"Glad you approve."

Wouldn't, ah, literally never been kissed. The Enemy - well, the Enemy sent us envoys claiming - 

- why don't you just really really murder him. 

"Whoah, that's a lot of rage, what'd you say to her?"

"I really love my brother and I really like how much Odette wants to kill the people who hurt him."

"And that made her mad?"

"No. I just said something I sort of figured she'd already have guessed."

I had sort of been actively avoiding thinking about the details of what happened to him.

Sorry. Continue doing that. It doesn't come up much. 

Except for when I smear Morgoth against the vastness of space, it is so going to come up then. I mean. How much I hate him, not the details.

And if you ever had an impulse to give my brother a hug. Or call him 'Maitimo'.

I'm so glad I called him that to your face before I had a chance to call him it to his.

I am sure he would have understood the sentiment. 

Yes, but since I'm forewarned I can communicate the sentiment by ostentatiously calling you Tyelcormo in front of him, I don't need to hurt him to do it.

Indeed. 

Maybe I had better not do that until after he knows and that's been resolved one way or another.

Knows we're involved? He'll know the second he looks at us, he's good at reading people.

Spooky psychic brother, she agrees. I mean more like should I avoid being in a room with him until he psychics it off of you and gets the yelling over with.

Possibly? I have something to come back at him with, anyway. "No relationships that are politically incredibly dangerous and put the whole war effort at risk?" Really, Nelyo?

He's totally going to know I told you, isn't he.

I am still not clear how you knew, is Findekano that obvious?

I don't think so. Illia told me, I don't remember her exact train of logic.

Once the war's open they may care less about discretion. I'm not sure how my father'll react and Nolofinwe will react very badly but there'll be nothing at stake, so it may be worth it anyway. 

How d'you think your father's likely to react to us?

His complaint about Findekáno will be that he's not interesting enough to deserve my brother. He's unlikely to have that complaint about you. His implicit true objection will be that Findekáno is a Nolofinwean and you are definitely not one. 

True enough. Hi, I'm super magic, I raised you from the dead, I speak five languages you've never heard of and I'm your new daughter-in-law, surprise.

He'll ignore the daughter-in-law bit to pick up the languages.