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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
"- 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."
too-early-and-too-late
"Yeah, I was - you know what, he will cheer up a lot if you go introduce him to everybody, please just do that -"
too-early-and-too-late
"Oh, good, 'entirely possible' is what I strive for in my odds of surviving when I wake up every morning."
from_scratch
"It's also possible they would not choose to squish me, or that they would not be really petty about it if I happened to be hiding in Hell at the time, so many layers of entire possibility."
too-early-and-too-late
"It is possible they'd try parole, apparently. Doesn't - I'm not chancing it -"
from_scratch
"There are a million people who are permanently dead because I killed them and if the extra Valar demand me on a platter with an apple in my mouth but they can fix it you produce another fix or you stand back."
from_scratch
"I'm not saying you can't pull it off or that I wouldn't dearly prefer it. But if Tiny You can't get ahold of anyone to hold his door for him - we can't kidnap him to hold access to his world for however many more months, he's scared and little and - and we can't abandon his door without something better on tap either."
too-early-and-too-late
"If everyone tells him to stay he'll stay - my parents were not so negligent there'd be no one within Elven earshot -"