"Yes. If you're curious they can still do the static on request, although it does not seem a priority. Do I need to do anything to allow you to bring my husband here?"

"No, simply your presence should suffice. If my initial attempt fails I may ask you to do something that might increase efficiency."

"All right."

He closes his eyes and tips his head back.

He assembles exactly what he wants in as much detail as possible.

He demands it.

An Elf appears. He's a little taller than Mirelótë and dressed similarly and he blinks twice and then beams at her. "Did Eru do that or -"

He was probably involved in my disappearance but you I asked Atennesi here to bring. "Atennesi, my husband Rúmil."

He stands and bows. "It is a pleasure to meet you--ah, Mirelote, if you could translate that--"

"I'll translate by osanwë, he'll pick up the language about as fast as I did." She does.

"Are you also summarizing our previous conversations, or should I re-explain?"

"If it's more convenient I can catch him up."

"You know him better than I and are more likely to be able to present it in a way most compatible with him."

"All right. Rúmil, this is another world with only this species as sapients; they're called humans... - Was I sending backups?"

"No. Mandos couldn't tell what was going on - I went to the Moon to talk to Eru -"

"Really, did he have anything to say for himself?"

"He said you weren't dead. I said - various uncomplimentary things - and he said that you would probably not have preferred nonintervention and I said those were hardly the only choices he had and he apologized and said he was late for a poetry reading."

"That sounds like Eru." She translates for Atennesi.

"I think I prefer this world's probably nonexistent deity or deities."

"He's occasionally useful but your system definitely has its advantages. Anyway. I asked Atennesi to bring you here because he can use people from Arda to magically locate Arda, and if he sent me back he might not have been able to find it any more, and humans are inherently mortal."

" - as in they just all die? And here I was feeling vaguely badly for a few of the words I had for Eru -"

"They can use magic to stop themselves from all, yes, just dying, but there's a conspiracy to suppress that!"

"Well! All right, we go back and get the Valar -"

"There is some concern about how they will actually stack up against the higher-power locals - particularly considering that Atennesi could pull you here but they could not, I take it, get me or come after me. But yes, that's the idea."

" - what do you think Eru intends -"

"Optimistically, he thinks we'll have a marvelous little adventure and write alternate universe fanfiction and be inspired by the dead humans we were too late to save and so on."

"Uh huh."