The child is fine; Tep's had him continuously since the little orcs came by and there's no stepmother drama.

If the Valar ever do find out they're going to explain to them how Eru sees it.

You know, I'm not entirely sure on this, but I think if the Valar were paying really close attention when Eru told them how he sees things the planet would be a sphere. But, you know, if Eru does have an opinion on Tep and Riaz I really don't care, I like them more than I like him.

A smile. Might be genuine. Hard to say. They are welcome here.

Good.

I don't have the latitude to raise it with my father but if there are problems, and you end up doing so, I expect he'll say that anyone wasting time on teaching Men that has appalling priorities and that you're welcome to tell them in his name to stop.

Ha. That'll do.

Not with the Nolofinweans, but otherwise, yes.

The Nolofinwëans in question did not attend the wedding but have restrained themselves from bothering the happy couple. Any of the happy couples.

There's multiple ones?

Tep and Riaz were the only ones who really wanted me to personally officiate their wedding, but there are others who were married by the same people who witness transactions of hours and take notes on official business, and some who are not married but coupled up, yes, these people have no birth control that isn't 'turning into a werewolf for lifelong sterility' and I did not let the Quendi preach at them very much and there are ten thousand of them!

How hard a problem is birth control?

I expect it to be trivial once I can go find some charitably inclined galactic medic and bring them to have a look at the Men with various devices that go beep, but I don't know how to do it and even if I wanted to dig my implant out since I'm sure as hell not using it I doubt it could be usefully reverse-engineered on the time scale the Men need to be developing their foundational norms.

I will make sure if I fight with your father about homosexuality I do it very loudly. Although I'm not sure that even thusly inclined Quendi are not a little scarily monogamous; I'd have to have some interesting conversations.

Tyelcormo strongly prefers girls but doesn't want to get married, ergo mostly has ridiculously short and ill-fated flings with men. I think that's a type, if not the most common type.

Short and ill-fated is definitely me and girls, although I usually try to go for 'amicably brief' over 'ill-fated' per se. It'd definitely be a step up from nothing.

And a step up from unaligned Ainur who only work for the Enemy part-time. The next one might not be so friendly with Thauron, and I'd rather you have other reasons not to go for it.

I wasn't all set to pounce on her before she said that or anything, I'd have to be reasonably confident that I didn't want to be armed and alert in her presence at all times and so on. Well, more armed than I am by being a frost giant.

I'm not questioning your judgment, just trying to think what resources we have to keep you happy and productive. And I'm lonely myself and perhaps empathize too much.

I'm coping. Productively, even. I will even visit a sketchy arms dealer or an infinity gem before I track down Sigyn once I have the spell managed. I am not a slave to my sex drive.

I expect that regaling your friends with tales of the stupid cylindrical planet and how you shredded its leadership will be more fun once all the fighting is over, anyway.

Well, if I'm going to tell them all the details I have to tell them what species I am, so I will probably start with friend, singular. But yes.

You don't expect 'I commanded the infinity stones, shredded some major deities because they had pissed me off, reshaped a planet, brought back the dead, and am a frost giant' to get a hostile reaction, surely? Are Asgardians stupid?

Well, Asgardians are in many respects noninterventionist. They'd think the first bit would be a splendid story but they would have considered it reasonable if I'd just left well enough alone. It's not going to compensate as well as it should, not for everyone. I'm not even sure on Thor, who I'd most like to be sure of. Frigg I am at least sure either knew all along or will know to lay the blame at Odin's feet and not mine. Miscellaneous acquaintances - yes, a lot of them are stupid, or act like it to fit in.