There's space in between - the version of you too idealistic to do your job and the version of you who I cannot love or respect. I don't know if it's space a you could inhabit but it's there.

He closes the door behind him. Well. If I see a way to get there I'll take it, how's that? Undress.

If I saw a way to get you there I would drag you kicking and screaming. But right now I can't. Can you give me permission?

I fetched you, didn't I? I haven't prohibited you from talking to people, I haven't had you swear your wants away -

He slips his clothes off.

Say 'yes', Maitimo. Say 'yes, if you see a way to do that, you may -'

Obviously if you see a way to do that you may. 

And he kisses him. 

Mirelótë can be found in the main bar later, talking to Miranda.

"Hi! I ran into Karen earlier and she said the Sanity me has children?"

"Yes - Cam and Timothy didn't know that when they forked him and they had to fork him from before, when he hadn't had them yet, because our chips have been made unforkable without authorization since then - Finyarë Nóquellë and Finyarima Aratarya."

"Exactly what I was about to ask. Uh, how?"

"They have a Maia friend, Ardilorë -" bounce real name - "who carried the babies for them."

"People were okay with that?"

"Yes. - Chip Elf marriage is different from soul Elf marriage, we do it on purpose with blessings and a party, it's never accidental and inherently gender-neutral -"

"I'd figured it had to be. Our form of marriage is - inconsistent in some respects but not that one."

"Anyway, yes, people were fine with it - a few people were a little slow to adjust when the rules changed, but not enough to make an issue of it."

Nod. "Thank you very much. How are they - doing - or maybe just what are they doing - with the fork -"

"Currently the fork is here and not, to outside observation, engaging with the - misfortune. I gave him my notes on the years he missed, his fork was forwarding him some things..."

"I suppose in a sense maybe it's better for the kids not to introduce someone they don't know..."

"If it were me - I don't have children, but if I did, I'd probably want to do my best to seamlessly integrate us all, if I woke up tomorrow and found that I'd somehow been forked from now and it was a hundred years later and we had - but I'm not a you."

"Clever Valar can't merge people?"

"No. It might be doable - maybe Findekáno's working on it, he's good at chip programming."

"I would like to meet some more of him."

"The wizard one is around; he's called Fredrick. The Singularity one and his Maitimo broke up after the business with the ships at Alqualondë, though - which might have happened in any case but can't have been improved by the Doom - how is yours doing?"

"Reading absolutely everything. He won't just take my word for it that you are probably not being mind controlled to believe your Valar are great - I didn't get him until I was sure -"