And everyone seems to think Morgoth'd blot out the sun if he could, so that's one reason to think having there be more of it would displease him in ways pleasing to everyone else.

Yeah, it might be a useful angle.

I'll talk to some people, see what they think.

Oh, also, don't go to the edges of the stupid flat planet, they're all fucked up.

Fucked up like how?

They had to do a patch job on the gravity for the planet to be flat and it's only really functional away from the edge. I never actually went and investigated but it's dangerous - might be okay if you brought a friendly Maia or something.

I'd probably be okay anyway, she says, looking at her still-not-on-the-floor feet.

Maybe, depends how it interacts, but the failure mode is 'attract attention of whoever's minding the safeties, or get flung into a vacuum', so...

It would probably be something of an adventure, but I bet I'd come out of it okay. Especially if I waited 'till I had Sympathy teleportation worked out.

You're going to have sorcerous teleportation, so there's that.

True! That makes the other thing less important but probably still worth doing, especially before the necklace's been duplicated.

Yeah. I might want your magic, incidentally, I probably will never have a reason to rely on it heavily but it can't hurt to have more magic powers.

And if you have it you can distribute it. Oh, it's also possible but much less efficient to transfer it by doing a lot of magic around a person, in case you ever want to teach it to any Dwarves. And you should probably teach your Maedhros.

Will do. How much is a lot?

Took me several days at, you know, my pace, and I was actively trying to figure out some way of doing it since osanwe didn't work.

Dwarves are a fantastic robust design but they are kinda missing out on some of the nice benign communicative stuff.

Yeah. Also, they have chocolate.

Chocolate is very important.

It is! I can generate matter from an existing template so I ended up buying some chocolate and a license to do that from a dwarven chocolatier with a bit of the proceeds from the magic.

If giving them magic doesn't have you set for life, teleportation couriering is very lucrative, FYI.

Noted.

Although since they don't like to publicize the locations of their kingdoms I had to wait months for it to be confirmed the long way around that they wanted this service.

Fair enough. It's not like I don't have enough Things To Do.

I assume you've received all the advice about pacing yourself and handling yourself as an irreplaceable wartime asset and so on.

Mhm. I'm generally either in Beth Miqlat--my sister's city--or Himlad--Tyelcormo's fortress--and they're both good at getting me to do that stuff.