Probably not unless I try to lightning at anyone. "Electricity is lightning," she says, creating a pair of small metal discs attached to her hands with enough charge to make a flash of static electricity jump across it. "Except how it actually works is really complicated and you can make it go through metal wires and make stuff do stuff." She makes a flashlight and flicks it on.

"Darling?"

"Is the 'conjuring out of thin air' part not weird?"

"No, I can do that. Back up to the part where you called her darling."

"We're engaged, other set's married? Nelyo, dear, what did you tell her -"

"About the Melkors, as it happens."

"Oh."

"Doesn't mean you have to like your version or anything, Maitimo's romantic adventures are very unpredictable."

"I like him fine. He's the best friend I have, besides Illia. Don't tell any Nolofinweans I said so, they'll panic or something."

"Really?"

"It was like that for a while in my Arda as well."

"I guessed. Anyway, he's my friend and that matters to me a lot and is an end in and of itself and, yes, I have an increasingly difficult to ignore crush on him, but the friendship matters to me, it's not just--an intermediate step or consolation prize."

"...really don't think he'll be upset by that? If that helps?"

"By the fact that I have a crush on him?"

"I dunno, you sounded like you felt like you had to phrase really carefully to avoid a misunderstanding of some sort and you probably. Don't have to do that."

"I am perpetually annoyed by society's assumption that romantic relationships are inherently more meaningful than platonic ones."

"Fair. Also, like, he's a shiny tree Elf so they've got the batshit-crazy sex rules."

"Those don't automatically work with humans."

"Worked exactly as expected for Idaia's Tyelcormo."

"Andreth says Aegnor said that he was sure it would work if he said marriage vows and stuff but, um, it definitely doesn't work by default with humans."

"This sounds like a story."

"You'll probably find it a horrifying one and honestly it's probably worse from a perspective of 'it's far, far too late to do anything about it.' Which is apparently the case in Ozymandias."

"I really doubt it's more horrifying than everything else."

"Depressing but fair. So when I originally showed up in Arda, it was near Himring, and I ended up talking to Maedhros, and when I told him how old I was he asked if I needed chaperones, and I said I had better things to do with my time than pander to people who thought I might be having illicit sex. He was shocked and horrified that that was what chaperones were for and it came out that he didn't know humans didn't do the sex equals marriage thing with each other, let alone Elves. Fast forward a bit later and I've met and am talking to Celegorm, and the thing comes up, and Celegorm says that his oldest brother needs to get out more because it's blatantly obvious if you spend time around Men that they don't do the thing. And then he mentioned that some of his people had sex with humans in order to avoid the marriage thing and it worked. And then fast forward some more and I found out Caranthir was married to a Dwarf--"

"Wait, what?"