They are so responsible.

So responsible!

"So...the most obvious thing, to me, that I mentioned earlier but we didn't really get into, is the lifestyle thing? You travel a lot and I don't want to make Year-long separations from my sister a habit."

"She wanna come along?"

"I could probably talk her into it sometimes but she has, like, her apprenticeship and friends and stuff."

"I'll probably want to move around less once we've crossed the sea but settling down in Tirion sounds -"

"Yeah, that's fair. I dunno, I don't have to come with you every time."

"Yeah, that works. Or we could be a day's ride from Tirion and not tell anyone where so they can't come dragging us in."

"Do people try that much?"

"Not really. It's just kind of - there? If that makes any sense -"

"Like how there's almost no chance anyone's going to drag anyone I know off to Lorien, let alone because I let something slip, but I'm still terrified of the possibility."

"Yeah. Though I don't think I think about that in particular as much as you do."

"Yeah. I mean, I don't actively think about it that much, but yeah."

"So somewhere travel distance from Tirion'd be fine, just - not in the city."

"That works." Snuggle. "About the distance of your parents' house, or farther?"

"Definitely farther."

"Makes sense."

"Is she going to be apprenticing with my family a while longer? Because we can at least do same side of the city."

"Yeah, I think so. Your dad is brilliant."

"So is your sister, I'm sure."

"She is! I imagine she wouldn't fit in nearly so well otherwise."

"I'm pretty dumb and I get along fine with him."

...She's going to refrain from arguing with him about that for the moment. "You're you, and Marille's Marille, and a significant chunk of how she gets along with them involves her being smart--I'm not saying being brilliant is the only way to get along with your family but I think Marille wouldn't fit in as well if she weren't brilliant. Although I could be mistaken, it probably depends on the circumstances, it might be that she would get along with them totally differently if she were interacting with them for non-apprenticeship reasons."

"Yeah, could be, she gets along with Nelyo fine and he's not - it's not that he's not smart, but -"

"You and he are both very different kinds of exceptional from your dad."

"That's a way to put it."