It is an excellent party, which is only to be expected with two obliging demons and a Macalaure in attendance.

It is a lovely party. He's having a lovely engagement party. With eleven of his father present. This is so so not how he imagined his life going but he kisses Edie a lot and it's definitely not as awful to have social events when practically everyone attending is a version of someone in your family. 

(His cousin Findekáno does not attend - mid-test of something tricky, he says in the note he sends with his regards.)

How did you imagine your life relevantly going?

Royal weddings are a Huge Deal and it's terrible, I was planning to skip it all and go on a vacation and then come back and announce it'd been a honeymoon.

Well, I'm glad we get at least some of your family for our wedding.

Yeah, that bit's nice. 

If we had had to elope I would have insisted on bringing Emily for the wedding. 

We wouldn't have had to elope - well, we couldn't have gotten married at all because you're a demon but besides that if you'd wanted a proper royal wedding I'd have done it, just -

That sounds like a huge hassle. Anyway, I meant the hypothetical where I never find Milliways, not the one where we never left Valinor.

And we probably blow up Earth when we learn about the torture server farms and we kill all the orcs if we don't manage to summon him back before they do -

And that would have been profoundly awful but it wouldn't have made me not love you.

Oh, Edie. Kiss. Even the Noldor might not have been in the mood for a giant wedding festival, after that.

Kiss. Well, regardless.

This way's good.

Much better.

We should probably talk about being-married stuff like responsible adults.

Oh?

I mean, not necessarily right now--right now we should dance, actually, this is a good song for it--but at some point we should discuss things like kids and how we're going to live after the Melkors are dead and we have reliable interworld travel and the answer isn't "Milliways" and stuff like that.

Dancing. Yeah, okay. Uh, I think Maitimo thinks the answer to the latter is 'you terraform a lot of planets and stuff for him, being the only demon with good PR he can trust'.

Fair. But that's my job, not what I come home to.

What'd'you want to come home to?

I'm not sure, exactly. But we've got time to figure it out.

Yeah.

...Preliminary thoughts on kids?

Definitely, someday. 

Good. 

...Any idea what kind of someday?