"I can imagine. But still, like, it's vaguely weird to me he didn't kill him on purpose. - I guess Timothy's all friendly with the guy who raped him but the circumstances were pretty different -"

"...I don't think I heard about that."

" - it was in the notes on people on his planet but it wasn't marked for just our template, just no one else reads those. Timothy wanted to learn to throw off the Imperius Curse, which in fact turned out to be a useful thing to be able to do. Someone was offering lessons of the form 'I put you under the Imperius Curse on weekends until you can throw it off, no complaining what happens while you haven't picked it up yet'.  - he was fifteen."

"God."

"Timothy sent him a local-cultural-holiday card, last local-cultural-holiday, in case the guy might be worried what with Timothy having manifested spectacular otherworldly powers. But it really does seem very different to me."

"Well. We're averse to killing people and there was probably some - residual frustrated fondness that was more palatably channeled into the aversion to killing people than into anything else."

" - uh huh." Sigh. "I'd really hoped he was a one-off."

"Alas."

"Least we improved at handling him. Go have a party in Aurum, you'll have fun."

"I'll ask Golden to have the sister of hers who's into parties set it up. He really might not mind if you all came, we can ask."

"I suppose if he also wouldn't mind being asked."

"That will definitely be fine."

"Oh good."

Cor doesn't especially mind but he wants to invite his Findekáno, does his Findekáno mind?

"I might be vaguely nervous around them but it seems silly to have them just make themselves invisible when we're around and, well, several of me married them, I'd feel silly telling my alts to leave their husbands at home -"

"The idea seems to be that we should not be made to feel vaguely nervous, but... that seems overblown, a little."

"Even if they're just like him they're very committed to never seeming it. So."

"Through Angband and all."

"And even while thinking nothing's real." He shakes his head. "Let's not exclude the people who love parties from the peal parties."

Cor writes to the party planners to this effect. Maitimos get invited.

Some of them even attend. 

"Hi."

"Hi! I'm Mitros. I really wonder why we only come in one ethnicity when Bells come in at least four."

"I guess we're more interesting or something."

He glances fondly at Iobel, who is over talking to some of the Rebeccas. "I guess!"