"You're welcome."

"Anything I can help you with while I'm here?"

"Not that I can think of, but thank you for offering."

"You are very welcome." Pop.

He relates this conversation to his son near-verbatim.

...huh.

Hmm?

I honestly can't tell what he thinks of me at this point.

He doesn't like you but you can do resurrection and he doesn't otherwise have a way to do that and he's mildly curious about the soul-touching thing.

...it's weird that there's a you who doesn't like me. I mean. I get why. But it's weird.

I know. I'm sorry. I bet we can figure out how to fix it.

I'm not even really upset about it for its own sake, Da called that one right - what upsets me is that I could make him so happy, and - he doesn't want me to - and I don't want to disregard that just because I think I know better, but, well, we definitely know better...

I don't know that he's unhappy. He seems - tired, more than unhappy.

I could make him happier.

Yes you could.

He grins.

Well. Think it's time for you to go talk to him yet?

Probably.

Snuggle.

Let me know how it goes, I guess...

His self-duplication power has come in by now. It fits in his marriage-expanded soul with plenty of room to spare.

And he goes off to meet his alt. Hello, he says once he's secured a meeting. 

Hello.

I ended up deciding to have him because he'd spent weeks wandering around my castle bubbling with how much he was in love with me, and Findekáno'd been out for a year and a half, and I thought, well, why not, he's easy to please and so obedient and he adores me - and he was, he was a delight, uncomplicated - his world doesn't have any taboos on it - and new to everything and convinced he was the luckiest boy in the world - and then he found out about Findekáno and his soul magic collapsed on him - it runs off how virtuous he thinks he's being. He was completely helpless. He's willing to give you one at that point, if you won't give him a try unless he's helpless. 

I'm not actually on the market.

Doesn't need to be serious. Truth be told I think you'll get attached but it's not - I'm not offering you a replacement for your loved ones, I'm just saying you'll really enjoy him.

If you want to give me a powerless version of your boyfriend and the artifact to torture him with then I'll listen to him think for a while and decide if I think he's worth fucking. I'm not promising anything other than that.

All he wants is for you to give him a chance to make you happy.