"I have been very busy inventing immortality."

"I appreciate that," says Kib. "If this is a bad time after all..."

"It is still a Year's work, and now's not uniquely inconvenient."

How do we turn this into not talking in front of your brothers?

Nicely done.

Feanáro watches them go and then sits down. "What do you need?"

"I suspect you are annoyed with me."

He nods, almost approvingly. "And you want to explain yourself?"

I might need more to go on than suspecting you're annoyed with me to know what to explain. Being married? Not figuring out I was married earlier? Gushing about my husband constantly as discretion-by-contrast in compensation for my difficulty with absolute discretion?

You were unaware you were married a month ago?

Yes! I didn't remember! I got my dreams in a really irritating order. The only ones I had after I met Aydanci, let alone married him, had him not present or on Aly's mind at the time, or else I was slightly too poxy to string thoughts together, and I had like five minutes of watching an eclipse talking about co-teaching but without context he could've been just a friend.

And then you learned you were married and have been enjoying yourself ever since. Very reasonable.

I got my engagement and my death and my wedding, all in one night, and I did not know then if he would want me back but I could not let him continue to think I was dead.

I do not think you should have done.

So I didn't. And he did want me. He did not, if you're wondering, tell me that I had to dump my boyfriend.

Pretty much.

What a good solution for you.

I detect subtext.

I am less confident that's a satisfactory solution for anyone else.

Aydanci will not be served by my trying to compromise what I want for his obsolete abstract interests, his priorities as they stand now have 'is my spouse alive and happy' in the first forty slots. If Maitimo doesn't like sharing he is free to dump me, I won't make a fuss or publicly mope or anything.

I suspect I will now be able to be in public locations with Maitimo without anybody suspecting we're an item on the grounds that clearly if we were I would not be able to shut up about it and also have I mentioned I am married today, etcetera.

He nods. Reluctantly, but approvingly. That's probably a good idea. At least while people are still dying in your world and openly telling the Valar to fuck off is unwise.