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After Cam's magic but still basically human boyfriend has fallen asleep and Cam finds he is not tired enough to do the same, Cam goes downstairs.
Mingling arrives
too-early-and-too-late
"But I am super unimpressed with them and don't necessarily want to let them in to do it, frankly."
fate-in-store
"- this is about -" he broadcasts the thought Cam had earlier, the planet, crumbling -
too-early-and-too-late
"- how about we tell everybody outside about the private thoughts thing and then you can go out and sing with them?"
too-early-and-too-late
He goes to the door to outside, opens it - "uh, guys? Someone just came through the door - he's a small version of your Maitimo - but he's got mindreading, you have to do this mental separation thing for privacy - Maitimo, can you read my thoughts?"
There are Elf volunteers and then fewer Elf volunteers when it is clarified that this Maitimo is, like, seven and that the concern is not thoughts-they-might-want-to-keep-private-from-their-crown-prince but thoughts-they-might-want-to-keep-private-from-a-toddler.
too-early-and-too-late
"Either way, we're in no hurry, right, because we are Elves and ten years from now is as good as right this minute."