Well at least she's of age.

I can't think how to check if our years are the same length.

You look like you're in your fifties, to me.

Really? Here's what I looked like in my fifties. He sends a mental image. He hadn't yet been fully grown. 

I think you age slower than me.

Could be. I'd have put you at fully grown so more than a hundred. 

You do not look more than twice my age.

Wait, what do people who are two hundred of your years old look like?

She shows him an image of someone reasonably old.

We have to be like a thousand years old to look like that. And then only if we want to. 

We're dead by two hundred, usually.

What? Of what?

Old age?

Are you gonna die?

Everyone does.

I guess maybe not in Paradise.

No one has ever died in paradise except my dad's mom and that was a really shitty situation but at least involved her saying "I want to die and not come back to life" so you can be pretty sure if you don't do that you're safe. 

So do we just--stop aging?

and does all this apply if no one but you knows we're here.

In general you're immortal either way but we're immortal outside Valinor too. Never heard of anyone anywhere just wearing out and dying like an Outer Lands animal. Might be worth taking you by a Vala to make sure. 

You'd never heard of dreamworking either. I think we had better see a Vala.

Yeah okay. I'll ask Orome. 

What's a Vala, anyway?

Gods? They created the world, they're very powerful, they roam around doing as they please...

Oh. Huh. I don't think my world has any gods.

Might not notice, it took the Valar a long time to run into us. 

Maybe, she shrugs. Doesn't do us much good if they haven't.

They're a mixed blessing. But they do bring the dead back, that's big.