"I think now that we learned humans are safe some people find a human. And some people remarry when their spouse is dead. I do not know of anyone trying to marry again while already married to a living person."

" - Elves are weird."

"Elves are mind-controlled into compliance. Or were, until recently."

(Beka bets that Other Beka would have wanted to get married if she could but she doesn't say so.)

"Well, maybe eventually you'll figure out how to subvert the weird way your marriage works or someone will be willing to try it."

"That would be nice."

"But in the meantime you'll cut it out?"

"I'm not even on the same planet as him right now!"

"But once the war's over -"

"Yeah, we'll figure something out. That is okay with him, and not because I did something misleading. I can't promise it'll be okay with everybody because they honestly do have a lot of random taboos."

"They have never surprised me by having strong moral opinions about something. The opposite, really."

"What were your Valar like?"

While they are discussing this Macalaurë goes over to request a hug of his Beka.

Assuming the local will relinquish her she is happy to hug him!

Hug. Other Beka would want to get married? Not you?

...well, marriage is a floaty magical eternal Elfy thing for people who are probably monogamous and probably in an approximately equal relationship and stuff and while she has been quite content with matters as they stand it doesn't strike her as marital. But like, that's okay, since she can't get married.

Well, maybe someday they'll figure out how.

She wouldn't object if he wanted to for some reason but it hadn't occurred to her as an obvious upgrade the way it might've occurred to the other Beka to dream about it.

I hadn't really thought about it because of the being impossible. But you're not a prisoner anymore so if it were something you wanted it might not be hard to arrange the things you'd need for it.

Snuggle.

And maybe someday we can get the other Beka back.

That would be great. They got a dead Maitimo back without going through Mandos the once.

Yeah, but they had his soul, right? This is kind of a lot to take in.

Yeah, so complicated.

Hug. I think their specific form of the rule is stupid but 'people can tell you to back off' is a good rule.