And we can keep it in the city if we want to take advantage of whatever degree of protection it still offers given the addition of magic to the playing field.

May as well. One of the demesnes there is probably about as safe as anywhere gets.

I'll send ahead and ask who has the space and can get it ready -

- and a second later - can't reach them.

Well, we'll be in range soon. There probably isn't vital information being read over anyone's shoulder right this minute.

I left a relay - maybe Ungoliant got her -

Maybe she just fled? Or if it was Ungoliant I hope she used the suicide switch first—

How likely is it that demons can really do that - it shouldn't be possible at all -

I'm not the most informed person, but it seems pretty likely to me. Even if it's not possible, some nonfatal injuries might be worse than suicide. When a demon takes something that's irrevocable.

Let's read those books. We probably should have sooner - there really aren't safe options, here -

Nod. Putting it off made sense when we were only thinking about the Enemy. In retrospect– a correctible mistake.

And they round everybody up and fly home.

And would head straight for the library, except that'd be a bit redundant with the long-range telepathy.

...nope, actually. See, no one's responding.

There is no possible good reason for that.

There really isn't. Rushing into that is also probably unwise.

...probably.

They're either gone, dead, or someone found out how to block osanwë. We can check for that last one by having people in front talk to people behind them–

Works fine.

They don't know how close to the city the cutoff is if there is a cutoff, but that's still the worst good sign they could get.

It's probably safe to get within visual range. He does. The house is - mostly still standing. The fortifications and buildings they'd set up around it, less so.

And there's no wrecking ball wandering around with a guilty expression.

There were demesnes to hide in. There aren't a lot of things that could kill everyone–

Unless they thought it was worth trying to stop him from getting to the library - because it must have been him, lobbed a distraction at Doriath and then -

Someone with fewer broken bones checks the library. Empty.

That could mean people escaped with it. Under the circumstances... probably not.

We should ask my cousins who apparently spy on us constantly.

Definitely. In case they happened to be watching here instead of the place with the probable war.

I'm sure they were watching their Silmaril but they can scan the area more safely than we can.