Alqualonde is really beautiful.

The seafood is incredible, the beaches are stunning, the ships bob merrily in the shockingly colorful waters of the ocean.

They should go swimming! And hand-feed each other pieces of seafood dripping with butter.

They can do both these things! And listen to music by the waterside and get pictures painted of the two of them and build extravangant sandcastles encrusted with diamonds.

Apparently elves swim naked. Idaia draws upon vast reserves of willpower to keep from getting them kicked out of Alqualonde, too.

It's not like they swim with unbraided hair or something.

Yeah, naked means basically the same thing in Kilaiuossa.

Poor, poor Idaia. He will tease her about jointly seducing some pretty swimming boy but only because she can read his private thoughts and tell he's not remotely tempted.

Pfft. She retaliates by very deliberately imagining unbraiding her hair at him.

That's not playing fair. No being seductive at your husband nude in public - maybe they should change that last thing -

What a great idea. They should go do that. Now.

The Noldor built the houses on the shores of Alqualonde, because the Teleri couldn't be bothered to invent stoneworking. Sensible of them. Tyelcormo's cousins have a house here that is currently empty and satisfactory for hair-unbraiding and other things.

It's interesting how being wet changes the lovely soft texture of his hair. Idaia should examine this phenomenon in more detail.

They can spend a full Year here if they want, learning spear fishing and sailing.

Welllll maybe she's not sure she does want to see the dinosaurs and she's not sure she wants to spend that much time away from her sister.

But it does sound appealing.

Imliss should have come along! Why didn't she - oh, right.

They don't spend a Year, but they spend a good part of one. It's lovely. Then south to see the dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs are even more awesome in person than as a transmitted memory.

Dinosaurs are amazing. Idaia is going nowhere fucking near them because what if Mandos doesn't find her when she dies.

Aww. Spoilsport.

(No, it makes sense.)

But she can look at them as much as she wants from a safe distance, which is good enough, she supposes.

He can go tame a baby and bring it back to the cliff city for her to play with?

Aw. Aw. Awww.

Wait. Wouldn't that be bad for it in the long run?

"...probably not? Dinosaurs vary, lots of them don't have particular socialization requirements."

"Okay in that case sure that sounds great and adorable."

So he goes and befriends a baby dinosaur for his wife. And brings him back to their place. 

She is utterly charmed and delighted. It's so cute. It's so dinosaur.