They mentioned an infirmary...

Might notta been paying any attention.

We should get my alt up here, check, get the pills if it's not too late...

That's gonna be an awkward conversation, you wanna do it?

I really don't wanna leave this room until we know, can you just--ask her to come up without saying why?

Squeeze. Snuggle. Uh, Edie?

Yeah?

Can you come up real quick.

...Hadn't finished getting back down the stairs. Sure. 

Wait really? It's been, like, I think less than a week but I'm not sure, could easily have been a week - does that mean it might feel like several days before you get here -

It doesn't seem to generally be quite that inconvenient.

Cool. Well, thank you for coming back. 

And to Idaia, "she's on her way. How long does it even take before you can tell -"

"I--I don't know--"

"Well, it's not very likely, and we probably wouldn't be able to tell yet, and it's okay no matter what, we're here and safe..."

"Okay. Okay. 

I love you so much."

"I love you so much. Let's be less stupid about it - let's have kids in ten years once we're more okay -"

"Yeah.

If it's not too late."

"Not likely."

"I know."

"I love you."

"I know. I love you too.

I know it's not likely. I know waiting ten years is better on every possible axis.

But I want it so much."

"Oh, Idaia. We'll be very good parents, once we're - once I'm - I haven't even told you everything that happened during the war, I murdered a lot of people -"

"Tell me," she murmurs.

So he does, not as coherently or in as much order as Nelyo told everyone downstairs, and without much detail after his death in Doriath -

And she hugs him, and presses her forehead against his, and is sad and loves him.