Well, it's not looking likely I'll get to see him to apologize, so -

I'm sorry. 

Not really the most important thing. - will he be okay -

He'll cope better than you would, actually. 

- well, that's something. I don't think I'm coping badly. 

When Maitimo thought he'd gotten me killed by not being good enough at what he does he promptly ran off to parley with Angband. It wasn't - guilt - but it was a deficit of good judgment I would have corrected.

You sound just like him.

The day we - there was a dance and I took a girl and she really liked me and I was so disconcerted by it and she wouldn't stop kissing me and so I Stunned her and calmed down and then tried to think what to do and Fredrick walked in and - corrected deficits of good judgment - and -

It took me two hundred years to bring Maitimo around.

Good god.

Quiet laughter. He was so scared -

I was scared! And it took me less than an hour - Quendi -

Hey, hey, that was Maitimo, no dodging that with the species difference. I think now he wishes we'd had longer. 

Don't you have forever? Possibly unless you die and offend the god of the dead?

Oh, this kind of arrangement offends the god of the dead. And survivors of Angband don't typically - I mean, he'd fake it if I wanted, but - 

- he'll get over it, though, right - I'm twitchy about a thing or two but it gets easier with time -

I am very sure he will. 

Then - 

- oh. In two hundred years?

It certainly won't be sooner.

I suppose then I really can't meaningfully ask you how long it'll take Fredrick to be all right -

Depends very much on what you mean by all right, anyway.

Do you think you can really love someone if it's all switched up -

Yes.

Doesn't feel much like a potion.

Hmmm?

- oh, that was my plan before I met him, we have love potions, I was going to marry a girl and be fine.