Hugs: Good. Small breakfast, half of lunch. Shouldn't skip dinner completely but I'm okay, yeah.

You can tell him to cut it out. He will.

Yeah, I know. If I need a break I have better options than that - I have a pretty good idea of what I can tolerate, I've been through worse than this.

I know it doesn't feel like it but it's probably a good sign that he's acting on wanting something even though it's making the person he's dependent on unhappy.

Mmhmm. Which is why I'm letting them do it, mostly.

But it'd be okay to make him put that on people who love him and who he won't hurt.

She sighs and hugs him again. That won't actually work in this case and we should stop talking about it now.

Okay. 

And she hugs him again and gets back to work.

And eventually he reminds her to eat dinner.

Yeah, thanks. Hug. I'll be back in the morning for a little bit.

Okay. Still don't think it's a good idea for us to talk to him?

Uh, probably. But I expect they would say no if I asked, now, so I can do that.

Okay.

See you tomorrow. She hugs him again and then teleports.

Still carving. He smiles at her. 

She mostly suppresses the resulting wince. Good day?

Lovely. Yours?

City's coming along nicely. It's neat to get to watch one being built like this.

Sounds like you're doing a lot more than watching!

Well, yes, that too. She can't help but grin a little.

I"m so glad they'll have a safe and lovely city.

Yeah.

So, Findekáno'd like to talk to you again. I haven't told them what's going on, they just know I'm unhappy and don't think it'd help anything for them to know why. Which is true, you shouldn't talk to them if you don't want to.

You're unhappy because if there's nothing I can do to help in the war then I will get to die?

I don't mind that you have the option. I'm upset that you're so enthusiastic about taking it. I still don't want anyone to bother you about it, though, you were obviously unhappy about it when you thought I was going to.