Good.

"I'm glad he seems mostly okay, now. Considering--everything."

"Yeah."

They find their temporary rooms and settle in. Imliss decides to go exploring.

It's a very distinctly Elven palace but very different than Tirion's. And it's huge. 

Yeah.

She considers osanweing someone but she doesn't know who's busy and who's not and doesn't want to--insert herself--if someone's busy.

Well, after a while someone walking through the halls will say "Imliss! The King wants to see you."

ohgood.

She asks directions.

She is directed.

She goes and finds him. ...She hopes there aren't a lot of other people around.

He's in his office. It's empty. He hugs her.

She hugs him as hard as her human arms will get her and cries.

He hugs her back and doesn't say anything for a while.

"I missed you," she says after the tears have stopped. "...I thought you weren't real, I thought I was making you up, and I still missed you--I thought, all of forever, someday I'm going to meet the King, and I--didn't know if I would hate him for not being you or love him for how close to you he would have to be--"

I missed you very dearly. I am glad you found us.

I'm sorry we didn't just get on the damn boats when you told us to.

I wouldn't be apologizing for that to any of the others but Macalaure said you tried to stop them--

It was a terrible decision. I understand why he made it and what he was afraid of but it was a terrible decision.

Yeah. I don't--there's no point in being mad at him about it, it's been thousands of years--but it was a terrible decision and if Tyelcormo had been awake to realize we were missing I'd be glad we'd accidentally stayed behind.

Might've swayed him, yeah. I'm not sure. He was in a pretty terrible place.

Yeah, that reminds me. Idaia should probably not have contact with Galadriel in the near future. I mean, not that I thought that was super likely by default, but, yeah.

It has been thirty thousand years. What is she likely to do?

I don't think she's likely to do anything, but--we haven't experienced all the time in between, and last time we were interacting with her she was--almost certainly partly responsible for burning the boats, and she wasn't someone it would be painful to have strong negative emotions towards, so. I think it could be unpleasant for Idaia to have to be polite to her before she's had more time to get used to the dreams being real but it being thirty thousand years later.

Well, I can definitely arrange that. Thank you.

You're welcome.

...Do you remember when we had just arrived in Tirion and I expressed insecurity related to how young I was and therefore how little time I'd had to learn things?

Vividly. Don't worry, it didn't take you long to think of things we hadn't back then and it won't now.