"The fault of whoever sent the Tapai pictures, and Maitimo's tearing his hair out trying to put together who it was and what they wanted. It's fine, if I want to go back in ten Years I doubt anyone'll even remember and I really don't want to go back, I already got all the nice things and took them home with me."

"...okay."

"They're gonna change, you know. Not - today, not quickly enough, but - Katin's going to take fifteen of our Years to grow up and by then they won't even remember having reds and without reds the rest of it will fade and if we take her back there someday it'll be - obscure historical information -"

"You think so?"

"Yeah. The thing where you die is terrible but in this particular respect it's convenient. Things can change - fast - here things are very slow to change -"

"It's so nice here, it doesn't need much -"

"I think maybe it needs to handle brushes with less-nice people and places a bit more gracefully. And faster resurrection -

- I want to tell you an important secret -"

"Ooh, a secret?"

Giggle. Snuggle. "You've seen video of the Silmarils, right -"

"Yeah! They're neat. And they don't have a ton of competition in my video watching time, I think my planet is better at, uh, TV with plot."

"Another thing Valinor could improve! - the Silmarils can be used to capture our backups. It's a secret because lots of people would want them, and the Valar'd disapprove, and in the wrong hands it would be very terrible. But - we didn't want to leave it up to Mandos, not forever. Someday we're going to leave and found our own civilization and do our own resurrections - and then we could stop worrying about peoples' romantic proclivities, if it turns out that's not really worth worrying about -"

"It's not for us, I dunno if there's something different about Elves. How would you make the bodies -?"

"We're not there with bioengineering yet but we're not far off, and a Maia could do it even now."

"Neat!"

"Maybe Mandos will react gracefully to the revelation once we have it, and if he doesn't, off we go, there are a lot of stars."

"Maybe there are more aliens!"

"I bet there are more aliens! Maybe the next batch of aliens won't murder any babies and we'll show up and be like 'we will bribe you to stop murdering babies!' and they'll be so confused."

"They might be offended."

"We would probably be a bit offended if approached like that. We can have real first-contact procedures next time, instead of just excitedly racing off to land near the prettiest alien building."

"- of course that's how you picked."

"It'd be a good rule if you were visiting us!"

"I don't think it'd distinguish much!"

"Tirion is much prettier than Valimar or Alqualondë. Anyone can see it except the Vanyar and the Teleri and they are obviously biased."

Giggle.

"I, on the other hand, am a paragon of neutrality." Kisses. "I am objectively the best singer in the world and my family is objectively the best one and the Silmarils objectively the best art and you are objectively the most desirable and fascinating woman in the world."