"Less war and tragedy and horror and terribleness of things. Also I am not sure we need more light around here, but I can get darker glasses."

"I think Eru finds tragedy and horror beautiful."

"Um," says Bella, "then maybe he should write novels."

"I agree wholeheartedly."

"Maybe I am here to introduce the concept of the novel." She brushes off her hands in a 'well, that's done then' gesture.

"Some people do think Eru called you here. I don't. He liked the plan. Your plan is very different from his."

"I was kind of skeptical of that idea too. I mean, my world has horror and tragedy but it's very stylistically different and I kind of doubt Eru and my universe are even on speaking terms."

"...what kind of stylistic differences in horror and tragedy are there?"

"It's less concentrated - not just one Melkor doing everything unpleasant like it's his calling - and the tools to address it are way different, magic and subtle arts and every third person you meet being really into swords and people going epic; and the variety of afterlives and etiquette sometimes being a matter of life or death in the most arbitrary ways and a hundred kinds of people instead of like three; and there not being hardly any benign authority figures to go to for help."

"Ah. Yes. Eru wanted a terrible desperate war between good and evil, but he wanted good to win and win wholly."

"If my universe is aiming at something arc-y like that it's more like 'I want there to be cool people and not so many lame people, have a bunch of ways to be cool and I'll kill you if you're lame near anything that's cooler than you'."

"How do you turn that into a paradise? Make everyone maximally cool?"

"I'm not sure that works, because coolness is sort of inherently hierarchical there. There's not billions of ways to be cool."

"And yet making it less lethal to be near people cooler than you does not seem sufficient to make that world perfectly happy."

"Yeah, I think my universe needs a little more work than being told novels exist. It ought to have gotten the hint when action movies were invented, but no."

"Action movies?"

She sends the concept as a bundle - movies; the tropes of the action kind in particular; explosions and choreographed swordfights and wizards locked in combat with dragons and stuff like that.

Delight, fascination, glee - "I am not surprised that this failed to deter people from the behaviors it depicts."

"Oh, I'm not surprised that people aren't deterred, it's just like, Eru should write novels, my universe should direct action movies, everybody else should get on with less horror and tragedy."

"That sounds lovely."

"I think so!"

There are in fact a lot of courses of dinner.

Bella eats things, including desserts, and eventually begs off to go to bed.

A number of people congratulate her on her way out, and encourage her to come back when she has more to say.

She will!