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Yes. Yes she does.

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Before the last song listed on the program he pauses.

 

"This concert is dedicated to a girl. See, I've always wanted to have the kind of story about meeting the love of my life that we'd tell to our grandchildren and they wouldn't believe us. They'd go running off to more mature and responsible relatives to ask 'wait, did he really declare his undying love for a girl he'd never met at a concert dedicated to her after giving her a castle?' and my mature and responsible relatives will shake their heads sadly and say 'well, it was a pretty small castle, as castles come.'

Now, Prince Canafinwë, you are thinking, if you haven't met the girl how can you be decided about whether you want to have grandchildren with her? And here I will confess I cheated. On Hazel, a newly-added dimension four hops from here off Edda, a boy named Michael met a girl named Rebecca - in a nunnery - and stole her away with her daughter Catherine and they married that week and have three children so far and are cheerfully expecting to end up with twelve. And when Michael met the rest of us he told us we were missing out. And in another dimension next door to theirs, the local Macalaurë met a girl named Beka with a daughter named Kat and stubbornly refused to notice what was right in front of him until Michael and Rebecca showed up to shake him straight.

And I had the misfortune that not a single Rebecca was born on my world, but I also had a teleport. And I went looking. I found her on Amenta - the new planet that's caused all the fuss with their color-coded caste system and their infanticide and their collective horror at the idea that their sanitation workers might be touching things. 

I suspect the population of Amenta will find it mildly annoying that they have their shuttles and are getting their planets and their magic lessons and their emigration rights because I wanted to impress a red girl. Honestly, knowing that really improved the whole experience. So, uh, Amentans, I fixed your planet because Peka deserved better. And boy, are you lucky you had her."

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Peka is squirming with delight in her seat.

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"She's here tonight. If I recall correctly, she has a lot of magic presents and can fly."

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Peka puts Katin on her sister's lap and swoops into the air.

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He walks over to the front of the stage and reaches up for her.

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She swoops down into his arms and kisses him.

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Oh good. "I think you know the last song," he whispers after a moment. "First one on the first bead -"

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Nod nod.

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She sings along as soon as she has the key and there's a good pickup.

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There are a lot of people taking pictures.

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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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When the song is over he kisses her again.

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Kissssssss~

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They can do that for a really long time!!!

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If they do it for too long her ignorance of the public unacceptability of hair touching might bite them.

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There is a surprised stir from the crowd. He giggles. "That we should do elsewhere, it's - distracting - your family know how to get home okay -"

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"Yeah."

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Pop. "I'm glad you didn't morph it some other color it's so pretty."

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She tosses her hair. "I'm glad you like it."

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"Elves have a thing about hair, it's - very sensitive -"

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"Whoops. How obscene was it when in front of a few thousand people and cameras I -" Pet.

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Lean. "...approximately like if you'd reached under my clothes? My fault, I could have told you tons of Elf things but I didn't want to be, like, grooming you to be an Elf princess - just giving you beautiful presents that made you happy -"

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"The presents were so good."

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