Macalaurës who have not yet seduced a Rebecca feel that they have been issued a challenge. They get to work on it.
He goes to Eclipse and does research. Eclipse makes him feel very uncomfortable.
"Now, would I mention that all the other Rebeccas get castles and then make you live in a mere house?"
"It is not a floating castle. One of me is working on a floating castle but I did not want to wait that long. It has all its foundations firmly in the ground."
"I can fix that. But the children might want to wander the castle grounds before it's safe for them to fly."
Everything just keeps being SO GREAT. Rebecca is not sure she can hold all of this great.
"...it's not that it'd be very unsafe for them to fly, we will make them totally invulnerable to any kind of physical harm, but still, they could bump their heads."
"I can make you invulnerable to physical harm too but I wanted to check first that that wouldn't be, ah, disappointing."
"...like, how invulnerable to physical harm?" If he's suggesting it he probably doesn't want to reserve the option to physically harm her. Even if she is bad. She is ambivalent about him having the option to physically harm her for being bad. But losing the nice prickles when he grabs her hair or not being able to get the wind knocked out of her if he suddenly wants her on her back on the floor or whatever would be sad.
"It keeps that - just, things heal quickly, and nothing serious can happen at all. I don't want to reserve the option to harm you for being bad."
"I think that's less common now than when you died. Except for people who enjoy it."
"Well it seems to me that if you can't get your wife to do things that are important to you without beating her then you're pretty bad at your job."
"If we turn out to find it really inconvenient I am sure we can come up with something non-injurious and satisfactory."
Giggle. "I'll be good sir. Once I know all the rules." ...she's not actually sure if she will be a lot better at being good for him than she is at being, say, a good Catholic, but she will try.