Oh. Well, then it's a good thing they didn't already fork a Space one. The Vanda Nossëo suggestions should be available for review soon. Sorry, Elspeth sucks at secrets, occupational hazard.

He'll take a look at the suggestions. Sorry. 

No need to apologize to Elspeth about it. Anyway it's seven hops to Vanda Nossëo here goes!

That is a lot of hops. They are very curious about all of the hopped-through places.

Elspeth can summarize them! There's Wish which is like so and Luster which is like that and the one with all the monsters in it that Gem and Joy fixed up so it does not have so many monsters in it and Stork is this way and Hex thus and Space Arda is Space Arda and now they are in Edda.

Who should he talk to about their engineering projects and what they are doing with them.

He's got an alt who is probably around here somewhere, that might be a good place to start, people often have an easier time getting up to speed with their alts than anybody else.

Hello? he says tentatively, and yes, he has an alt here, and will scurry off to be brought up to speed by him.

Elspeth doesn't know if Hrista and Calí have alts here but she knows where the guest rooms are?

That is going to be a no because both of them were born in the Second Age. And their parents are probably on Elentári. Guest rooms sound nice.

So Elspeth brings them to the guest rooms and tells the people who like to know who's in the guest rooms that she has done this.

Vanda Nossëo is so so excited about rings of power. Also, cool, people in guest rooms.

With something vaguely resembling actual time pressure in the background, Kib finally doesn't reschedule his appointment with Boots.

And then he goes to visit Island.

Hey.

Hi.

Boots is pretty good at her job.

Okay.

I can produce more detail if you want it, I don't know what you'd need to know...

If you think it's a good idea I'm willing to do it - just - sounds terrifying -

Kinda was. She went really slow and made sure I understood what she was doing before she did it and bounced me as much of what it was as can make sense to people who don't have psychic powers, but - yeah.

But now I don't have the thing where I can't think straight for ten to fifteen minutes if I spill hot tea on my hand, so.

That is a very useful result. Hugs?

Hugs.

I'll tell her I'll do it.

What d'you suppose you'll have her do?

I - there are two things that are going to be relevant for the new Arda's me. One is that we can't actually promise it won't happen again, and the other one is that, minute-to-minute, existing is very unpleasant. Not intolerable, just - pretty much never superior to not existing. We might need to change both those, in which case I don't know what to do for him, but if changing the second one is enough, and Boots can do it...

I'm not sure how she'd go about it but maybe she can.