"...Okay, well, I guessed that part."

"Hey, you never know, maybe we lost and this is the afterlife."

She giggles and attempts to snuggle closer but is thwarted by the extant thoroughness of the hug. "Well, I did say guessed, not knew."

"Humans awakened, turned out to be pretty great. We got more extradimensional help. I think I might be a magnet for it or something. The locals were mostly still alive and kind of jerks but Lúthien's cool - her you must have heard about in school -"

"Well, not all the way that far back, but yeah."

"She and Huan get along, I used to - sort of visit. Sometimes. Go within osanwë range and let Huan run off."

"I can't possibly think ill of someone Huan likes."

"My father said he'd try resurrection after it ended. He did try. He tried really hard."

"I believe you. I wish it had worked."

I love you so much. My fault or not I hate that you got hurt like this.

Yeah. It's okay. We have the rest of forever.

You suffering is not okay. But yeah.

Oh, god, Idaia, I missed you.

I know you did. You know people call you 'The Grieving Prince,' right? she asks wryly.

No, I didn't, that'd require paying attention to people.

They do! I am kind of not looking forward to the media fallout when it becomes reasonably public knowledge that your wife is back from the dead and me.

We could just go to a pretty island somewhere for a hundred years and ignore them all.

This is actually really tempting except for parts like "I don't want to go a hundred years without frequent contact with my sister and she wouldn't want to come live on a tropical island with us" and "the war is long since over and the internal family drama seems to have resolved in one way or another and what if we want to have kids in less than a hundred years, they should be able to socialize with people their own age."

Well. We can just not give a fuck about them.

Okay.

I love you so much.

Never should have let it happen. Never going to let anything hurt you again.

...To what extent, because I'm pretty sure childbirth still hurts...

...I'm not ready to think about that yet. By the time I am we'll have a lot more tech, probably. The world's growing fast.

Yeah, it is.

Love you.