"Mmmmmmmmloricaaaahhh."

"You're cute," she accuses.

Cling. Gasp. Does Lorica need a shirt. 

She might need a shirt (she is the one who is avoiding being carried away, here) but she definitely doesn't need a ponytail.

Oooh. He runs his hands through her hair and shivers delightedly. 

...this is kind of hilarious. She kisses him. She tosses her hair.

Kiss! Snuggle! Hair!!

"Maybe," he says a while later, "the reason it works out okay for Elves to marry without knowing first, and not humans, isn't that Elves're more virtuous it's that as long as you braid each others' hair every morning you can't go too far wrong."

"I am having a hard time imagining successfully braiding your hair with you twitching like that all the time and trying to get carried away, but possibly this is just because I lack Elvish dexterity and speed, or something."

"Maybe you spend a year honeymooning far away where it won't matter that you've never successfully braided your spouse's hair without getting distracted and then after that if you get the distracted out of the way first it is achievable."

"A yearlong honeymoon, goodness."

"You're supposed to have a yearlong engagement so after that you've earned a yearlong honeymoon. Though I think it's mostly expected that you'll be mostly busy being married the first five years or so? I knew being married was considered very distracting but, uh, not why." Happy shiver.

"Humans just have 'being newlyweds' which lasts less than a year and is not at all an excuse to be away from everything or more than a little silly."

"Cause you have so little time. We have forever so why not spend some of it - not doing nothing, but certainly only doing things that make you happy in their own right -"

"You don't think it'd get a little samey? I guess maybe people also bring along - well, not books, not in Valinor - board games or something? Or maybe if books don't exist it's honestly really appealing to do nothing but have sex for five years..."

"It does seem like there are lots of things you'd want to be learning and making progress on! I was reserving judgment until I had the information that other people were using to make their prioritization decisions but now that I have experienced the internet I definitely wouldn't want a year away from it."

"Yeah that sucked and it was only six months."

"Well, I mean, you travel. Climb all the mountains, swim on all the beaches, ride dinosaurs, go discover a new tree frog species...."

"You know how before I triggered I could barely walk down a hallway without tripping? I still kind of don't think of climbing mountains as a realistic activity. Flying, sure, climbing, no. You have dinosaurs?"

"We have dinosaurs. I am sure flying a mountain fulfills the honeymoon spirit."

"Flying a mountain makes it sound like I'm picking it up. Or possibly leashing it on a string like a kite. Do you also have trilobites?"

"In theory every species that existed on our planet at any stage in its history is still around in Valinor - that's why discovering a new species on your honeymoon is popular - but I don't know if it's all the same ones as Earth has or had."

"I don't know if you should export dinosaurs so we can do Jurassic Park right or if you should definitely not do that so biotinkers don't do Jurassic Park wrong."

"Do they need dinosaurs to do that?"

"Probably not, I'm sure somebody somewhere has done terrible things with literal fossils and the power of imagination."

"Wish I was a Tinker. Anyway there are dinosaurs and some are friendly enough to ride and people do that on honeymoon. Or they visit the magical domains of various Valar, or they build themselves a home together on some hot springs no one else has discovered."