"Yeah..."

What happens if she asks point blank "do you have a crush on me" -

...ears back to normal - "um."

"I told Alex that I'd maybe get over it if there were comparably delightful humans somewhere and he says 'then I think you're out of luck because she's the best one' and that's been borne out so far which is really inconvenient -"

...Of fucking course Alex noticed, thanks Alex. "And getting over it's preferable because -"

"...compatibility?"

"...which you know is unworkable because -" (She's totally spacing out in realtime at this point -)

(Realtime Maitimë is delighted by her eidetic memory and getting used to what it does to her head, and Isabella could easily be having a conversation or distracted by a bit of magic progress-)

"Uh? In my world I was just - not planning to date, it wasn't compatible with getting to be Queen, but in yours I'd definitely put my hair up and I - don't think that flexes, or it might but it's not just a question of liking someone enough -"

- okay this is worth discussing for real it's kind of a jerk move to extract all this in precog -

- but it's disingenuous to open with the question the answer to which she now knows -

She has in fact been zoned out for a bit, Maitimë is blinking at her -

"- um-"

She notices her ears and tells them to stop that. "Thank you."

"You're welcome -"

...

Bounce precog conversation.

Uh. 

"...so do you want to pick up where you decided to stop-"

"Or not. Probably shouldn't even have - sorry - up to you."

"I don't mind - I can see why - especially given the way my world is about - anyway. I told Alex there wasn't any point in bringing it up because it didn't work, and he said 'so are you going to mope forever' and I was like '...yes?' ...that's a pretty common Elf thing, I think it has more negative connotations with humans..."

"...Florida Elf mopes forever," mutters Isabella under her breath. "Seriously?"

"I mean we could also - stop interacting - and then I'd probably get over it? But that'd be such an enormous waste -"

"I don't want to stop interacting that sounds awful."

"I know!!! So. We'll put Secretly Florida together and I will scream internally a lot and everything'll be fine, really, I'm not unhappy -"

"- okay do you actually prefer that to spending an hour reading Wikipedia on dom/dom relationships and talking about our feelings just in case or no."

"Do you - want to do that -"

"I'm not facing moping forever if we don't but if you'd be so inclined - not bothering seems like maybe an enormous waste?"

"I would be happy to look things up and figure out if there are things that might work."

"Okay." Isabella's got her computer and Tirion has wifi. "You still mostly read illegible to me I had no idea I wasn't even thinking about it -"

"That was - I didn't want to start communicating definitely-can't-happen -"

"- even though you were planning to mope forever?"