I could probably change that? I don't know how kissing works exactly - humans have pointy noses, too, where do you put them -

Bella giggles. Did you avert your eyes when people in the mediocre TV dramas kissed? We tilt our heads.

The TV dramas were really overwhelming. What are people supposed to taste like, I don't have anything to go off...

I'm not operating on a huge amount of data here either, it was just a silly example.

What do you want? From your life, I mean, not Mars.

I want to fix everything. That's how I worded my wish, I wanted a chance to go back and fix everything.

That is really cute but not really what I meant. I meant, if you got a girl and got married in Canada, what would she have done while you were fixing everything? 

Depends. I don't feel like 'accessory to fixing everything' is a strict requirement. Doesn't hurt though.

Okay. I guess we can fix some more things and then figure it out.

Yeah.

You okay?

Yeah. I was thinking it couldn't possibly work and now it's like it could possibly work so that's good. The species differences are really inconvenient though. 

Sorry about that. Although I feel like I'm the sort of person who would have a really hard time pretending not to be in eternal intense love if I were, so to the extent leeway to determine how to finesse your parents is an important factor there's that.

That's a really good point. 

My parents present no problems whatever and I probably shouldn't be modeling yours as, like, 'strict Mormons' or 'those nutty Quiverfulls', or anything else comparable to the reasons human parents would object...

My parents' worries are going to be most importantly that this is new and they are terrified of new things and think of them as inherently dangerous, that this involves me leaving Doriath and they aren't very equipped to live with not having constant knowledge of my safety and wellbeing, that you're not good enough for me - and that's not an assessment they'd make after meeting you, they just have a persistent conviction no one could be except maybe some Elven king in Valinor - that you're mortal even if you're not aging and if you die I might lose you forever and then grieve alone forever, and that you're a girl and Eru said not to do that.

Okay... were they just planning to keep you cooped up in Doriath safe and not doing much for literally ever...?

I think so. 

That is horrible.

If the war ever ended it would have bothered me a lot. While the war was on it made a lot of sense - the Enemy'd love to get to me, it'd be really bad if he did, the Noldor'd love to get to me and then write my father proposing an alliance of marriage with the girl that they're holding prisoner and would really prefer not to do that to for very long...

Is it strategically especially bad if the Enemy gets you in particular or just emotionally distressing?

Depends on what he could make me do. I'm a lot more powerful than an Elf. I don't think I could ever be tortured into an oath of obedience but I haven't exactly much experience to make that assumption off.

...when you've got magical girl powers you can turn pain off, there's that.

So he can torture a lot of other people in front of me, force me to have children and torture them, I'm not sure how much less bad that is. But it's something.