"

"No. I told them how but they don't need to be as long as I'm handy. Specialization."

"I'd expect yous to want more magic just for fun. Are they magic-saturated?"

"There's a lot going around, they don't all pick everything up. And they're busy so they prefer kinds with less of a learning curve."

"Fair. Have they already eradicated everything eradicable everywhere or are some mages going to hop around doing that too?"

"Except for the Melkor and Sauron who ran away to possibly-Materia-or-an-accessory-world they're all accounted for, although I might get called in to kill the one the Valar still have locked up in Telperion."

"Have you met all your alts?"

"Most of them. Haven't gotten to Loki or Golden yet."

"What are they like?"

"...they're like me. I'm not sure what answer you have in mind. You've met Tireh - we think she's the female version of my face like Kib and Cam are the male version of the most common girl face - and you met Kib -"

"Midnight said that Cam is, for a you, unusually unwilling to assume authority and inclined to load-share on decisionmaking and Loki is unusually extraverted and Kib twitchy and Tireh impatient -"

"That's not like, an inherent Cam trait, he has issues from having destroyed a planet. And Kib was in Angband. Tireh may be inherently impatient. Uh, T'Mir's really - calm... Most of them it's easier to think in terms of what has happened to them than in what the results are, finding adjectives is hard."

"He didn't quite use those words, he sent impressions."

"I don't think I have anything coherently sendable. I just go, oh, if I had Butterfly's life story, what would be next, and then I know what she's likely thinking."

"I'm glad you have them."

"They're great."

"Anything I can do for you while you're here?"