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I predict this will be a self-indulgent shippy meditation on power and responsibility but it's honestly hard to predict these threads
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"Yeah, I kind of expect that if I you're a casualty of the mind control then I will be, too. I think the current plan is to only give votes to people who were outside the demiplane on whether the new one gets to stay, later. Which isn't foolproof, of course, but - it's something."

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"I feel really bad for her. Not in a way where I want to abandon everything to go cuddle her, but - I hope we get her someone."

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"Yeah. Same. I feel like - if I had mind control powers, or Elizabeth's powers, and absolutely no one to lean on - and maybe we're wrong, maybe her sister isn't dead, but - it sounds like it'd be very hard."

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He looks appraisingly at Starfarer.

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" - I'm happy to give the kid a hug but I'm not looking to get married? I'm not sure what you guys are thinking of here."

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"I'm just making observations, I'm not particularly suggesting courses of action."

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"Why aren't you looking to get married?"

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"Uh... I am not sure she's fifty, I just met her, I don't think she particularly wants anything to do with my life and I super don't want to dedicate the next couple centuries of my life to building her people a stable government, that doesn't sound like my core area of expertise at all, she knows the rest of my family already and I don't think actually prefers me to them in any meaningful sense, Eru pays attention to her and that sounds terrible, and I'm just generally not really looking for marriage at this stage of my life."

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"Reasonable. Although waiting until fifty to get married would be kind of silly, humans are mature around twenty and fifty is about when women stop being able to bear children."

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" - wow. That sounds rough."

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"Never particularly thought of it as that bad? But I guess it'd be neat to be an elf and get centuries to do things in."

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"Around what age do your people typically get married?"

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"...once you're an adult and have met the right person? You're an adult at fifty though most people won't consider you fully grown until you're a hundred, and then engagements last one year so I guess technically if you're doing everything right you can get married at any age past fifty-one. But most people are older than that."

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"How old are you?"

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"Two hundred sixty three. Years, that is, Endorë's years are a lot shorter and I guess I'm a lot of those."

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"Humans mostly don't live to see a hundred."

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"Yeah, I heard. The Valar'll fix that for you if you want."

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"Nah, it'd piss off Pharasma. Besides, I'm - supposed to be trying to believe that there are afterlives that're worth going to, now."

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"Couldn't tell you for sure. Haven't been to any."

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"There are some that're fine. The problem is not everyone gets them."

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"Uh, Pharasma sorts people by what they were like in life, and most people are neutral and most of the neutral afterlives kind of suck, and some people are evil and all of the evil afterlives really suck."

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"Your world's paused right now?"

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"Yeah."

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