"I think I will manage. Thank you." And he turns to quizzing Tyelcormo on recent events.

Bella goes and talks to her lawyer and comes back with a writeup of immigration options and their prerequisites. Most of them will in fact require him to have a Noldorin passport, but many countries will let that count.

"I have no idea what that is and am not asking it of my half-brother, but if Nelyo can write one up then that's fine."

"I don't think the king has to personally sign it or anything but if somebody asks him if you have a validly issued passport he'd better say yes."

"Then we'd better find a new king, hadn't we - my father's somewhere in Lorien, yes, Tyelcormo?"

Let's let Nelyo handle it.

Bella is not even gonna touch that. "Let me know. There's still the seasteading-and-studying-by-Internet option if this is a dealbreaker."

"I expect it'll work out fine."

Nod, nod. Back to other demands on her time. (Lúthien cannot be too distracting if Bella does her statecraft in stopped time!)

What a clever idea! All that undistracted statecraft!

And then she has a whole pile of it to show off to her girlfriend.

Kisses are starting to seem insufficient as an expression of adoration.

Well, if Lúthien goes for Bella's hair Bella's going to crack up but only a little bit.

Bella wears her hair loose, Lúthien has honestly been a model of restraint waiting this long.

Lúthien doesn't wear her hair loose, though! It's all tied up! Should it stay that way?

She is voting 'no'.

Oh it's so soft.

She makes delighted gasping noises.

...oooooh. Those are good noises and Bella will seek more of them.

Aaaaahhh.

It is a good thing that Bella is not likely to get distracted into two hundred years of this because Lúthien totally could.

Bella would have a really hard time doing anything for two hundred years straight even if it's as delightful as getting Lúthien to make those noises is. For one thing she will have to sleep eventually. Just not right now.

She doesn't want to do this for two hundred years they need to co-empress Mars. She just could totally spend two hundred years this way, aaaaahhh.

What, doing nothing but kissing and hair-petting, that's not very creative.

She sends Bella what hair-petting feels like.

...okay wow no wonder Elves have a hair thing, but it's still not very creative. Per se. Although if Lúthien does not want to be creative today that is okay.

She is up for being creative but may, aaahhh, need Bella to generate the suggestions.