"I'm so sorry. Tell us where and when and we'll get them back."

"Where and when they died?"

"No, just where and when you want them to wake up."

"...I think I can wait till the planet's evacuated."

"Okay. That should be this afternoon. We'll also have someone explain to the Valar how to do their jobs, deoath all the orcs - since it's an evil Arda maybe deoath some Elves also -"

"You should do that, yes."

"And last time we kind of screwed up contact with the evil Maitimo, we might confer on how to do better. You can participate in that if you'd like of course but you shouldn't feel obliged."

"How did you screw it up?"

"I wasn't even in contact with them all back then but as I recall they were getting along well with him, heard rumors, called in a different Maitimo to figure out what was going on - the evil one asked the decent one to cover for him, the decent one dropped the nearest heavy object on his head and then had a panic attack - uh, usually Maitimos get captured during the war and spend fifty years in Angband and have - twitchiness - around the sort of thing that their evil alt gets up to."

"...uh-huh."

" - the people who get released from Angband aren't -"

"They don't get released their Findekános go in on a suicide mission to kill them and then get an opening to get them out alive and they're catastrophically fucked up by it and they're still not evil, we really don't know what the fuck went wrong with yours."

Sigh. "He seemed really nice till he - didn't."

He shivers. "Uh, Bells usually vote not to murder them but they'd probably defer to you if you think murdering them is a good idea."

"Um."

"Oh?"

"I. May have slightly murdered him? I mean. He's alive. Just."

"Slightly murdered."

"Slightly. It's complicated. I feel really bad about it actually it was a misunderstanding that pushed me over the edge there."

" - well. If you want him murdered that can be accomplished and if you want him ...less murdered that can also be accomplished probably -"

"I put a disappearance point on his head."

He sends a mental image.

...he giggles. "Well. Can those be removed?"

"In theory you could dig it out. Or he could lose the body, if he could get a new one."

"The reasonable Mandos usually hands people back no problem but I don't know what he'd do with an evil Maitimo. If we can dig it out we will probably just do that."