"Glowing ones and work-in-the-dark ones. Yes, it kind of does."

"I would naively have expected more tree expertise!"

"Valar."

"Valar."

"Do we have a way to kill Telperion's Melkor?"

"Portable solution won't touch him and nonportable ones can't reach while he's locked up."

"Can we move him here and do it -"

"Secure Vala prisoner transport is not a solved problem. Also we'd probably stop in Wish so Gem could let you or one of your alts wish it instead of hauling him the extra hops to here."

"Wishes're one off, Isabella can do it all day - has anyone tried wishing on a Vala-killing power -"

"Doesn't go."

"No one feels strongly enough or it's not the sort of thing the machine can do or -"

"Seems to be a device limit, but if anybody with a higher reading somehow turns up I'm sure she'll retry."

Nod. "And wishing Sybil'd work outside adjacency -"

"No adjacency-affecting wishes have gone through yet but it's definitely worth a try to get Sibyl portable."

"Isabella, was it ever verified that other mage portals are to planets in your world -"

"Remote viewers who can't see Ithil can see the planets."

"Huh. Okay."

"Yeah, the portal to here is just weird somehow. It's a pity we don't have decent generic metamagic."

"Maybe Eru. How does Loki feel about precogging a chat -"

"I doubt she'd mind but I bet all the Erus kick me out of precog just as much as the local."

"...yeah, I guess that's likely. Worth it to have a chat with one anyway?"

"Maybe? Should probably agree on a question list in advance."

"Yeah. Hmmm."

"I'll put out a note about it." Multiversal network: so handy.

It is!!!