I am so glad of that.

I'm--sort of of four minds about it, right now, the first one is--hormones and stuff and the fact that I thought I was never going to be able to have kids because I was going to fail at curing age and die before I could rescue you from Mandos and now that's not true and you're here sending lightning bolts through my procreative instinct and the second one is slapping the first one upside the head and pointing out that we have the rest of forever and there's no rush and we should probably recover some more and the third one is all "okay but we're basically functional and desperately in love and yeah we should probably wait, like, a little while to get our heads screwed on straight and stop being so distracted but everything's basically fine now why not" and the fourth one is like WE THOUGHT VALINOR WAS SAFE TOO CAN WE EVER BE SURE ANYTHING IS SAFE ENOUGH EVER AGAIN!?

Oh, sweetheart. Once aging's cured.

Okay, that's a good milestone.

And won't be very long at all.

Yeah.

You know one thing I like about modern technology? Ultrasound. You get to see the baby before they're even born.

That sounds nice.

Mhm. It's not exactly a normal picture, but--she sends him images of ultrasound pictures as seen in various media.

Maybe someone can invent us a better one.

Maybe. Hey, if you recognized Daphne as having maybe-probably elf blood d'you know any more about first-generation hybrids?

They exist. Age like Men. If they chose to be Elves they looked older than most Elves - agelessly late thirties rather than agelessly mid-twenties, in mortal terms...in between on abilities and things, though some people think they're even prettier than Elves.

I suppose you wouldn't have been in much of a position to find out practical things about parenting one. Oh well. We can always go with plan do-everything-a-baby-of-either-species-would-need like we were originally planning.

Yeah. They don't contradict anywhere with the species you are now, either, do they?

Pretty sure it's the same species.

But no dreamshaping.

Well, Imliss and I can still do it, which leads me to suspect it's not so much a species thing.

Huh. What could it possibly be?

A world thing?

But it didn't just work in your home universe, worked here too...

Yeah, but I was born there.

What a weird way for magic to decide where it works.

This is just speculation, she shrugs.

I know. I'm just happy I have you.

I'm happy you have me too.

Shall we go get an apartment for while we're waiting on the house?