How Magic In This Case Can Solve V's problem

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Well .. in the mythos I am most familiar with, a contract of this sort can't simply be broken or annulled. It must either be paid in full, or somebody else steps in and pays the price on V's behalf.

Remember Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe? Edmund put himself in the witch's power, and Aslan had to pay a steep price to rescue him. He couldn't just wave the contract away. Lawful good, after all. He had to pay the price in Edmund's place.

Anyways, that's how I'd get out of this sort of contract in Narnia.

What about OOTS verse? The rules are different here. Could a team-mate offer to pay the price in V's place? Could an outsider? Would an outsider do such a thing? Could they force the fiends to take the substitute unwillingly?

Or another possibility: Can V kill hirself and force the fiends to take back their time at a time and place of hir choosing, rather than their's?

If the fiends won't take hir soul .. if V's not lawful, could V hide out in the elven gods' afterlife, and good luck to the fiends in getting their payment from the elven gods?

Other possibilities?

Any possiblity of solving this problem seems to revolve around fundamental axiom: V has to admit ze's out of hir depth and get help from someone who can do so. That's a very hard thing for V to do.

Respectfully,

Brian P.