My mom - has this unhealthy habit of checking whether people actually care about her - and someone irrevocably saying "I choose you and I always will' - lets her stop doing that -

It - prevents choosing someone else, it doesn't seem like it actually prevents estrangement?

True, but there's no non-coercive way to do that.

As-is setup isn't totally noncoercive either.

Yeah. If someone can get a power for it it'll be a net good.

Wonder how long it'll take.

When they started you said probably a Year, so that's still a while.

That's likely the upper bound for at least some component of the power coming in, because that's how long it takes to get anywhere on the things where 'anywhere' takes longest. A component might not do it on its own but it'd be promising.

So if there's nothing by then, might be it can't be done.

Yeah.

Okay. 

Uh, we were in the middle of a conversation -

Yes we were. ...Does the theoretical possibility of human/Elf marriage have any bearing on it.

- it's probably still not possible for us - it happened in the normal way, even if one party wasn't human -

But it's not conceptually impossible, so if psions can do it at all -

Then I think everyone'll acknowledge that a marriage is a marriage, and assume that Eru approves them all -

It doesn't speak well of Eru's track record that everyone would think it was plausible that random psion-controlled soul bonds had her approval but yeah.

Everything's supposed to be Eru's plan.

People say that about deities commonly worshiped here and still manage to get upset about a lot of things on their behalves.

I really, really don't know what to make of Eru and don't want to encourage people to think too hard about it, under the circumstances -

Yeah.

Loitering near this portal is not my preferred conversation venue, does Florida Elf need further help, or...?

I'm talking with her. I'll go down in person later, but it can wait a bit - should wait a bit, probably -

Okay. You're multitasky enough to want to pick up while you're talking to her?

Yeah - she's okay, 'there's already a kid involved' is more than enough reason not to want to do anything -

Odds are not overwhelming the kid is biologically his if his sub is also a guy, does that matter?

Not really - I mean, it's rare here, but it wouldn't change how people feel about a family -