"All right. Imrainai, you're welcome to try to figure out how that works while I figure out who we need to talk to for war planning. Is there someone in charge here - ?"

"That'd be me. In theory. I was planning to grab your whole work crew and some Quendi from the world I pulled you from. Also some other Quendi who probably want to talk to those Quendi. And then I figure some subset of those people can work on planning an evacuation while I work on improving my magic, without you losing any time relative to your world."

"This place has food? Water, shelter, waste disposal - "

"Yes, yes, yes, work in progress. I guess I can set up some actual outhouses, that's probably less gross than the chamber pots."

"What's an outhouse?"

"Big hole in the ground with a toilet over it. I'd rather have indoor plumbing but I'm not entirely sure how to set it up. We should be able to handle a couple hundred people here, though. Too many and generating food for all of them becomes a hassle, but I can handle a few hundred pretty easily."

"All right. You can bring them here?"

"I need names. But with them, yeah."

"Are they gonna be able to stand?"

"Valar fixed that. We should be able to get around in Earth normal gravity just fine, now."

And she can start giving the weird magic teenager names.

She summons a lot of spacers, herds them over to the yurts, and drafts Asmodia in her capacity as cleric to go explain to them what the hell is going on.

Well this is something. 

She listens to all of the minds in the area and notices that one of them is also listening to one of the others.

Not a psyon. Something else. That's weird. She listens to what the other mindreader's thinking.

Most Hells are probably not paused. There was plenty of documentation - he wasn't paying close attention but he can call it to mind - suggesting that the plural is right, and also Karen wasn't in the place the Osirians describe, and not in a place with anyone else either, and while some worlds pause together - the Osirian gods seemingly having paused with their world, despite living in different ones - some obviously don't.

So you need a sprawling operation to pause all the Hells. You need to identify world after world after world and find people who've died and pull them back to the demiplane. The other Karen doesn't have the logistical resources to pull it off or the emotional resources to cope with it, because most of them will be much worse off than Karen was, most of them will want to stop existing, and because he's not totally sure the scope of it will be finite. So he shouldn't even mention it until the resources to accomplish it are at hand.

The helpful Valar, if they're really that, might constitute the resources to accomplish it - you could dump people on Lorien, give them a little time to figure out if they actually definitely for sure want to stop existing - and you could destroy his brother, at that point, with another one around -

Well that sure sounds serious. She should talk to Mathrael about it the next time Mathrael has a minute. They don't have the resources to cope with a second massive rescue operation, but it's probably good to keep track of all of the ongoing moral catastrophes in their vicinity. 

Also this guy seems pretty convinced that people in dire straits will want to stop existing, which is not uniformly false, but does seem like a thing to keep an eye on, given how many of her sisters are going to be in rather dire straits when she finds them.

There're another four people off away from everyone else, two adults and two kids, weirdly small but definitely possessing minds, what're they thinking - 

Cecelia's upset but if she doesn't want to talk about it he doesn't know what to do about it. Aside from get somewhere safe and it feels, at present, like nowhere is safe. He's very unhappy. He would tell her to either talk about it or leave but he's scared she'll leave. Maybe he should ask the angry one for advice again. If he sees her alone. - something's tracking debt. What the fuck is tracking debt, is it music he isn't consciously hearing - fuck - no wonder Cecelia hates him now, he can't protect her from anything here -

- he experimentally plugs his ears, closes and opens his eyes, checks the windows - debt debt debt debt - 

"Leave," he snarls at the woman with the children, "and don't ever come back -"

She holds her baby very close.

" - what - "

"Get out of here. I'm entangled with something and I don't know what - go away -"

" - okay," she says, and in another moment she's taken the toddler's hand and held her baby and headed off as quickly as she can, out of the house and up the path that leads to the rest of the forest and towards the other people.

She's very very worried and scared that she's just - actually never going to get to see him again for reasons she doesn't understand, because something else they can't stop is happening, but she goes.

- well that seems bad. 

"Who're the small people in the forest," she says, not asking anyone in particular because she hasn't quite worked out who she should be asking yet.

"Cecelia and her fairy? How do you even know about - "

She reads her mind and then sees that the psyon is reading her mind, and also everybody else's minds at once, somehow, more information than she can even process - 

" - stop that, what are you doing - "

Well, she can't stop, so if that's a problem for people here then it's quite a problem, isn't it - maybe if they teleported her back or moved her far enough away -

She spends a second thinking and then flies over and scoops the girl up and flies a couple miles out with her.

"Is this far enough?"

"I can't actually hear you without reading your mind. But yeah, I can't hear anyone else from over here."

"Okay. Whatever you do don't lie. In fact, don't say anything, to anyone. You're entangled with the fairy and if you tell any lies you are going to hurt yourself and him very very badly, and I am going to be really upset about that, because he's dealt with entirely too much stuff already, okay?"

Nod.