"You keep coming back to the elephants. I promise elephants don't devote this much thought to you."

"I find it deeply reassuring that when people are safe and their lives are good they choose to care about more things. The elephants make me very happy."

"That's cute."

Kiss. "So - what do you need -"

"The obvious, pretty much. Put back Elves, figure out something about the Maiar, maybe take out Melkor oath notwithstanding if that's doable without activating the self-defense clause."

Nod. "If the Killing Curse works on him I have a feeling I could muster the relevant sentiment."

Nod.

Squeeze. 

Wings: useful for putting around wizards from 1802.

Wizards from 1802 have yet to do anything irregular or obviously 1802! Maybe they had romance novels to read.

"So is my guess about why you wanted the romance novels about right..."

"Wanted an idea of how to avoid hilarious misunderstandings, yes. I know not to take them seriously but they're usually - suggestive - of the expectations of the societies that produce them."

"I should probably also provide you with a sex ed book before it becomes relevant because the alternative is probably a really weird conversation. Or the top ten curated erotica list, but that'd be even more misleading than the romances."

"Sex ed? How 2179. I would be delighted to have a book."

"This actually occurred to me a while ago so I narrowed it down but the one I could find that assumed the least background from a highly sexually open culture is actually aimed at twelve year olds, would you rather have that one or do some guesswork in the context gaps."

"I would rather bask in delight that this was a question you gave a great deal of consideration over the last few weeks. Uh, maybe not something aimed at twelve-year-olds -

- uh, if it'd be culturally considered misleading not to mention, or something, I was - when I was learning to throw off the Imperius -"

"...that was not an obligatory disclosure but I will hug you if you want."

"You're already hugging me," he points out, nonplussed.

"Yes, I will also hug you if you want when you have not just said that sort of thing. I will in general hug you if you want, deal with it."

"I expect that to be totally straightforward to deal with, somehow?" Kiss. 

Kiss!

"I expect my family to take it okay but in case I am wrong should I avoid telling them in a way that says anything about you?"

"I'm pretty sure I have already casually indicated that I'm bisexual in front of your dad and Minor, although if it's not an accessible concept maybe they brushed it off and your dad may not have been listening. - But have a care for Miranda if the implications could hurt her, she doesn't even know yet."

" - oh, yeah, good point - does everyone match so far -"

"I haven't been quizzing them all. Miranda and I might easily not, we're much less closely paired than your family is with your alts. Like, if I weren't bi I wouldn't even know whether to expect her to match in label or in target."