"What would?" asks Karen, heading in to collect breakfast from Bar. "...Hi, Minor."

" - hi. How recently from a world something needs to be for the Valar to portal to it. So we can go to Limbo."

"Oh. Cool."

Nod. "How have you been."

"I'm fine."

" - okay."

...breakfast. Breakfast is fascinating.

Okay. He leaves Ambela a note asking how recently of a place the Valar need a thing to be.

And Ambela inquires.

...they're not sure, sorry.

Well, there is a Limbo imported harp known to be in such and such a place if they want to go look at it.

They go look at it; can't get a portal.

There's a Fairyland concordance soon but they will need to go alongside a very fast train designed to take up all of the space in the concordance.

They can be immaterial, that should not interfere with very fast train. Also that's an impressive work of engineering on the Limboites side to have a concordance-length of fast-moving train's worth of tracks, how did they build them?

The daeva worlds ferried them materials during pre-train concordances.

They'll have someone portal-capable in Fairyland once it's time.

And Ambela reports this to whom it may concern.

"Summoning shortage is a real problem. The set of my fathers who are working on that think they might have an angle on non-Milliways interworld transit that doesn't require access to both worlds already, but we can't do anything for those worlds once we find them, not at a rate even vaguely resembling the rate we'd need. And there are another couple Ardas coming up on the parole of Melkor to intervene in."

"At least Ardas at that age don't have humans and aren't so urgently in need of summoning."

"Yeah. The risks of introducing them and tempting some orcs to retaliate for the side-effects of the sudden sanifying of the Valar might outweigh the benefits, honestly. Maybe when we start worldhopping we'll find a resurrection solution."

"Maybe the Singularity orcs should talk to the ones in other worlds."

"There's an idea. Might be disruptive, but - they all deserve to know and hearing it from other orcs will probably go over better."

"Yes, exactly."

" - should probably be someone other than me, are there some nations in your Endorë on good terms with their orcs..."

"Yes, most of them, orcs are perfectly nice under unconstrained conditions. I met some myself, if I try I can spend most of a day in an orc city without having to sing and I went to Endorë on our honeymoon - that wasn't recent though, probably better to go through Brithombar or something."