"You're welcome."

"Anything else?"

She shakes her head. She goes.

She asks Findekáno when it would be convenient to talk.

I'm not in the middle of anything time-sensitive. What about?

You and your Maitimo.

Are you downstairs?

No, but if you prefer I could meet you there.

Wherever's convenient.

My room? Rúmil's elsewhere at the moment.

Sure. 

And a short time later there's a knock on her door.

She lets him in. "Hello."

"Hi."

She bounces a summary of her conversation with Midnight.

Nod. "I'm sorry for lying to you."

"Under the circumstances I can hardly blame you."

"Still." He sits down. "What outcome are you trying to help him achieve?"

"I'd like him to be able to operate in better faith with the people we find ourselves among."

"That seems reasonable. I don't get the sense they'd take the news very well."

"They would not. It doesn't seem like it would really serve anyone's highest priorities for people to feel obliged to shun him out of concern for you, but they can not do that out of ignorance of the past without having to be so actively deceived regarding the present. And while I don't know how unpleasant a time of it you're currently having I suspect it could be better."

"I - yes, definitely, but - this has been going on for four hundred years, did he say that?"

"Not so exactly, but approximately, yes."

"And he's Maitimo, and he can read me very easily, so - if something is not helpful to feel, I mostly got out of the habit? I'm only angry at him abstractly, I don't usually get too upset, I was mostly prepared to consider it a victory if he just uses all this new power well and doesn't sanction this kind of thing generally. I'm worried if he didn't have a way to control me he wouldn't want me around at all - I don't like him, see, you know how they are about that..."

"And you prefer he want you around?"

"He's a better person and better at his job when I am."

"Be that as it may, good faith does imply some constraints on his private life even if they aren't as conventionally to your benefit as they might otherwise be."