We have magic for the clumsiness. A ring. Should have brought it with me, I'm sorry, that was thoughtless.

I figured it was something like that but he was never actively thinking about it being the ring in any dreams I got!

Yeah there's a lot that it looks like hasn't come through yet.

He sits down.

...uh, like what.

She sits too.

Don't know where to start. You got that in Valinor we - had to be a secret, because Elves aren't supposed to -

Not as such, actually, I picked that up off the Little Valinor infosheet and from how people here talked about Kib.

Okay. So - Kib grows up here, gets eaten by a weird snake, lands in Valinor, meets me. I am horrified about the babies dying and we start brainstorming things to do about it. He starts writing a scriber for the palace libraries, working with my father on understanding mortality, playing games of Governor with me. I liked him a lot. I told Findekáno about cute things he did, constantly. 

There was a party, in public, lots of people, and he said he was gay, and I snapped at him that that was awful and he'd better not hit on anyone there - I am, um, also gay, but was terrified people'd guess... and then we avoided each other miserably for a week until Findekáno decided to ask him out- 

Wow, I know you recovered from that somehow but I don't have anything on how it happened.

Findekáno! Asked Kib to a concert, suggested to him that he demand an apology from me - Kib'd thought I had set him up for it on purpose, in addition to being homophobic and rude about it - Kib was annoyed when he realized I was the boyfriend Findekáno'd occasionally mentioned, felt like he'd been acquired for me, but we all talked through it...

Awww we're adorable.

Yeah it was - it was really nice. And then after a while Kib dreamed he'd had a husband, he woke up between us in bed one morning and said 'I'm married' and wanted to go find him, so we did, and he was - very unhappy, very alone...

I remember a snatch of having only recently found him. Has he been holding up, the last couple decades...?

Working himself half to death but let us take enough care of him that he did not actually die.  Barely talks to anyone. He'll definitely cry on you a lot.

Helped, like I said, kill the Enemy. He killed the disease that got you the first time, too.

My poor Aydanci.

...so when you say you are also gay, um, how gay.

I could ask Lórien to fix it.

You died for us. I don't - I'm sorry -

That doesn't mean you have to go get mind-controlled for me and what about Findekáno!

I can - barely let him touch me anyway, I'm kind of - not really okay -

I do remember that towards the end of Kib's life it was not so much a touching thing. That he kind of thought about a lot.

Yeah. Still don't - still don't know if anything's real but I'm acting like it is.

Anyway it doesn't seem like it makes much difference if you aren't touching me because you're gay when anyway you wouldn't be because you're traumatized and one of these options involves mind control and being horrible to Findekáno and -

- him too?

Yeah.

Aydanci's reincarnated, is he still -

Kib thought his sexuality might be a persistent personality trait. He'll - yeah, definitely -