Nod. "I'll ask Maitimo about whether various other people match - or maybe Bar'd know and if it's not a tendency we can spread that around, if it is - I think I'll ask Miranda what she wants. It could hurt her, but things are going to be changing very fast."

"Yeah, she'll know more about what she'll be navigating than I would."

"Yeah, I caught that from the romance novels."

"Oh, did the top ten list include a heartwarming coming out story or something?"

"It was a secondary plot, actually, and clearly very self-congratulatory about the fact it was present, so you could tell it was a recent thing...people are so delightful, I really did enjoy the books."

"Yeah, it was new enough around then that I was mildly nervous about telling my dad. Not my mom, she was obviously going to be fine. He turned out to be fine too."

"...I think under non-Milliways circumstances my mother would have said 'I love you and you're going to have to make some hard choices about who you want to be' and my father would have said 'I always thought you were too good for politics, now you'll have to do something worthwhile with your life' and it would have been - much better than it could have been but not helpful. For Muggles it's a religion thing?"

"By and large, yes, at least the way the political coalitions lined up. That and a generic disgust reaction I guess, I think religion wasn't too deeply into it before it was meaningfully controversial?"

Nod. "Limbo must be a culturally fascinating place. - are Miranda's parents alternate universe versions of yours?"

"- yes."

...nod.

"Different grandparents though."

"We're the same up through my grandparents but different great-grandparents. That might be because you kind of need my grandfather's situation to produce my father. Does being a different race affect your personality at all, the way being a different species seems to, or is it pretty much superficial -"

"It's hard to sort out '1802', 'black', and 'British'. And 'female'. And 'witch'. But given that all those things are in play they added up to surprisingly little once we started talking."

"I'm surprised I didn't think of it. I did notice how many quirks you had in common - are you less clumsy because there's a 2179 fix for it, or is it just practice -"

"It's actually the wings and tail. Probably practice too, but mostly the wings and tail."

"The wings and tail are really really cute."

"Made 'em myself. Albeit after picking 'em out of a catalog."

"It's more how you move them. I really like seeing you happy."

Wag.

Kiss.

Kiss! "Uh, keep me up to date on display of affection protocols if you need to break it gently to somebody before they notice."

"I should have that conversation with Miranda."

Nod. Unwingwrap.

And a while later, with a conversational privacy spell, "hey, Miranda?"