She is not aware of anybody who wants to consent to being modeling clay and it would be very troubling indeed to go looking for them.

Well, the ring still thinks it can make her friend's mind nicer.

Great. Let's have lots of excruciating detail on that so they can make sure they're on the same page. It's not getting any part of its mind control interface back until she's sure of that part.

It needs to look at his brain to see exactly what it should do and that feature is part of the mindcontrol interface even though (the ring sulks) it's not even mindcontrol.

Maybe it could give examples of guesses based on his observed behavior and known history.

His behavior is lying on the ground wanting to die. It could show her what other people tortured by Sauron had going on and how you'd correct it?

Yeah, like that.

So it does that. Here's the set of flinch-responses and how you'd uninstall them (or install them directly if you wanted them), here's the way all your associations get twisted and warped and one could untwist and unwarp them, it expects she'll throw a fit if it just makes people stop wanting to die but it can make the pathway to wanting to die a little less smooth, so one doesn't stub their toe and shut down desperately wishing to die...

Good ring, thank you ring.

Okay. Can they give the ring back the parts that let it let her do that and not the part that will let it do that all by itself to e.g. Ambela.

They are almost certain they can do that but want to try it not in Valinor just in case Eru thinks it'd be funny to interfere or something otherwise goes wrong. If we're all there we could take it off you before there were problems.

I'd appreciate the safeguard.

Hear that ring, if you get any leeway and use it to fuck around your mind control features go away for good and Ambela won't like you anymore. Which is a pretty long-term problem when you have no mind control features.

The ring would be really upset if Ambela didn't like it! Really upset!

And it knows how to behave so that doesn't happen, right?

Yes definitely. No mindcontrolling Ambela at all.

Good.

Okay.

Let's try the thing.

Mindcontrol interface. It is so pretty! It rivals the Silmarils for prettiness! It gives her so much information about the people around her - anxious Valar, presently - all in a beautiful blazing-clear format, all attached to silky gold and silver and deep blue strings that she could pull!

But is not actually tempted to pull.

It's lovely. She'll bounce it to some artists later and get art of it.

"I'm okay, not that you should take my statement as particularly good evidence on that," she tells them.

"You are not being mindcontrolled," Vairë agrees confidently. 

Okay. Time to go be very very careful with Maedhros.

Eeeeeeeee so pretty so pretty so much fun aaaaah so much fun okay so these are the things the ring explained to her, to get rid of all the little jumps and distortions born of Years of torture -

Do you want to see what I'm doing?

- sure. 

She opens up the sense for him. Relays the ring's suggestions.

He shivers more violently. I couldn't actually stop you - right -

You can change your mind. I suppose you could call a Vala if I tried to go ahead anyway - please do, actually, if it comes up.