"Thanks! We had to put it off a lot because Maitimo was dead for a while."

"Gosh, what terrible luck we have. What happened to him?"

"Explosion. It was the Enemy being a dick."

"Who would think it of him."

"So is your brother in law less creepy about his cousin," Pink II asks Pink I.

"...huh?" asks Pink I. "Which cousin? Which brother in law?"

"I guess that's a yes," says Pink II. "Maybe I'll move in with you. If that's okay."

"I mean, I don't mind..."

"If I died I'd be straight now."

"I am pretty sure he was just straight to start. Maybe got it fixed centuries ago but that's none of our business," says local Macalaurë.

"It's not about whether you're straight," says Pink II.

"He didn't go through Mandos, they got him back with Silmarils and stuff instead," says Pink I, "but I don't think he was gay to begin with..."

"Oh, good for them, anything would be better than Mandos. He might not have been, you all don't perfectly match, right -"

"Pekas are the only ones who like girls," his brother says. "Or we know that the standard yous are reckless and silly - they go to the parley - maybe they'd go to Lórien also."

Shiver. "Maybe."

Beka is still snuggling local Macalaurë.

My Beka said 'Sauron's boyfriend', he says to her, and he was upset, he doesn't want people to know that.

Oh. Okay.

...more snuggles? Will more snuggles solve whatever problem this is?

Well, they're definitely very nice. Your Maitimo is still there, huh. 

Yeah, guess so.

Hug.

Sorry.

It is not your job to rescue my brother from Angband.

I guess. But I was gonna and apparently I coulda.

And then you'd have died. Like you did here.

S'pose. I didn't swear anything, after, I just stay tied up or guarded all the time and I'm not allowed to sing magic that hasn't been vetted.

I should've arranged that but I thought we could be clever, do an oath with an escape clause - I'm sorry -