"I think the consensus is that this worked out better than Tyelcormo fetching Idaia when she was eight or something."

"Well, there is that."

"Makes my life much easier!"

"I'm actually failing to model what this would have looked like."

"Maybe we should ask Tyelcormo."

"Could be fun."

"Or very disconcerting."

"It's not like it's going to happen. I suppose I don't have enough information to see how it would be disconcerting."

"Oh, this is just quite a public headache as is and I can vividly imagine the headlines if the girls'd been younger."

"...Mm, I see your point. And at that age I wouldn't put it past Idaia to physically attack someone who made an accusation like that of someone who mattered to her so much..."

"Which would be charming but not make my life any easier."

"Yes.

I still regret the effects I think believing most of their lives to be fictional had on them."

Nod.

(Imliss really can't debate this assessment. She can hug someone, though.)

She can get so many hugs.

Yeah it's gonna take Anna some time to reconcile "literally the King and his brothers" with "Imliss's family." But seeing how much they care about her helps.

So he approaches the twins' father. "It's lovely to meet you. Thank you for coming out here on such short notice."

"...Thank you. It's an honor to meet you. It--seemed the thing to do."

"I suppose of all the things that could drag one across the country it's one of the pleasanter ones, but still - it's a disruption, and I appreciate your flexibility with it."

"I was going to be disrupted anyway. This is less annoying than dealing with the media fallout on our own."

"Your daughter's been conniving to avert it with a deluge of exciting announcements. We might start a Moon colony."

"Hey, I only approved the plan, it wasn't my idea!"

"I apologize for inappropriately crediting you with a Moon colony!"

She makes a face best described as, "oh, right, no one can win an argument with Maitimo."

He makes a face back best described as 'that's right, they don't, beloved sister.'