Who will wave at them both agreeably.

"Sorry about that," Kib says to Aydanci, and "Can we squirrel him away in my room now, rather than relying on everybody he runs into to be polite...?"

"Arranged," Maitimo says. "There was some confusion but it is being handled."

Confusion: is escalating. Maitimo is calmly explaining that since Men can be reborn after death clearly the Elven understandings of things does not apply here, does it? Yes, their conduct would be appalling for Elves.

Would anybody like to know what Kib looked like when he was a girl? Here is what Kib looked like when he was a girl. Does that help.

That does help. The marriage was obviously proper. And it's not that they should now be apart. But. What was Eru thinking? Also what if it gives Elves the wrong impression about acceptable conduct for Elves?

Gosh. That would be terrible, wouldn't it.

Oh there are so many things I could say to that question, sighs Kib. But I'm not going to. Congratulate me.

Congratulations! Do I want to know what things you'd say to that question?

Oh - 'but I already had my turn being the girl and obviously I got tired of it' - 'we haven't decided yet, would you care to produce detailed opinions about our sex life for us to factor in' - 'we're both this obscure human gender, you wouldn't have heard of it' -

Good.

I love you. Go to your hard-fought bed, I imagine he's feeling a little lost with all of this.

Oh, sorry, should I have chosen a stunning vista at Mingling for the occasion? Or return to the site of our first date - but I actually haven't taken you on a single one -

It might have been nice if you'd said it under circumstances where I could kiss you for saying it.

Well. You've said no such thing to me so can pick a kissable occasion to do so.

And after that production it's probably not worth chancing it and anyway they had a lovely time in Kib's world so the Elves sleep alone, and wake early, and busy themselves ferrying things for the portals.

Aydanci and Kib breakfast together in the basement room and then Kib ferries Aydanci some reading material and ventures out. Does he need to talk to any Valar? (Does Aydanci need to talk to any Valar? He doesn't really want to go wandering about unnecessarily; people stare at him and he was disconcerted by the mindreading incident.) Do people have more intrusive personal questions so that Kib can practice the virtue of not being scathing at them?

The Valar are inclined to summon them both but if Aydanci is unwell they can speak to Kib. People stare in the street but don't ask any intrusive personal questions.

Aydanci could be reasonably described as "not well", yes.