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"Bones and skin and blood vessels, nothing too weird."

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"Do you have to overhaul your entire circulatory system to actually fly with them -"

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"No, they patched in all right."

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"Guess what," Fëanáre says to her gleefully. "Computers!!!" And then a very fast-paced explanation of what those are.

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They can each have one if they'd like after the brain surgery is explained. Tyelcormë's can have her alphabet as default.

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" - that'd be great. We don't need to have specific things to take care of them?"

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"I can probably figure out how to convert your household electricity into something that can charge them."

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"Oooooh," Fëanáre and Curufinwë say simultaneously. Huan snorts.

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"And you may look over my shoulder while I do it. Timothy, are you bored?"

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"Not in the slightest."

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"Good." And he measures the household current and comes up with a transformer and splices it in, narrating as he goes.

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"Time travellers, is that so. Fëanáre -"

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"Maitimë believed it and it fits the languages. Someone had eight children at once, did you know that?"

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He kisses her. "Absolutely not."

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"Technically I just asked if you knew that -"

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"Mmmmhmm." One of the children is trying to climb up his leg; he scoops her. The other one wants to touch Cam's wiring project; he scoops her too.

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"It's insulated."

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"She bites."

"Do not!" objects the girl.

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"I can insulate it more."

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"If nothing else it would enhance my peace of mind."

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Cam insulates it more.

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Then the small children can run around freely! They do so with such enthusiasm that it seems like there are more than two of them. 

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Aww.

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It is a very enthusiastic talkative family that sits down to question the time travellers over dinner. For some reason no one except Maitimë objects to knowing who they'll marry.

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