"You were so right."

"I try to make a habit of that. Have you spoken to Maedhros at all or have you been occupied? I would like to fetch his alt for advice on how to talk to him and you will have to teleport out and get him for me."

"I may have slightly been avoiding that. I can do that."

"You will want to land" here "and osanwë him an explanation."

She nods, teleports, and produces a summary of the past few days and her world in general.

(It does not in any way include her massive crush on his brother's alt or what she was doing last night and this morning.)

"...all right. Thank you. Can I go visit this universe?"

"That would be why I'm here!"

"Where's Loki?"

"Milliways."

"I need a bit more than that to jump from."

"Right, sorry," she says, and describes the location of the et door.

Smile. Hard to tell if it's a real one. "Thanks so much. Coming with me?" 

"Yeah."

And then they are both in Milliways. He quirks an eyebrow at Loki. "Sentient interdimensional bar?"

"With an annoying time-pausing feature! Time cannot be proceeding in both my and her world simultaneously unless one of us wants to lose the door, and the Tesseract thinks it is not a real place so I can't just come back whenever! But yes."

"And another dead Enemy."

"Yup. And another you, that's why I sent Odette to get you, I'm not even sure if he'll have taken the free will - she's better at the Aether than I am, so -"

"He'd have taken it, it's verifiable - 

Do you know how much longer he was in Angband?"

"No - Odette, do you know how long -?"

"I have sort of been avoiding soliciting details on that subject lest I find a way to literally explode with rage. I think it's less that I'm better with the Aether and more that I'm better with pain," she adds thoughtfully.

"Perhaps I will ask his Findekano."

"Better with the Aether in practice, if not in principle."

Loki locates the Findekáno in question and puts them somewhere such that they can knock on his door.

He knocks.

He opens the door. His eyes narrow. Passcode?

I don't have it, we've actually never met before - and he explains.