"...it's entirely fine to just tell mes to stop making their loved ones miserable, you know, and then we'll do that - after Boots is done she won't internally have panic attacks if you touch her but unless you have told her to stop making you miserable she is unlikely to express enthusiasm about getting married for an Elf while."

"Told her not to lie to me, instead."

"Once she wakes up the two should be compatible."

"That'll be nice."

"But I don't know enough to guess how she'd feel about getting married."

"I'd probably be up for it if it'd help even if it weren't for the 'get unmarried' step, no qualms if that step is in there, would need to think about it longer without."

"You can just time it for right before batched free-will dispensing. It doesn't do anything on the human side when it's Elf-human."

"Yeah, I know, there was a communication mishap years back that got some poor Elf married to this dom who was inconveniently already married with a kid back home, 's one of the reasons there were people working on soul divorce."

"Unless there's a reason not to we can resurrect them this afternoon."

Nod. "Not Liz. Liz needs to - wait."

"That's the one who's in love with Sauron? We could keep her out of your dimensional neighborhood, but - yeah."

"The one who's in love with Maira, and killed Mandos and Finwë and another Elf who got in the way of their departure from Valinor."

"Mandos I can sort of forgive. But - yes, that one can wait."

"It's not that I object to Mandos being dead all that much, it's that this is how Melkor got out."

"I am starting to suspect that Eru wants Melkors loose and we should keep a closer eye on Telperion."

"If it turns out Eclipse is conveniently adjacent to it or something I am happy to obliterate Telperion's Melkor - seems like you missed me when you swept for Bells because I wasn't home at the time."

"We should have thought of that failure mode, given the tendency of Bells to end up sucked into Ardas. We can add a check for Bell parents from everywhere."

"That'll definitely work with no false negatives!"

"I can't think of any check at all that would've found Stork while you were in Shine, dearest, without wishing on some better tracking."

"Oh well. Parentless Bells will just have to be statistically underrepresented. It's a good thing Andi wanted to find alts of herself, though."

"And they get along, too, or at least they do if it's not highly path-dependent, they did in my precognition but I didn't stick around in reality."

"Matirin thinks they will all the time."

"I admit to being weirded out that Maitimë comes in shapeshifting blue centaur alien. By comparison I'm not particularly weirded out that she comes in boy, although the skew is a little overwhelming."

"Andalites feel like a pretty natural thing for mes to be, really - girl only seems weird until I remind myself that they have Asgardian-style gender roles -"

"What would happen to a you stuck with the less convenient gender role?" wonders Kib.