"...uncomfortably close to it. You remember when Butterfly explained how her twin is 'hers' - Sibyl definitely has that concept and I am nearly positive Maitimë qualified and suspect she is sort of constantly inadvertently threatening not to, now, and - this is not so much parallel to you and me as it is to me and Aydanci, at that point -"

"...the relevant bit being -"

"He's mine. You're not. This is not an aspersion on your boyfriend quality or anything, it's a separate thing. I think your person-modeling falls down on the job when it comes to, well, post-Angband-yous and people who love them, but you can probably imagine very vividly what would happen if somebody took Aydanci and when I got him back he acted like a post-Angband you at me."

"...yeah. 

She's not going to marry someone who doesn't want her, even if believing this were real would solve a lot of problems."

"Unpack 'want her'. Want her enough to say so given an enthusiasm level of 'oh, it would be ridiculous to refuse you', clearly not, want her enough to be making heavy use of her lucid dreaming facsimile and wishing this were not what she had to work with, guarantee it."

"I don't think she knows that."

"...it's pretty heavily implied by the 'I could go the fuck to sleep' line. Unless she's been accounting for her time spent asleep to Dream and actually spends the entire time doodling or something."

"Running her empire and taking advantage of the indestructibility to not need to, I think. ...I'm not sure I understand the 'mine' thing well enough to give advice on not endangering it -"

"Does the extensional category 'Aydanci, Cricket, Edward, both Belltwins, historically Dream, maybe Scroll' help or do I need to figure out how to actually define it?"

"Not as a category that excludes, like, alts -"

"Alts are kind of a... degenerate case of it, most of the results without necessarily having or even being much improved by the personal relationship. Like, Cam is not more Loki's than I am, they're dating in parallel to not in support of this thing."

"So - the ability-to-assume-shared-goals-and-unconditional-support thing, but occurring specifically as a consequence of personal fondness?"

"Basically. ...Uh, it's possible that once Dream believes this is real things get worse suddenly because then whatever she does is definitely indicative of choosing to do that to the real actual Sibyl instead of an awkward superposition of possibilities."

"I think what she's doing and plans to continue doing is 'a support role in running the empire and whatever other ones turn up' -"

"I don't mean in terms of their day jobs. It might be fine."

"I think all they are doing is their day jobs, I think that's part of the problem."

"Yep."

"Anyway. Thank you. - how're not-alt things -"

"Not-alt things are good!" Politicking in the Pineapple Islands! Stork population finally up to the point where it is probably finding literally all the babies and they can start trusting their numbers on how many "all the babies" is! Aydanci being great!

Oh good! They should have a 'finding literally all the babies' festival, that seems like a milestone even by human standards for festival-worthiness which are admittedly a fair bit higher.  "We finally made diplomatic contact with the island nation of Doriath. I didn't expect to get anything valuable out of it - thus ignoring it for so long - but that's about half the Elven population out of Valinor, it was a little silly, so we sent a nice shiny motorboat over to say hello."

"Did the island say hello back to the shiny motorboat?"

"Believe it or not, Elu was delighted to meet us! He's pleased my grandfather's alive, can they have some motorboats they were developing their own but they aren't as fast, how're all the non-Doriath peoples of Beleriand - well, he didn't ask about the Dwarves, but -"

"Aww."

"And the Dwarves were thrilled to have contact with people who were not the Thindar, and have all left Menegroth now to go back to their original kingdoms. Should've grabbed them sooner."

"Whoops. Why didn't the evacuee Dwarves who weren't in Doriath when the continent fell ask after them?"