That's annoying.

It is! Edie at least has the consolation of proof in the form of an alt that she can do very well indeed in this magic system without any form of cheating at all.

He doubts Cam will have much ego riding on it but he'll probably be very motivated..

Yeah.

"...Have the Ozymandias engineers been let know human immortality is apparently a solved problem?"

"Yep, they're straight on to daeva-inconveniencing and other Silmaril functions."

"And this way they don't need to risk missing any of the baby's childhood if the timefuckery isn't convenient enough."

"They are delighted."

"The. Baby?"

"No, the engineers."

"...No I mean what baby, no one had previously mentioned a baby."

"The other Tyelcormo and Idaia are expecting."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

We should probably talk about. This. In more detail than just how surprised we are or aren't. At some point.

Yeah, agreed. Sounds like we've got time.

I'd rather it be sooner than later but yeah.

Mmmm?

...I'd rather have things clarified? And I'm a human and you're an Elf and I don't wanna bet that if I say 'later' you won't interpret that as 'later on an Elf scale' and then we don't talk about it for years.

Okay but there are alternate dimensions and travel between stars and stuff - 

Yeah, sooner than later doesn't have to mean, like, now or anything.

Okay.

The baby's pretty exciting, though!

Honestly I'm a tny bit overwhelmed, in my head it's still wartime and - well. We get to help with a baby without having to worry about that ourselves. That's good.

Yeah, I'm probably having an easier time adjusting because I haven't been dealing with the war as long.

I'm glad.