There were so many things. Once I figured out Valinor was slowing me down I fixed it and I got so fast...

I wish I had figured it out, I could have had so much more time.

I think it was my really high expectations for being in a science world that did it and it still took me a Year.

I was there for a lot longer than a Year.

You were distracted. By someone who was not a tiny Fëanáro.

It's true. His siblings teased us about it kind of a lot.

Giggle.

One time we spent most of a Year at a beach house and--Elves swim naked, I'm sure you know that.

Yes, I do. But not unbraided, oh no.

I explained that they were the same thing. He called me 'you poor thing' so of course I had to retaliate by very deliberately imagining unbraiding my hair at him.

Bella cackles. I just got over it, there's some species that treat nudity really differently in Materia. Nymphs are religiously obliged to go around stark naked literally all the time and public decency laws don't apply to them or anyone within, I forget, ten feet of them.

Oh, I didn't care about any other swimming Elves, but--naked husband.

Yeah, that'd change things.

And it's not like they don't have good reason for the hair thing.

Do they?

The scalp is kind of a serious erogenous zone.

I did not actually know that!

Well, you never made out with any Elves, as far as I know, I don't know that it would have come up.

It's true, I did not.

The hair thing didn't come up until after I had already all-unknowing put my hands in his while kissing him.

Well, at least you didn't do it in an otherwise innocent context?

That would have been embarrassing.

I avoided it but pretty much by coincidence.

Oh?

Someone told me to braid my hair without explaining, and I think once or twice I may have patted Fëanáro on the head or something but he was really small so it wasn't a big deal, Rúmil just explained. I got very conscientious about it. When I loaned Fëanáro my magic necklace I put it on him by teekay.