It's a good thing to have be important, she sends affectionately.

I'm a fan.

Maitimo's office is in the right wing of the palace. It has no door. He turns around to beam at them.

I don't think your brother is prettier than you but I can see why other people would think so, she observes.

All depends on whether one goes for red hair, I suppose. 

"Idaia! Tyelcormo!" says Maitimo delightedly. "Sit down, have a croissant, they just came out of the oven and the chocolate is all melted. What can I help you with?"

"...Well, first of all, you can tell me what chocolate is."

"You're right, that should very definitely be first. Here. Have one."

Idaia takes a pastry and bites into it.

Idaia makes an undignified squeaking noise of sheer delight.

"Chocolate," Maitimo says. "It is one of my greatest delights in life."

"I can see why it's so great!"

"I can send you home with some." And he produces all manner of chocolatey treats.

She giggles. "You just have all these lying around?"

"Most people are some combination of charmable and bribeable and so I have both at hand at all times."

"You have excellent taste in bribes. Also I legitimately cannot recall our original reason for coming here."

"I can be patient. Have another croissant while you try to remember."

Nom. D'you remember, not having been distracted by trying chocolate for the first time?

We were going to make trouble and wanted to know how to make it in a way that didn't ruin anything that wasn't liable to be ruined anyway.

It seems vaguely ungrateful to make him scold us right after being introduced to chocolate.

We can instead ask about house advice.

Exile isn't so imminent that we can't ask about damage control later.

I don't think so.

Yeah.

Love you.

Love you too.

Maitimo is staring between them expectantly.

"Oh, right," she says, tearing her eyes away from her husband's. "Um, we were mostly in Tirion so I could get a look at the architecture because I don't have a very well-developed architectural aesthetic and you came up and I thought it would be a good idea to ask advice."

"On good architects? I can recommend you a few, better if I know what you like."

She describes what she has liked so far about Tirion architecture!