If you wanted to write him a letter, I could sit with you while you did it, give it straight into his hand...

I'll have one for you next time.

Sure.

You sure everything is okay? You've seemed a little subdued these last few times.

Shrug. I'm a perpetual malcontent with things to malcontent about.

Ones I don't know about?

No.

I occasionally worry you're going to burn out on this.

Do I seem likely to?

Five subjective decades of very fiddly technical work while the Enemy's quiet and we don't know where he'll hit from next? Most people would. You are very not most people but that's why I only occasionally worry.

I do assume people will let me know if I'm needed to deal with Enmity.

There won't be family drama unless you want us to have some for entertainment purposes. We are usually collectively pretty good at priorities.

I can find other things to occupy myself. I have done. Orc field trips and sparring and flying around and swimming and picking up new music.

His smile is only slightly envious. Oh, good.

What I actually miss is having an enormous library. So many of the books I didn't print out eidetically are in verse and that's really hard to appreciate through Allspeak.

You should ask my father to compose you some Asgardian poetry, he'd do quite well at it.

Not a bad idea! Or I could just get him to teach me a local language.

Yes, that'd also do it.

I've never properly learned one before. Eidetic memory makes it far more appealing.

It goes very quickly in general. Father's good at learning them and good at teaching how to learn them.

Rote memorization is tedious, but with that magically handled it's just the parts that sound fun.

Eidetic memory was a good idea, we should have done that one long ago.

I sometimes have good ideas.

And sometimes have silly ones that work out quite well.

What are you thinking of there?