Yeah, sounds about right. Well. She'll take less than an afternoon to get bored of ungarnished self-pity and fetch a book, but besides that.

He won't be bored of it for weeks but with Idaia right there he'll at least be distractible from it. Very distractible.

Trying to distract him with sex while he is feeling actively bad seems vaguely wrong but when she sleeps her brow smooths out and she smiles and cuddles closer and has good dreams when she gets to REM sleep.

He is very in favor of being distracted from moping by his lovely wife being lovely and alive, and tries to communicate as much, and adoringly watches her sleep.

And in the morning if his most prominent emotion is "adoring" instead of "mopey" she will happily seduce him.

...partial credit for adoringly mopey?

Well, she'll certainly kiss him, and see if the mopiness clears up after a little while of that.

That'll work.

Oh, excellent. Then she can totally distract him with her loveliness as thoroughly as one could wish.

That is very thoroughly. He'll only be the tiniest bit mopey afterwards.

If he is capable of any level of mopiness during lovely afterglowy snuggles then she clearly needs to up her game.

You are fantastic but not so fantastic I can't remember to regret not getting more of you.

True.

Mostly I deal with it by telling myself that we're going to have forever and someday millions of years from now we'll look back and go 'haha thirty thousand years how silly we were to be concerned over such a short span.'

That helps a lot. Thanks.

I guess I should have mentioned it sooner.

I can't really imagine a million years. Though a few thousand went by pretty fast when I was alive for them.

I can't either but I bet we can once it's happened.

Yeah. Love you.

I love you so much.

They visit Canada. It's not even very cold. The castle's stunning.

"I've missed non-discreet Quendi architecture," she says, admiring it.

"Moryo did a good job. We keep worrying someone'll fly over and find it and wonder - or get a good enough satellite picture -"

"I'm actually sort of surprised that hasn't happened yet."

"Usually Nelyo can get to it in time."

"Ah, that makes sense."