"That too. I - you'd think the war would give them all reason to cool it a little, but I think they remember every wrong they ever did each other as if it happened yesterday."

"Maybe if I'm very lucky it'll cool down after I've resurrected the relevant dead persons. Or, more realistically but still optimistically, people might decide to leave me out of it."

"Good luck with that."

"I'm not actually optimistic."

"Think we'll be that bad in a couple thousand years?"

"I think at worst we'll get differently-flavored drama because I love and trust my sister more than anything in the world and both my parents are only children."

"m'lord King loves and trusts his brothers wholeheartedly. The lack of cousins might help you."

"That and the lack of evil gods whispering wicked, wicked words in my parents' ears, yep."

"Let's hope the evil gods are all very thoroughly dead by the time we're as old as the Elves."

"Yyyyep. If it takes me that long to kill them I will be disappointed in myself."

"How long are you expecting?"

"I don't know exactly but I'm pretty sure some of these guys are multiple millenia old and and if it takes me as much as one millenium I will be substantially frustrated."

"They are. They used to count the years differently, but m'lord King is nearly three thousand and King Thingol of Doriath is at least six."

"If it takes me six millenia to kill Morgoth I am going to devolve into a frenetic bundle of rage and magic."

"I bet. That'd be a long time to wait to flirt with the boy, too."

"I am not going to wait six millenia to talk to him about my feelings," she acknowledges.

"Would not expect you to."

"Frankly even if it weren't for all those other reasons I have I'd want to wait, though, considering the hybrid thing."

"Oh, right, you mentioned Lord Maedhros put a rule in place. That was probably wise, even if it makes your life less fun."

"Yeah, I'll live."

"Is that it up ahead?"

"I think so but my eyes are better than yours so I'm not a hundred percent sure if you're seeing what I'm seeing."

"White dot is all I can see."

"I don't know if the particular white dot you see is the city but I can see the city."

"I'm pretty excited."