"Then I have no explanation."

"I don't either." Pause. "If you want to let me I can look."

"What does that entail, exactly?"

"The same powers that let me recognize minds let me read them, but I only do that with permission. I won't change anything you don't want me to. Or tell anyone what I find if you don't want me to."

"No. Sorry. Not out of - idle curiosity."

"I've never undone something the Enemy did yet but I've reversed things a Mandos has done before."

"The Valar did as much as could be done, when we arrived in Valinor. I think - two rounds of that - was enough."

"The Valar here were unusually bad at their jobs even for Valar -" She sighs. She shakes her head. "Sorry. I don't mean to be pushy."

He nods. 

Sigh. "Sorry."

"By your own account if you - did this, and it worked, it would involve me being replaced with a completely different person."

"I'm not actually sure what might have been done to make you register differently. It's not impossible to do that without doing anything else, I could learn how if I had any reason to want to, but I'm assuming that's not the case here. I could tell you what I find without changing anything, if you want."

"And I am supposed to take your word for this?"

"I guess you don't really have a reason to do that, do you."

"Not really, no."

"Okay. I'm sorry for wasting your time."

"Have a nice day."

"You too."

It has not been an hour yet so she doesn't go back to Midnight's palace, she hops all the way back to Warp, the long way, because she's still not going through Materia.

Where her Rúmil is working on plans for a second city, to accommodate all these new people who are going to be coming through.

Can her Rúmil be hugged while he's doing that?

Yes of course. What happened -

Midnight told me where to find your alt in his world and I went and he looks like you but he doesn't register like one of your alts and I don't know why -

Maybe the Enemy knew how to be subtler -

Could be. Didn't look.

Why not?