Cor gets to work on his Melkor-destroying spell!

Was she useful? 

Oh yeah, very, lots of highly aesthetic detail.

Oh good. Scared us pretty badly - didn't do anything but send you the information, right?

Was she supposed to? She wished me luck... how did she scare you?

She was not supposed to do anything else. She showed up at the gates - we've got protections against Maiar meandering around our city, obviously - and swore to some nonsense and said she'd speak directly to you. I didn't think she'd murder you but -

I am unmurdered.

Hadn't escaped me. Does the new information help you evaluate whether what we've got will work -

It could have told me one way or the other but instead it confirmed 'maybe'."

Figures. All right. Good skill.

Way ahead of you.

He watches Cor's progress and absorbs his downtime and suggests Elon presents for Ranary and positions his people to evacuate once Cor has something.

Cor is delighted with his boyfriend and makes test paints when he has the idea of dripping blood and is all set after just a few weeks.

"We've got to get Sauron too but I don't think it's worth delaying on Melkor to have something for him."

"I'll need separate intel."

"Orcs have some and will have more once Melkor's gone."

"I guess if I deoath some they won't have to hate Elves any more, even."

"Won't that be interesting."

"I guess. The ones I sent to my world didn't have a lot of time to explore the possibilities of not hating Elves."

"I vaguely expect them to hate us anyway, we do kind of routinely kill their families. Maybe once we have resurrection."

"I don't want to deoath tons and tons of orcs, so ideally find some who'll give credible Sauron information without that or at least definitely will cough up afterwards."

"Yep, we're on it."

"Good." Kiss.

Kiss!!

"I love you."