"Okay. Then, uh. Sure. Go ahead."

"Thank you. I will. Probably not until everyone's got a place to sleep and everything, though."

"Yeah. That makes sense. ...possibly someone should talk to Elizabeth or the Quendi about arranging people places to sleep."

"Probably. - I can do it if you want but I don't really feel like it's my place speaking for your people -"

"I'll... talk to Mathrael, maybe. Seems kind of like a Mathrael problem."

"She seems really competent."

"I think so! She was actually kind of unpopular before but that was mostly because, uh, if people get seventeen hours of work a day they kind of grumble at everyone who might possibly have been capable of preventing this. But it wasn't her fault, I don't think. There's only so much the crew leaders can do if the Alteri are set on something."

"Hopefully she can do better for free people."

"I guess we'll see."

She goes off to find Mathrael and then hopefully Mathrael can talk to other people.

And everyone else can head on back, once Elizabeth has a moment, their lifespans much extended and their fertility correspondingly fucked around with. 

"I think I do want to have the kids grow up together? So we shouldn't just be like elves now and wait until one is all grown before starting on the next."

"Yeah, I agree. Siblings are good. I guess it'd be fine to have, like, multiple cohorts of siblings, if we decided in a thousand years that we really wanted to be parents again, or something?"

"Yeah, that'd be all right."

"We also have the option to wait however long we want before we start having kids, I guess? I am kind of unsure whether we should take it. - hypothetically. Assuming, uh, other prerequisites for children."

"I guess there'll be - a lot to keep us busy? I don't know, it'd make me sad to wait too long. I guess a couple years would be reasonable."

"I'm not even sure I'd actually want to wait, just - feels like the sort of thing one should consider the potential benefits of, I guess."

"Yeah. Opens up a lot of new options, having all this - stuff. 

I guess I feel like I know how to mostly succeed at a traditional marriage with children where I work and you look after 'em and the weirder it gets the more I'm like - not that it definitely wouldn't work? But I don't feel as sure it definitely would and that's scary."

"I think that's - maybe adjacent to some of why I want to wait longer to marry you, I guess? We're - almost inevitably going to have kind of weird lives, at this point, and - wanna be sure that we know each other well enough that we're pretty confident that we can trust each other to make good decisions even if we end up in some kind of really weird situation that people haven't had to make decisions about before. 

"But - that makes sense."

"Like adventuring, kind of. You might do an escort through a mountain pass with a goblin problem with lots of people because it's not that complicated, but if you have no idea what you're facing you want people you've known your whole adult life who never fuck up."

"Yeah. Like that."

He glances around to see if anyone's looking then takes her hand and squeezes it.

Aww! Handsqueeze.

She shuttles the Valar places and goes back to her demiplane and makes a stack of wands of Sending, so they can hopefully continue telling her when they need to be shuttled places even when she isn't on the same plane as them. She pulls Imrainai back to her demiplane whenever she needs to take a break or sleep. She hits some more hospitals with Connor. She periodically checks her spellbook.

She can level half her first level clerics to second level. 

She can teleport any number of people anywhere, and can designate a message for them to receive before they are teleported and let them opt in or out.

Oh good. She takes the spells. Her spellbook is really very good sometimes.

When it's been a couple days for her, she asks Matt whether someone should be contacting Rana.

"Yeah. Want to drop me near the fairy circle? Not too near, I want to take a long time to walk to it so he has a while to think about whether to be there."