" - no. I can imagine avoiding them but not avoiding all of this, this is great. - might be kind of path-dependent, for mes."

Nod. 

"Thuringwethil found you," Cor mentions. "She has my magic. Was that a terrible idea or is she as okay as she seems -"

" - Kib doesn't like his, I think Loki likes hers, lots of them are dead. I can ask a - I can ask someone who knows one of them well enough to hazard a guess."

"Yeah. I owed her a favor."

"I don't think the reasons for disliking her are related to her being prone to random violence or dishonesty."

"That's good, those would be the reasons to worry."

Nod. "And in this neighborhood your magic's far from the scariest stuff around."

"I haven't told you what it does."

"My Maitimo ended his war by having a planet fed into a black hole."

"Yeah, I haven't told you what my magic system does."

"Even if it's more destructive than daeva we're still next to Edda, but go ahead."

"It destroys things. As a byproduct of destroying specified things, it also dumps additional destruction into 'disappearance points'. My planet is being eaten by same, they were growing - or rather shrinking - faster than projected. We're evacuating people into our Arda's south continent."

" - if you want infrastructure down there or somewhere else for them to go we can do that, and in those files are the teleport so you can evacuate them faster. Would adding all that matter back save the planet or is it too late?"

"Infrastructure and somewhere else to go would be good. Adding matter won't hurt but it also warps space, the planet has punctures."

"Have you checked if it works here?"

"I haven't but Thuringwethil came back and told us about this place. She had to go through the empty planet we're using for disappearance points though."

"- so plausibly any other inhabited planets in the whole neighborhood are also in the process of getting eaten, or have gotten eaten already?"

"If they use magery, yes."

"Any reason not to check right away -"

"The reason I said Sauron might be dead is because he impersonated Thuringwethil to try to get magery and I tried to drop him on a disappearance point but my aim may have been off and he has a fake ritual but if he stumbled on a functional one he'd be a mage and has seen the transit spell."

"- we will have Cam check that urgently and then we will go check whether your unfriendly magic system has fucked over anyone else in the neighborhood. Also resurrections of people who died in a mass catastrophe are straightforward but can perhaps wait until you have somewhere for them to go."

"You can do that?"

"We can do approximately anything, some of 'em we can't scale."

"Finding out our planet was dying was preceded by a war, my parents died."