Moringotto would have more of a reason to get back with the books as soon as possible. Or you mean he might have left something for when we get back?

Yes. And we don't know how soon is as soon as possible -

Point. He got to Doriath and back fast, but we don't know if it'd be a lot of trips. He didn't just move the house like Ulmo.

Is there any conceivable magic reason for that -

Karma reasons, but he wouldn't be taking it from the rightful owner. None that he knows about. Maybe it's just restraint for the same reason he didn't start the war by killing everyone.

Well, then I think we are completely dependent on his continued interest in showing restraint.

Or he can't move things the size of a house anymore. But even then– we have until his people learn English. Then we lose.

It shouldn't take them long at all - orcs aren't less intelligent than Elves - if we drop rocks we at least kill his allies -

And distract the survivors.

I'll talk to your cousins first. Maybe they'll know something that changes this mess.

Quickly -

Travel by freefall is affected much less by broken bones than things like horseback. The trip is in fact pretty quick.

There's a lot of movement in the Fëanorian camp.

Normally she'd interrupt Maitimo for this; is he back from Doriath?

Yep.

New emergency! Moringotto got the library. Was anyone looking in a palantir at the time, did they see what happened, if not can someone look over the city for obvious traps—

Fuck. We were watching Doriath - I can have them look now but that's not the sort of thing it'd necessarily be any good at seeing -

If you don't see anything we're going in, but it has to be worth a check.

And how many bodies– he might have practitioner captives–

You don't all have suicide triggers -

We do, but we think he was there in person. He might have managed to stop them from working somehow.

They're scanning now, you can try too if you know what to look for - though with human eyesight it won't help much, I don't expect -

Probably not. I was piggybacking on Elves' sight when we looked from the air– We only even know the library was gone because of the new holes in the walls.

I should have given you a talk about being sufficiently paranoid a very long time ago -

Believe me, I'm kicking myself for not carting everything off to an anonymous spot on another continent at minimum.

We pretty much have to move fast at this point, and hope we either destroy the books or at least kill his linguists.

Yes you do. By dropping rocks, or do you have anything better than that?

Well, missiles. No weapons on a bigger scale than that– if he weren't also a Vala we could try and set off some interesting natural disasters but as it is it's probably too easy for him to shrug off anything affecting the environment.