Kisses! "You're so nice. And yes the best singer ever anywhere." Kisses!

Gosh if he had anything else to say he has entirely forgotten it! 

He remembers a while later when he is snuggling a very tired Peka. "'s an important political - social - sociopolitical - festival event up in Valimar, next month, lasts most of the month - I often skip them but I can't with my parents and Maitimo out of town - one can bring a partner but it'll be taken as a sign you're very serious -"

"Oh - I can stay home it's okay -"

"You are very much invited to come."

"Really?"

Snuggle. "Yes, of course - I just didn't want you to be startled if people are very 'but who will do the music at the wedding' -"

"- um, what do I tell them if they say that -"

"That we don't think there's anyone in Valinor up to the challenge and are waiting until we find some place that is to Valinor as Valinor is to the terrible planet? That we will sing it ourselves and make my father invent sound equipment adequate for that as a present? They'd be being rude - among the Noldor 'serious' doesn't necessarily mean 'looking for venues' but among the Vanyar it pretty much does -"

"- um, are - we actually -"

"We aren't anything you don't want to be but I'm not leaving you home from anything that - that we assign a meaning like that - I don't want to rush you -"

"I didn't know you wanted - I was sort of assuming you'd -"

"I want you to be happy. Forever. If that - means a girl, or means five people, or something - or if you just don't know what it means yet because you were on a terrible planet until recently - I don't want you compromising on anything -"

"- I was assuming eventually it would become obvious one way or another that it was about time I moved out and then I'd do that and not be new and interesting any more and you'd get bored and forget about me."

He makes a face.

"No?"

"I love you. I am not going to get bored of you, and I am not going to forget you, and if you chose me and stayed and got old and died there wouldn't be anyone else. - mind, I'd sooner you didn't do that, pining for all eternity is very poetically satisfying but the world not having you in it would be intolerable -"

"You have such a beautiful smile," he whispers, and kisses her. "'m sorry - should have said -"

Kiss! "It's okay - I was having so much fun, I just didn't think I could keep it -"

Kiss!! "I, ah, would've been carefuller about Katin, if I wasn't sure I was serious - not fair to her to have people coming and out of her life - you have so many appealing traits beyond novelty, and I don't think we'll run out of new things to do -"

"She's too little to remember people, do Elves remember people that young -" Snuggle.

"Not consciously but I think they might form expectations that young? I don't think you were being irresponsible or anything, I just wish I'd said something sooner so you wouldn't have felt like you needed to - get the most out of being temporarily adored -"

She kisses him. "I love you."

Happy squeak.

"- you squeaked."