...Oh.

Okay. No hurry, I guess.

There really, really isn't.

Mhm.

Wanna meet our new parents?

I'd love to! 

Okay! I'm pretty sure I remember the way to our rooms--oh, but you'd know--actually, how much research have you done on my family?

I got a report that was a page long.

Without knowing the contents of that page I'm not really sure where to start...

Ah, I have names and what they do and what aspects of their life are public record and that's approximately all.

Okay. So Mom's got this sort of subtle dual-nature thing going on--she probably only told Macalaure she's a librarian but if you have public record on her you've also seen that she's a martial artist--and, like, depending on context she alternates between--a librarian who knows martial arts or a martial artist who likes books? Does that make sense?

I think so.

Dad cares about people a lot, but he's not really god at figuring out how to help them by himself, so he--finds people who are good at helping people and helps them do that. It's how he and Mom met, actually, the whole librarian thing isn't just organizing books. Mom's mother is very, mm, aggressively human? She's a dancer and a human and she really resents it when people say she must have Elf blood to be as good at it as she is, or otherwise compliment her by comparing her to an Elf, and she is really good at it. When she's in a professional setting she's perfectly capable of being professional as can be but in private she's disdainful of formality on a level I can only compare to Tyelcormo. Mom's father is a librarian too, but he's much more with the rare and old books and much less with the helping people find them.

Nod. Squeeze. 

Mom's stepfather is good at predicting when someone is on the tipping point of making a bad life choice and talking them down if someone would seriously get hurt or egging them on if it would be funny and harmless. Mom's sister is kind of like Mom's "martial artist who likes books" side but moreso and with a different fashion sense.

Nod.

I don't think grandmother is going to have Opinions about Idaia marrying an Elf but she's probably going to tease her for marrying a prince. Even if it did happen thirty thousand years ago.

He can be all decidedly not princely at her, if that'll help.

I'm sure she'll like him. It won't be mean-spirited teasing.

Should they get the news before the public does?

Yeah, they were on the list Mom gave Macalaure.

Then it'll be taken care of already, we contacted all those people this morning.

Oh good. Grandmother'll probably show up soon, but soon might be measured in weeks, she's on tour right now.

It's probably a good sign if this doesn't seem urgent enough to cancel it.

Well, that and the fact that she got good enough at dancing that she has a recurring problem with being compared to Elves by being very, very dedicated to it.

That also. How old is she?

Two hundred and thirty-six.