"Abbadon Valar can't even Doom people. Lucky bastards."

"That explains the Tyelcormo and Idaia not having gotten married within a couple months, though."

"Yeah. Although I do also think having recently lost--everything--made Idaia more willing to make reckless commitments when she found someone who would never, ever do that to her. And Edie doesn't have that."

"Sure, couple months, not 'one week'. Doubt they'd have lasted years."

"You may be right. Or they might have avoided the specific act that does it." 

"And we're at the limits of my desire to speculate about my brother and your sister's private lives. Even if it is alternate universe versions."

"So completely agreed."

"I am now morbidly curious who desires other men - or other women, if they're women - in Abaddon but I shouldn't look, it'd be rude."

"Given that you're describing your curiosity as morbid you're probably right."

"My world's versions wouldn't want people to know, so finding out seems underhanded, even if it could never conceivably affect them."

"Well, I can't advise going out of your way not to find out either, but that makes sense."

"Unless people are walking around hand-in-hand it probably won't come up."

"I'll ask the Tyelcormo not to discuss his ex-boyfriends in front of you."

"He has ex-boyfriends? And goes around discussing them unless warned off?"

"To the best of my knowledge he has not yet gone around publicly discussing exes but who knows."

"Doesn't seem like the kind of thing he'd do."

"He might plausibly mention ex-boyfriends just because our Valinor was homophobic."

"Now that does seem like the kind of thing he'd do."

"I know, right?"

"Do either of you have people who should be here - it'd be a bad idea to get in the way of social ties you've built, we may all be here a very long time..."

"Idaia has a friend. Maybe Edie should have grabbed her while she was grabbing Idaia. I mean, I have friends, Idaia has friends, but--there's a difference between the shallow kinds of friendships you incidentally acquire with people you happen to see everyday, and someone you'd be actually upset to not see for a long time."

"Alright. If you don't need people we probably won't bring them into the loop just out of general friendliness."

"Grabbing Daphne would probably be best for Idaia's long-term mental health but can definitely wait until she's not spending almost all of her time holed up upstairs with her husband, so it would be convenient if we could have one having-the-door-open session for fetching the Venus Silmaril and Daphne both."

"The demons think someone somewhere has what they'd need for the Venus Silmaril."

"Do they not?"