"Sometimes even in ways we can't fix!"

"Loki's designing her spell to work on nonreductionist people, right -"

"Right, give her a few decades and you'll be having an awkward conversation with your Valar about whether they get their Mandos back or not and everything."

"General resurrection will be nice."

"I'm still convinced there's a way to do it with eclipsed but it might be an intractable calorie expenditure if you try to do it with human eclipsed."

"What are Ent eclipsed like? What are Ents like in general?"

"I, uh, find them way too frustrating to talk to, so I delegated it and haven't heard back because they are very. Very. Slow."

"Ah."

"You'd think it'd be easy to talk them into spending a couple trivial years in a virtuality but apparently they take a long time to make decisions about even such trivial periods of time so they're still locked down for now."

"What a very Vala-designed species."

"Very. Even the Valar are capable of alacrity now and then, though, Ulmo was pretty easy to work with when I was trying to prevent Valinor from melting - though I do have to dock points for not having figured out that if Melkor escapes you tell the local precog instantly -"

"I have this weird feeling Eru would have interfered with that but I suppose it would have been valuable to force her hand."

"Would it? How?"

"We can't refrain from fixing things in the fear it'll inspire an Eru to get involved, and so far they haven't directly done much, I would really really like more data on what they're willing to do -"

"I suppose it's out of the question to just ask?"

"...not really. I'd like to do it somewhere where we can react if things go badly but there might not be any such place -"

"I mean, you might get your data if Telperion's Eru takes exception to the Valar there containing their Melkor... did they catch the Telperion Sauron yet?"

"They said - uh, two Earth years and a bit ago - that they'd be really careful, grab him the next time he showed up. It would surprise me if they got around to it already. I would rather get data in some other form than an Eru objecting when we take away his toys."

"Exactly. So maybe we should ask one."

"Yay. Which one - how -"

"Elentári maybe? Most of the interesting people are already out and Loki can reach it and it started as a standard example."

"Assuming Eru can't reach Edda - or that the Tesseract can take him - but yes, it's probably the safest."

"One of the Ardas in range of Wish is also an option but I think I'd bet on the Infinity Stones before the inadequately documented wishing machine."

"Sounds right."

"Why is it that Cam hasn't documented the wishing machine, anyway?"