...that's really not the point and it will slightly complicate adding the golems to existing fleets if they're not the same design as their legacy counterparts but, okay, Hresk doesn't have a fleet of these yet, it can have pretty ones.

They're willing to stick with the standard design if they can do elaborate gilding and detailing work, can they do that?

Detailing yes gilding please don't we don't want people attacking golems to get the gilt off and gold is still scarce in the human world.

Humans are so weird.

Humans have economic scarcity and do not care as much about things being pretty, if that's what they mean.

Humans might attack a medical golem for gold. That's just weird.

It would probably be, like, a starving human.

...in that case they should send the medical golems with gold, so starving humans can eat it. They didn't even know humans ate gold.

Humans do not eat gold and giving them gold will not fix the starving thing, gold can be exchanged for food because and only because there is not very much gold around.

Yes, well, they're on the case. There are those nice restaurants with the info sheets and free food, to start.

And no additional comments on Kib's husband are made.

Well, Kib can't stop commenting on his husband for more than a minute at a time (Operation: Flagrantly Married) (is this the tea shop? ~Kib's husband~ likes tea!) (etcetera) but he's glad that was over with so relatively quickly!

These will get glares and awkward shuffles but no comments, in fact!

That is fine!

After a week the absence of notes and questions and test results from Feanáro becomes notable.

Oh, he's probably mad at you and responding by inventing you immortality so he can be as rude as he likes when he gives it to you and you still find yourself badly positioned to complain. That's a thing he does. We should go explain.

Now work for you?

It does.

Off they go. How's my discretion-by-comparison doing?

I have been thoroughly enjoying it and expect there to be no problems. Monogamy is an even more inbuilt assumption than heterosexuality.

I was a little worried that Aydanci being such a shut-in would make it harder to sell. But people stare at him and he's more introverted than I am and basically just wants to hole up and not interact with people who aren't me.

Was he like that in Aly's memories, or is it grief? If the latter, you two could consider a renewed-honeymoon to Lorien, it really is good for that sort of thing...

Some of both. What about it is good for that sort of thing?