Huh. ...So what does it do, besides be nice...?

I think I'd know if you were in danger or distress and I might be able to teleport to you from anywhere. The teleport part only because I can already teleport, I think. Osanwe's much stronger - I know you don't like me to read you, so I haven't poked that - and I can feel what you're feeling. I think it'd usually be reciprocal but you're human.

I might loosen up on the telepathy eventually but yeah, thanks. How much stronger, like, "we can give back the palantiri" stronger?

Not if we want to communicate things more complicated than emotional states. Maybe eventually 'come here' could be a recognizable emotional state - not sure, I'm new at this -

So just the emotional bits of osanwë, not the verbal parts?

My range is much better on the verbal parts too. If we're on the same planet, probably we can talk. But the knowing how you're doing, that's just emotional state.

If it works between worlds 'come here' plus urgency level is probably condensable into something emotional.

Cool. Then yes, we can dispense with the palantiri.

Once we have that working, anyway, calls for testing. And not right now. I'm comfy.

Me too.

Snuggle. Love you.

I love you so much.

And the next day they go to return the palantiri.

And he glances up, meets Lúthien's eyes and says, mostly concealing surprise, "congratulations."

What.

He's now picking through his desk. "The traditional Noldorin wedding present is minor magic items but all of ours are in use. Chocolate?"

"We're, um - sorry - how do you know."

"Elves can see when other Elves are married, in their eyes," she says. "Sorry, forgot to mention it because I didn't expect it to come up."

"Why would this not come up? Are you planning to never visit your parents?"

"Um."

Sigh. "We can deal with it one way or another but it's gonna be awkward."

"Is this a problem on the scale of 'you should find Lúthien a boy to pretend to have impulsively married' or just on the scale of 'a few centuries' estrangement?"

"I was guessing the latter, also no idea how to audition Pretend Husbands and I can't just wave vaguely at you and have people for the job pop out of the woodwork because presumably if they're Elves it will be obvious it's fake."

"If you're looking at a disaster on the scale of 'Doriath declares war on Earth' I could make people pop out of the woodwork for this, too. If it's just going to be hard on Lúthien -" he shrugs. "May the Ages bring them around."

"That would be a weird war. They can't, like, get to Earth. The teleporters are humans plus Lúthien."