"I like that you married her, it's - emblematic of nonsexual personal regard."

" - oh, yeah, mes think the world of yous. It's primarily that, really, it's just that it'll shade into want wherever applicable. - maybe not for Sunlight because he sucks, I don't know how that interacts."

"I wasn't sure either - Kib tempted me into going and being a carrot because maybe closure, I got a little, assuming I can rely on any of it then there is still that. I think Midnight doesn't like us? Except Tireh? Who he has only probably realized is a Bell?"

"And Loki's didn't like her during the time period when they understood her to be planning on denying them leverage to go save the multiverse. We don't take well to being contained. The problem is that you kind of have to couple that with absolute trustworthiness with power or else it's just obnoxious."

"So obnoxious."

"And the people who tell me when I'm being obnoxious are Iobel and Finankar, so they're all stuck."

"Reportedly a Findekáno moved from Millennia to Shadow."

"Oh, yeah. And it has helped significantly. But we don't have a spare one for Sunlight and I sure hope we don't get one that way."

"Yeah. Well, there's Tireh."

"For as long as she stays adorably nonchalant about it, yeah."

"I think she's playing it up a little but yeah."

"Long as he buys it." Sigh. "Everyone's been told to tell new worlds that the person they're getting sent to is a Maitimo, just to be safe in future."

"Won't help if there are bad ones who aren't named that."

"Yeah, but that's harder to fix. I'm more worried that people'll hear that and panic and flee to regroup but, still, we can't be springing it on people."

"Not my favorite surprise. Was he upset -"

"- I mean, it's upsetting when alts of people you care about are hurt. By your evil alt."

"Fair enough."

"The Space ones are kind of unpopular even locally, they're probably pretty used to it."

"Do Space ones in fact have strong attachments to Bells -"

"Not especially? The war was quick and not-evil uses don't try to seduce their valuable strategic assets unless that's necessary for their cooperation."

"...is that exception common?"

"It has never come up and that's a good thing, we wouldn't have much fun. Requiring seducing to help with the war is sorta incompatible with being the kind of person we'd seduce on the merits."

Nod.

Meanwhile, Boots goes and introduces herself to the new Findekáno. "You need a nickname."

"Yes, yes, I know. They mostly, uh, have been picking ones that pair well with their Maitimos."