Me too. We should talk for longer than a few supervised seconds, some time.

Anything in particular you think she omitted?

Why she's no longer mad at me, what's been up while we've been gone...

Aww, who could stay mad at you?

Seriously, though, fair enough.

Irisse could stay mad at a puppy dog if she wanted. Course, she'd say we're the ones who hold grudges.

Do you?

Maybe just a tiny bit? My baseline resentment of people in general grows.

I'm glad it hasn't grown to the point where you couldn't notice I was atypical.

I guarantee you it will never grow to the point where I cannot notice people who don't suck.

Good. It would be sad otherwise.

I wouldn't be anywhere near as sad about missing out on you as I should be.

I'm so glad I found you. But I wouldn't want you to be sad if I hadn't.

I'd want to be sad, if I'd missed out on you!

I'm flattered. But I--if we ever found--more worlds, or something, with more of me, and she'd never been attacked by a snake monster and she'd found someone nice enough and had a normallish courtship and gotten married I feel like rubbing it in her face how much better my husband was than hers would just hurt both of them.

Okay, fair enough. I wouldn't rub it in some other Tyelcormo's face either.

Of course, if we separately found a single me and a single you we should totally set them up.

This is a bit of a ridiculous line of speculation. But yeah.

Less ridiculous than it would have been before snake monsters got involved!

There being two universes doesn't mean there'd be two versions of people. And if there were two versions of our parents the vast majority of children they had wouldn't be us.

True enough. I guess I'm cosmically lucky to have you, not just fantastically.

Maybe he should stop nitpicking and just kiss her again.

What an excellent plan!

"They've been like this basically since they met, it's ridiculous," Imliss complains to Feanaro.

"You should go to Tirion," Feanáro says, "where my firstborn apparently gently hinted them on out of his sight after enough kissing and will probably be sympathetic. I will write you with vocabulary and grammar questions."

"I'll respond once I have presentable handwriting."