Mmmmm, compliments and cuddles. Cam is a happy birthday present.

He's so pretty, too. Flight muscles. Iobel, but a boy, with flight muscles. 

"biggest idiot in the multiverse" will probably be muttered aloud at some point.

Cam doesn't usually sleep, but this is so cozy it seems like it might call for sleeping.

He talks in his sleep too.

Of course he does. 

Mitros is not in love with Iobel and he is not in love with Cam but he's in love with, like, the intersection of the two. Best birthday present. He's going to be pleased about this for probably decades.

When Cam wakes up in the morning he will give Mitros a little kiss goodbye and slip out.

And at breakfast Iobel is smirky.

Her husband is going to lavish adoring gazes on her all breakfast.

"Did you have a good birthday?" she giggles.

"I did! I am trying to think how I can possibly get you something as good."

"I might get the exact same thing but it would be a present to myself, so to speak. You will have to be creative."

"He said something about that." He giggles and shakes his head. "I highly recommend it. ...if you can search the multiverse for ideal boyfriends that solves the problem of finding one discreetly, too."

"Yes it does. Although in the longer run I might want one less inclined to perpetually world-hop than Cam is, since I do have this country and supposedly I am to expect an empire."

"Not in time for your birthday, but indeed you shall."

"Good."

"If your ideal boyfriend finds being a secret a dealbreaker - it'd bother Cam a lot, I am uncertain how closely he approximates your ideal boyfriend other than the worldhopping - I'm planning to eventually reshuffle power so we're emperor and empress regnant and then you can openly have your own consort, people can say what they like."

"Sounds good. I think I'd work very well with an alt of myself, just not this one and not right now, not as a romance as opposed to a little fun."

He nods. "Presumably you come in 'straight boy'? I've been assuming there's no reason to think orientations and genders are fixed just because my family happens to be a neat duplicate of Maitimo-the-biggest-idiot-in-the-multiverse's."

"I seem to come in 'straight girl' and 'bisexual boy' so it would be odd if I never came in 'straight boy' but the sample size is two, so I'm not sure."

"Bisexual boy also works though I can't totally promise I will not occasionally hit on bisexual boy versions of you."

"I figured."

And that afternoon he finds Maitimo and tells him he is the biggest idiot in the multiverse.

"I think Elves might be more monogamously inclined and slower to get over things than humans," Maitimo says.

"I mean, it's not strictly my business if you want to spend the next five centuries single."

"I do."

"You're still the biggest idiot in the multiverse."

"If I'd been smarter," he says, "I could have found out what Melkor was planning fifty Years sooner and maneuvered the Valar into stopping him and saved everyone."

"That too, I guess, though even Dad didn't do that..."

"And then yes I suppose there wouldn't have been a war on and maybe I'd have liked the boy equivalent of the girl you married under completely different circumstances."

"Mmmm hmmmm," Mitros says. 

And eventually there is a worldleaper, lightleaper distance from the planet, and who wants to come to Endorë and see the place and check if they can summon?

Fannar! And an elderly person who'll probably die soon so at least they'll know quickly whether this hooks them into Cam's native afterlife system.

Cool. Elves: stay here or go home?

Elves will go home, their local counterparts seem to have things well in hand.