"According to Marille your father and Curufinwe manage it by being such overwhelming nerds that it kind of drowns everything else."

"Yeah, I buy that. But, like, Nelyo and Cáno? Everybody loves them."

"According to Marille Nelyafinwe manages it by princeing so excellently. No idea about Canafinwe."

"Princing so excellently no one falls in love with him? I am - disappointed in the population of Tirion again."

"You lost me. I thought we were talking about absence of awkwardness."

"That's, like, the main thing making it awkward. Usually."

"...Is people falling in love?"

"Wanting to get married, I didn't say anything about love."

"You said it about your brother. 'Princing so excellently no one falls in love with him.'"

"Okay, fair. Anyway. Stuff in that vein."

"Huh. Sounds annoying."

"Nothing annoys Nelyo but I don't know how he handles it."

"You could ask."

"That'd be weird."

"I could get Marille to ask him?"

"That'd still be weird."

"If you say so."

"He'd read too much into it."

"...He'd think she was hitting on him?"

"No, no, he'd notice that, he'd just try to figure out why I wanted to know."

"And curiosity isn't a good enough answer?"

"Dunno. Maybe."

"None of my business, I guess."

"I just don't want to get his hopes up that I'm going to be - better for public image."

"Ah."