"And 'no one who believes the world is a hallucination and no one in it is real should have that much power' is far more defensible a stance than 'no one should' in general. Perhaps he'll learn his lesson. How is murder punished in your world?"

"It depends on the country and who's doing it and why, mostly, but--if a mage kills someone with magic and doesn't have a much better reason for it than he had--they die. Mages are extremely and harshly self-policing back home."

"You, ah, won't get in trouble for orcs and dragons and so forth?"

"Worst come to worst I'm sure I can justify it on the grounds that Morgoth was using magic and therefor a mage and I was trying to police him. But honestly I'm not too worried, finding a new universe is so far as I know literally unprecedented and I can probably get away with just about anything I'm likely to actually do."

"Oh, good. I take it your hesitation about taking yourself and your sister home is that you're not confident you could find your way back here?"

"That, and I already tried when I first got here and didn't realize how much good I could do. It didn't work."

"When you're more powerful?"

"I'll try again after a while. I wouldn't want to risk it at all, except for Maedhros."

"...sorry?"

"Except that I anticipate that if I go home and can't get back, Maedhros will be able to do the things I was going to do," she clarifies.

"If the limitations are pain tolerance and determination, seems likely."

"Yeah. Anyway. I think that if I can get home I can probably get back here. Especially since I have your eyes, if having an anchor of some kind affected it."

"It would be convenient if we could evacuate our civilians to a planet where the Enemy can't touch them, if we end up losing this thing."

"There is that, for sure. I have...no idea how my world would react to that, but honestly it seems fairly trivial all things considered."

"We can compensate you. Our kind of magic can't do as much as yours, but there are things it can't do that I don't think yours can, and we'll learn your technology quickly. Well, I won't. Curufin will."

"I mean, I wouldn't be the person who would need compensating, I don't own any land or anything to settle people on. Maybe we can raise some more flying cities," she muses.

"If it becomes necessary I'm sure we'll find a way. Speaking of which, is that dome you set over the spiders still standing after all the exploding and shaking that the earth did?"

"Good question!"

"Check that out for us on your way to visit your sister?"

"Yes. I'm slightly reluctant to not just go out now and check, but it's...probably best to follow the plan. The spiders...weren't an overwhelming problem, even before I got here."

"Yeah, don't worry about it. They're a barrier to crossing the area, not a serious threat to my kingdom or Estolad or certainly Doriath."

"I dislike having to deal with problems I thought I had already solved again, but that doesn't make it a priority worth disrupting anything else," she agrees.

"Yeah, I figured. We do a lot of that. Think of it as making you stronger."

"Maybe I should talk to Curufin or someone about a better glass barrier at some point," she muses. "Also not a priority, but something worth remembering for later."

"He'd really enjoy working with you - it'd let him prototype materials and alloys and so forth very quickly, and he has a lot in common with our father."