"I mean, there is a biological difference here, I'd try to draw an analogy but then I too would be contemplating repellent topics."

"I remember. I just don't even find any analogous - oh, the future totally wouldn't have that anymore either, would it -"

"D'you have Polyjuice around, Timothy, now I'm curious."

"If we're out it turns out boomslangs aren't magic."

"It's still like a month and a half to brew."

"I could acquire more but that'd be an awful lot of juggling of doors in the pursuit of cultural exchange."

"I think we've had enough cultural exchange."

"Assuming you don't have to stand over it for the entire month and a half I suggest setting up somewhere, setting a timer that will send a message to your computer, and wandering off."

"There're parts that only work at the full moon, no idea how that'll play with Milliways."

"Marvelous, we can find that out at the same time."

"Might try on something that's less hassle first. But yeah, fair enough." He stands. "Uh, someone should super warn everybody that soul Elves have a different marriage thing going on, otherwise there is going to be a horrible misunderstanding sooner or later."

"I'll add it to the notes."

"What would be the actual fallout of the horrible misunderstanding - the chip blessings pick and mix but it sounds like the soul kind doesn't, what does it do -"

"You get three new - senses, capabilities? Suited to you and your partner, by far the most common one is a kind of emotional feedback thing. I don't know what would happen if one of our Elves tried marrying someone who wasn't our kind of Elf or Maia - it might be one-sided? It would surprise me if it didn't occur at all. I have no idea at all what happens if - Nelyafinwë, it's past your bedtime -"

Conversational privacy spell.

"You can forcibly marry someone."

"And my expectation that your Eru might retire drops..."

"It would be out of character."

"Your Valar could make our Valar more sensitive about handling it, though."

"Minimum."

"You could start by not saying they're married, because yikes."

"It's not - it's a natural category, not a social one. You can see it in peoples' eyes."

"Which seems intercompatible between Elf varieties, although presumably the more ostentatious augmented reality versions aren't. Might be too subtle for species with worse eyesight to learn to pick up on...?"

"It actually hadn't occurred to me humans can't see it, and I hadn't met married humans -"