I'll do my best.

Hey, that one's not even a hard problem.

Yeah, should be able to manage. ...He confirmed what you said about how he'd feel about being yelled at while he died.

He's an exceptionally thoughtful and reasonable person but no one at all would hold that against you. I bet when he dreams the memory he will feel very deeply loved.

Yeah, you're right, I knew you were right, just.

When I got to the part where 'so you met this girl named Aly' he guessed that he married her and wanted to know if she was okay and I switched to first person earlier than I'd meant to. It was so cute.

Awwwww.

So I said I was fine. And he said, 'Good.' Like - well, it was fairly indescribable but very heartwarming.

And immortality's sorted, you two have forever, my father thinks he can win this war in a hundred years....

It'll be lovely.

It will. When it's peaceful we'll petition the Valar to open the portals again and with the new assembly line methods we can have golems doing all work in the lost world, so it'll be post-scarcity too.

You think they'll open up?

We will have just killed one Vala...

Do they even react like normal people to threats? And even if they do, it would be nice to get the thing without having to hold the whatever to their incorporeal heads.

No, they don't respond normally to threats. I do think once this world's safe they'll be persuadable on the portals, though.

And then everything will be so quietly busy I will get around to writing my novel.

It'll be lovely.

Mm-hm. Siiiiiigh.

That was probably the sound of Thauron remembering - or checking and realizing - Maitimo does not believe any of this. Oh, well. Lovely while it lasted. He relaxes into the pressure he can feel even through blankets.

I'm either gonna doze off and you'll have to have the golem shake me awake or I'm gonna have to go in like the next five minutes, yawns Kib, this is very cozy.

By all means stay.

'Kay.

He does in fact doze off.

The random nouns are random, and nouns. "Precipice. Inspiration. Leather. Cloud."

And he wiggles in his sleep and Maitimo doesn't sleep but that's okay.

"NECTARINE -"

And he wakes up with Maitimo's forearm with the severed hand on the back of his head shoving him into the pillows and Maitimo's other hand on his mouth. 

"-mph -"