"I guess we're likelier to eventually be stretched for Valar. Didn't early stages of evolved planets have a plant-and-bugs ecology?"

"Sure, but I was envisioning more of a resident-optimized set of plants than that, edible stuff..."

"I'm not even sure the stuff edible to Elves is edible to humans - I guess we could start there, look what in the Valian ecology is human-compatible -"

"I filled up the cargo holds of a bunch of lightleapers with food and it all turned out Elf-friendly."

"Yes but - we seem like a strict improvement on humans, I'm not sure the fact Elves can eat human food implies the reverse, especially when the Valar got their existing plants by just twiddling until things were Elf-edible."

"My Mars plans are designed for human residents. I'd be removing things that depended on imported hummingbirds, not adding random extras."

"That should work, then." Tap tap tap - "there, dozens of planets for you to choose from."

Wag wag. "Thanks."

"My pleasure."

And Cam goes off to look at planets.

And the Maitimos consult on Kib-socialization (people should not be alone! but conversations with someone who thinks you are Melkor are unpleasant and hard to sustain for very long) and decide to go bother Kib in pairs, so conversation can happen in front of him without his needing to participate. 

He will go bother Kib!

He thinks it is entertaining that these are the kind of priorities versions of him have when nothing has ever gone wrong in their lives. He does not say this. He joins his alt for Kib-bothering.

Kib does pause his movie when they show up.

He blinks at the screen. "How -"

" - I don't actually know, not in any detail. Uh, you can send pictures by pretending they are made of numbers, and if you get good at that you can fit a lot of pictures into a very small space."

"It's sort of like shine grids."

"We don't have those either. It's clever, though."

"I don't get a lot out of fictional movies, I can usually tell the actors are acting."

"That explains why it was always Findekáno who took me to plays."

"That and less to lose."

" - well, we didn't have that problem and I still mostly go to plays to see people I know, not for the story, so -"

"Your Valar didn't start out better - she'd already gotten to that?"

"I mean, I wouldn't have openly dated someone back when I came of age, but even by 1370 it was safe enough, yeah -"