Do you want me to not come? Because I don't have to, I'd be okay fixing Beleriand and singing and things.

No, of course I want you to come, I just don't want you to feel like that's the only thing you can do with your life, like just because you dropped on me you're stuck with that.

Dropping on you made me feel less stuck than I've ever felt.

Then you can come with me to Mars. It'll be great. There's like nothing on Mars, we can pretty it up from scratch.

I'm so excited. I could take care of a whole world the way my mom takes care of Doriath, be aware of it and make sure it's safe and beautiful...

Oh, wow, it can stretch that far?

Not usually but I think maybe if I built it myself and took enough time then it could.

How long is enough time?

Dunno. You don't die. We have as long as we want, don't we?

Yeah, I'm just the impatient type.

I can do it while you're sleeping.

Yeah, the operative scale of impatience is how soon we can start moving people in.

Oh, we can do that long before it's all glowy and the rivers are all safe to drink. 

Mars doesn't already have any rivers so I imagine they'd start potable.

I can't sing rivers into place, we'll need wishes for that.

Not necessarily outright wishes. It'd be tedious to pull that much water out of my shield but it's a proof of concept for magic generation.

Okay. Maybe Mum'll be willing to help, she hasn't made a planet in Ages.

Maybe! Most of the planet is already there, it just doesn't have anything neat on top.

If she's not too mad at me I will ask.

What would she be mad at you for?

Running off to Mars with a girl I just met? Or a girl at all? Not that my parents would be happy if it were a boy either, really.

They're going to think we're an item?

I mean, you could just explain to her that humans are really impatient and you wouldn't want that, she'd probably believe you. 

I'm not sure what humans being impatient has to do with it.

It's why we can't go get married on Mars? I'd take forever to even know what I wanted and we don't know if the Valar had a reason and I can't kiss people just because they're pretty if I don't know yet if I'm in love with them and that'll be really slow!