"Those we can't detect."

"How would it be an afterlife if someone just... moves?"

"Dwarves in soul Ardas and humans in Revelation appear in a different place when they die, naked and in good health and as young adults if they died as adults - still children if they died as children - and we can detect those kind of arrangements."

"Huh."

"We're checking other kinds of people who die in Revelation, in case we should just terraform some planets there and then take immigrants."

"Everything here is very... big."

"- yeah, I guess our plans and ambitions are on kind of a different scale than what you're used to. Is it annoying when I tell you about policy details you're probably going to forget -"

"It's not annoying. A little confusing."

"I don't expect you to keep track of it all, I just - I would be doing you an injustice by behaving as if it is my job to go fix the multiverse and your job to stay in my rooms and keep me cuddled -"

"The thing they say when they don't want to say 'redmages are the ones you have sex with' is 'confidante', but that's usually a little less political."

"I'd rather being a redmage have as much or as little to do with your role in things as you please."

"Well, if I'm good at anything useful that I didn't become magically good at when I was five I don't know about it yet."

"You do not have to manifest it right away." It is not that he objects to keeping Cir in his room all the time if only it were ethical. 

- Cir laughs a little.

He pets him. "Hmm?"

"It's just, it's funny how - you would be having a lot more fun with me a lot faster if you weren't so good, but you are, and I love you."

" - I'm really not unusually good - or, well, I aspire to be, but by the standards of my society 'do not have sex with children or with people who believe their continued wellbeing depends on you wanting them for sex' is not unusually good it's on par with 'don't murder people'."

"I don't believe that my continued wellbeing etcetera," Cir points out. "It would be pretty hard to believe that. I could tell if you were lying about it."

"- yeah, I know. But it's sort of built into the whole system, isn't it?"

"Yeah, which I got out of, because of you."

Snuggle. "It really actually wouldn't be okay if I did whatever I wanted, even without that." 

"I didn't say it would. It just made me laugh the exact - way you aren't."

"I am glad it doesn't - alarm you - this is so disconcerting is this is what I am like to everyone all the time -"

Kiss. "Maybe a little."

"I should tone it down." He has not initiated any kisses with his redmage but he will very much kiss him back.