Nod.

"Maybe it's better if he dies."

"You think so?"

"I don't know. But if he dies then we can bring him back and then he'll have to be less mad at us, and if he lives he's gonna be sad forever and ever."

"Will he have to be less mad at us, if we bring him back?"

"Well, he'd be yours, if you made him."

"I guess so? But lots of people are mad at the people who made them. And - if he wanted me to let him go I'd wanna let him go."

"I think it'd - it'd be something you did that wasn't just throw problems he couldn't solve at him."

"That makes sense."

Snuggle.

"You gonna be sad about it, if I make fairies and then they belong to me for a while? I guess if I have kids this'll probably happen anyway. Probably. I dunno if anyone's ever had quarter-fairy kids."

" - no? Why would that make me sad? I guess I'll be sad if you like them better but that doesn't mean you shouldn't make them if you want to."

"Well, you kept being like 'you're probably going to have lots of slaves,' and it sounded like it might make you sad if I had more, and I don't really plan on - expecting anybody else to be the thing that you are, ever, but I'm maybe kind of unclear on which things technically make you a slave and which things would make you sad."

"Someone is technically a slave if they're a fairy substantially in your debt with no court. It will not make me sad if you have lots of those. It will not make me sad if they're important to you and you care about them, or if you have sex with them. It will make me sad if you snuggle them and mindmeld them and get them presents for Christmas. But I think it's okay for you to do things that make me sad."

"Good to know. ...Christmas presents are not normally that high on the intimacy list but it's good to know that they're important to you and stuff. Maybe we can talk about that more when it's closer to Christmas."

"Christmas presents are very important."

Snuggle. He's very adorable.

"We should bring your dog here. If we're gonna be living here. Especially if we're going to be letting time pass. ...also we should find a way to make your dog immortal."

"Yes. We should definitely do that."

"Maybe we can ask the Valar. Maybe if I ask the Valar to make enough people immortal I'll eventually be able to do it myself."

"That'd be neat."

"Yeah.

"I was thinking earlier that lots of the me's - well, maybe just Korva, now, but still - were planning on marrying people from different cultures, with different ideas of what marriage is, and maybe it would be good to put together a list of questions or something so nobody gets married and then is super surprised that sexual exclusivity isn't important to their future spouse but Christmas presents are. Or something even more important. And I guess now I'm thinking maybe I should write some questions up and also go through them with you, just so - I don't really expect we'd find out anything that'd make us not want to get married, but - might be good for avoiding surprises and stuff. Maybe. If you wanted to."

"Sure. If it'll be helpful for you."

"I'm not super worried but I'd feel kind of dumb if I wrote it all up and didn't actually ask you the questions and then it turned out there was important stuff that we weren't metaphorically on the same page about."

Nodnodnod.

Snuggle. She summons a notebook and a pen.

"Okay. What should people be metaphorically on the same page about. Uh. Kids, obviously. Um. Are we gonna have kids?"

"...well, do you want to?"