I cannot imagine how I'd live without it. Findekano and I only interact face-to-face once every few weeks, we'd go mad.

Well, that's a separate problem.

One I'm very glad you two no longer have.

It's pretty great. I wish you and Findekáno could conveniently remember a past life or something.

One of us could switch. We did discuss it at one point. Don't want to.

I wouldn't have wanted to; it's something about the reincarnation process that makes it sit okay. Not what I meant, anyway, I just meant I wish you had a loophole.

I appreciate that. We are both of us happy and able to pursue the things we care about; I do not write myself dramatic self-pitying songs very often. Though I was going to write one if you ran off and never came back.

I would've visited.

I find your presence very distracting when I cannot kiss you!

Oh, well, then, clearly there would have been nothing to be done and sad songs would be the way to go.

You'd visit and I'd still write sad songs. I have never lost a person before, it would have been very distressing.

I wouldn't have been thrilled about it either.

I hope when Aydanci recovers this is still a solution that makes him happy.

Me too. I will not get more willing to leave you over time.

More bursts of intense and entirely invisible affection. They're nearly back at the palace.

I currently feel sort of weird about sending out my own emotions and will need to sort that out but I assure you that I have them.

It is not at all a standard or expected thing to do. And if you have none and are only kissing me because I'm very pretty this is an entirely unobjectionable state of affairs.

What, really?

Only because I'm confident in my ability to eventually change it. People not being in love with me is so much more tractable than people not wanting to kiss me.

Aha. I lack this particular skill and it would - I think separately - drive me nuts if somebody I was with turned out to just want to kiss me because I was pretty.

I have not kissed very many people but - I would not kiss someone I did not admire very deeply. How they felt about it, beyond 'they had better very badly want to kiss me', would trouble me less.

I'm happy with how I look - Aly was too for that matter up until how she looked was 'poxy' - but I don't, mm, identify with it? In the way I would have to be to be properly flattered by pure physical attraction.

It is a good thing that everyone who wants you wants your extraordinary personality, then.

Yes, yes it is.

And they part ways.