I hadn't realized you still separated them now that he's the King and privy to all our state secrets.

I do not consider the workings of my mind to be state secrets.

Fair enough. I'm happy for you. Good skill, send it to Maitimo later.

Love you.

And Maitimo's packet that evening contains a writeup of the conversation with Aydanci. It went so well Aydanci is so great!

You have very good taste!

This makes some options for the violent endgame of this hallucination more likely and others less likely. He does not make this observation aloud.

Yes I do. And good parent-picking, full marks.

I have to earn my keep somehow. 

Well, they got him exactly like himself, only a little visible 'wow, really really raised by Elves, aren't you' which is not particularly doing me a disservice here.

Awwwwwww.

Giggle. And then I get to feel slightly hypocritical for hoping he doesn't want to pick up where we left off until he's, like, a little older, but like I told Findekáno fifteen and eighteen are genuinely different things.

This world's years are longer than yours, even outside Valinor! About fifty days longer! If the length of a day is the same, which I actually haven't checked, you were only fifteen of this planet's years.

Lost world days are a little longer.

Oh, all right. I will refrain from suggesting you are hypocritical.

Thank you.

Do you have to go or would you like to lie down here for a little while? After a year of still hugs he decided this was something he wanted, with several layers of intervening blankets.

I don't have to go. Kib goes and wraps up as much as is called for. Flomp. Holding still.

I'm very happy for you two.

Thanks.

You have excellent taste.

Mmmm-hm. Contented sigh.

He sighs, too, and promises himself that this scenario should last at least a few subjective years longer, and leans over to kiss Kib on the forehead. It is not a very romantic kiss because there are a lot of blankets very deliberately in the way and also he is crying.

- you okay? ...I know you are not okay, I mean more like, are you below baseline in some way I could conceivably do anything about.

I am above baseline. Something good happened to you. 

Okay. I love you.

And I wish Kib and Aydanci much happiness together.