"- they can in my world - but that's chip blessings so here may differ."

" - here it's automatic. So it makes sense people'd want to get it changed, if they ever want to marry..."

"I can add a footnote." She adds a footnote about the world difference.

This reassures everyone. "Can you still see who's married?" someone asks her. "We can see you are -"

"That's optional but most people install it."

"Huh. And the marriage senses..."

"Pick and mix."

"That's more practical but not as romantic."

"If you say so. I'm very practically inclined so I don't miss it."

" - if you can't get married by accident I think some people might be tempted to - misbehave, too..." someone says uncertainly. "Like humans do."

"Yes."

Horrified stares. 

" - it wouldn't be as bad as humans because they wouldn't have children," someone else offers after a minute.

"- it is definitely fucked up that humans can have children by accident."

Nod.

Ambela aims a displeased look ceilingward.

"It's awful. They have children they can't afford to feed - they're still having children now in cities that'll fall to Sauron before the year is out -"

Unhappy silence.

Yep. She writes on.

Humans are vaguely curious about her, introduce themselves. Their kingdom is called Gondor, and it's south of here. The one that might fall to Sauron in months.

She is pleased to meet them and willing to answer their curiosities.

The Valar and Eru actually exist? It's fashionable to think Elves made them up, because the world doesn't look like it has benevolent deities in it. The destruction of Númenor, is that true too?

The Valar and Eru exist where she is from; the Valar were poorly informed and Eru nonbenevolent. Númenor she doesn't know because her world never had one.

Her world doesn't have any humans? Her poor world.

It does not. She hopes one day humans can travel there and enrich it by their presence.