Do you think Maedhros is actually going to be...better? By the time we get all this sorted and moving?

Eventually. Although he says however much evidence he accumulates he's going to expect you to melt away the first time he holds you and on your wedding night. I told him that this might seem like a compliment if he mentioned that he also expected the hallucination to end when we cratered Angband. When it didn't he hugged me.

You're welcome.

I didn't know he was comfortable hugging people.

He's not. It was very irregular.

Thank you again. Tell Maedhros that I can actually find enough to occupy myself in the galaxy and he needn't make any work for me but if there happen to be things we're useful on together we will make them happen.

I'll pass it on.

I have no idea what to make of the thought he's doing wedding planning.

It's not very detailed wedding planning. He doesn't have a venue down to the level of which planet yet. And there's only so elaborate one can get with the guest list he projects.

He's inviting guests??

Well, not yet he isn't, but he said he'd invite his family and only Tyelcormo would be even a maybe.

.....do weddings mean something different in your galaxy?

Yes they do! We don't have weird soul grafting crap! The 'wedding' is the party. He is going to invite his family to a party. They will probably not come.

I should say not. Mine won't either.

Well, I'll go.

He sighs. Maedhros is more optimistic than I that this won't be an absurdly costly gesture. But thank you.

You're welcome.

Doriath otherwise peaceful?

Galadriel is herself. Maedhros may or may not have aimed her less irritatingly.

She walked in on us once and has been trying to figure out ever since whether she can actually use that to get anything she wants other than 'blowing up our family'.

Does she have redeeming qualities?

She's very very book smart. He shrugs. She hasn't ever told anyone, that I know of, and I really think I'd know. I'm not angry with her. If she actually gets in Maedhros' way he will probably stop indulgently treating her as his kid cousin.

He invited me to eavesdrop and I detected nothing indulgent about the exchange.

Trust him. He's good at what he does.