"Thanks for that, by the way."

"It was very satisfying."

"I can imagine. I'm glad we didn't have to worry about it, when we came back."

"Me too. We could've gotten you anyway, but -"

"Yeah.

I love you."

"I love you. I missed you."

"I'm sorry I didn't make any of half a dozen life choices that would have involved not dying."

"I'm similarly sorry I didn't make the choices that would've prevented it."

"It feels really weird to have you apologize to me when I just woke up like the intervening time was nothing and you had to grieve for thirty thousand years."

"I'm in the habit of being able to assume things are completely under my control, and if they went badly it's my fault."

"That doesn't sound very healthy."

"Seems healthy enough to me."

She's not really convinced but decides that taking it up with Findekano later is probably the more fruitful avenue. "Congratulations on getting married, by the way."

"Thank you."

"It explains so much."

"Oh?"

"...Less specific discrete things, more just 'oh, this makes so much sense in retrospect.'"

"Fair enough. Do you have a boyfriend or girlfriend who will be alarmed to be suddenly royalty?"

"No, I'd've brought 'em up sooner if I did."

"I appreciate the lack of complications but people tell me it's now much harder to find one."

"A significant other? That makes sense, I guess, but it's not like I'm in a huge hurry or anything. I'm definitely not ace and I'm pretty sure I'm not aro but I've got all of forever to find someone, and someone I decided to date while convinced that most of my life was an elaborate fantasy isn't necessarily someone I'd want to be with forever anyway."

"I am very glad you are unconvinced - deconvinced? - that most of your life was an elaborate fantasy."

"I became convinced it wasn't when Idaia accidentally did magic, it wasn't hard."

"I'm surprised it took that long to happen."