"Yeah, that's different. Vampires have really amped-up tactile senses in general but nothing scalp-specific."

"I assumed it had to be different for everyone else as soon as I met anybody else. You can tell versions of your mother that touching an Elf's hair is like kissing the back of their neck."

...Elspeth has some practice aggressively NOT REMEMBERING her parents' honeymoon.

(Golden has some practice holding perfectly unbreathingly still and not doing anything that would dredge up more of this memory when Elspeth makes that face.)

(Loki just snickers.)

Poor Elspeth. "If you actually want the memories removed, the Valar do that."

"That might be nice."

"Can they be very. Very. Selective?"

"The Enemy once made me forget the names of everyone I knew, just the names. Not trusting them is reasonable but it's definitely in their abilities to be exceptionally selective."

Wow. ...okay, so maybe next time she reasonable-izes some Valar she will mention this.

"I assume if Mandos can save people you blast he'll do it by wiping all the memories they were blasted with and then trying to feed them back their own lives."

"Do the Flat Arda ones keep running backups like that?"

"Not backups, no. He doesn't have anything until a soul enters his custody. But he can read all your memories including erased or tampered ones. I would have considered asking his aid after the war if my father didn't have the retroactive eidetic memory necklaces. The majority of the survivors of Angband prefer not to remember it - if that weren't true I wouldn't have told space Arda they'd better not even think about rescue sims..."

"I do hope he can fix them. Especially the mercy-kill."

"I am going to kill my alt."

Yes, he's said that, and then she said the Findekáno might object and then he said he could persuade him but this might not be a good idea, remember?

"One-track mind, I guess. Though I'm leaning toward it being a good idea to talk to him, after someone else mentions to him incidentally that I have so much sexual trauma if hit on I will have a panic attack."

"I'll warn him for you if you like."

"More because I want him to know it's off the table and that's not because I find a fault in him than because it'd actually be a problem; I have wholly internal panic attacks."

...that still seems kind of problem-ish to Elspeth but she can also convey this clarification if he likes.

"But it's my problem, and I shouldn't like to make it his. Thank you."

"You're welcome. Where are they?"

He sends it.

Elspeth bounces it to Loki, who shuffles her along since not even the vampire has read the entire teleportation spell yet.

Hi Findekános?

They got him a nice room and an eidetic memory necklace and Delight is teaching him how to use a computer.

"Hello, Elspeth," Findekano says.