"He can also correspond with us on strategy, it's just a challenge because he's paranoid."

"Understandable."

"...you okay?"

"If Mai--Maedh--Matthew--whatever--if he's not okay and never will be again then that is a thing that can happen to people and Morgoth's not dead and I'm scared."

"Yeah, we should also all start carrying the means to commit suicide."

"Yeah." She snuggles closer to her husband.

He hugs her. "Okay. That everything?"

Imliss glances at Curufin. "For now, I think."

"Do we have a ride back to the hotel, or should we take a driver who won't mind hairpetting -"

"It's barely noon. 'Done talking strategy' does not mean 'done spending time with my sister'."

"Okay, okay."

"You can molest her follicles any time. I'm usually on the other side of a continent from her."

"I said 'okay, okay'. Be all sisterly, I won't even make faces."

She comes over to sit down next to them and joins the hug.

"Sorry we couldn't have lived in a world where we won and the Silmarils shone from a shiny pretty capital city of a united world government and when you started having the dreams -"

"Man, that would have been harder to get people to believe in some ways. Yes, my sister is the reincarnation of the Grieving Prince's dead wife, no I'm not just making it up..."

"All I'd have needed would be to see her, obviously -"

"Yes, because you would totally have been hanging around civilization where we could easily arrange to be visible to you at some point in time instead of wandering over some mountain range or other where our only hope would be to convince someone to let us in to see the rest of the family and let them find you."

"Point taken! I would be very wandering mountain ranges. I bet Nelyo'd still take public audiences, he loved that people could just wander in and trust him to solve their problems."

"The world has a population of billions. I'm not saying we wouldn't have been able to pull it off eventually but even in small individual countries like Great Britain getting to see the royalty is tricky."

"Wish we could have made that your biggest problem."

"We deal with what we have in front of us." Hug.

Yeah.

Plus: despite how much time we end up spending together, no one has yet accused me of dating my TA.

Why's that a plus?