"We have no idea but at least this time I was ready for it, if no two Cams look alike I am going to catch them."

"We're going to need a collective noun, Miranda and I have the same last names but Elves don't even do last names..."

"My mothername is Ambela - I use them interchangeably, whichever is fine -"

"Oh, there you go then, 'bel', we're Bells, I guess."

"We're 'timos'? Doesn't really have the same ring to it. Hi, new Bell. What are you like as an Elf, did the taking forever to grow up drive you nuts?"

"I was born on Endorë, it was faster there, I was already twelve when we got around to leaving. Also I was very adorable."

"I do not doubt it - how old are you, like five thousand -"

"- in short years? Not quite but coming up."

"Thank you for making your Valar not suck."

"You're welcome. I didn't realize it'd matter on quite this scale... I hope they're contagious. They were a little internally..."

"Oh?"

"Well, Oromë was the only one around on the trip to Valinor so I started talking to him, but he was in touch with the others so I had slightly less groundwork with the other thirteen when we landed, and if I wound up talking more to, say, Lórien than the others some decade they'd still be caught up on the invention of formal logic or whatever I was trying."

"You spent five thousand years trying to make your gods not terrible?"

"I did other things too!"

"I mean, it's not a bad thing, it obviously worked and Cam was going to throw himself at some stupid ones, just. That's a lot of patience."

"The Valar are the most concentrated source of ability-to-do-things around and it mattered a lot if they used that intelligently! We did have a negative example to hand!"

"And now you have hundreds of millions of them."

"She also invented writing!"

"But not tengwar, nobody liked my alphabet, Rúmil made letters pretty enough to popularize." Smooch.

"They were very silly to be missing out on it."

" - so in Happy Arda Maitimo has kids."

"No way, really? With who?"

"Didn't ask."

"Do they normally not - oh but they're such good parents -"

"Maitimo flirts with everyone he meets but has never asked anyone out, far as I know."