Computers!!! Not freaking out very much at all as she continues to not think about horrible things!

When she gets hungry she thinks about being hand-fed, is that horrible?

No! Cute and not- horrible and totally doable, even, he asks someone over osanwë to bring them food.

Palace servants! She's going to be a princess and have servants!

She's so happy! It's so adorable! He hand-feeds her and it is not horrible!

She maybe nibbles on his fingers a little bit.

That isn't horrible either! Nothing is horrible except for the thing where it would ruin her day to be able to refuse him but he is pretty sure he has a workaround for that!

And she is not thinking anything that seems to invalidate his workaround! She is thinking about how handsome he is and how tasty the food is and how good it is to have her Catherine back and about how lovely the singing was and about how pretty the palace is.

He writes his alts that everything is all right but, uh, what a weird preference.

In Ambaróna he reads the message and starts giggling.

"What?"

"Oh, so, we're getting everybody resurrected in time for the wedding, and there's this world where there's this thing - uh, literally everybody is kinky and they built the whole society around it, if your world has that concept -"

"...how do you build a society around people being kinky? Do you have to wear a badge saying you're into feet?"

"I think you put your role on your driver's license next to gender and there are hairstyles and restaurants are set up in the expectation a couple will have one person sitting at the table and the other person kneeling at their feet and there's great controversy over same-role marriage? It's weird."

"Oh, that kind of kinky."

"And my poor alt was very worried that he and local Rebecca would not be compatible - he couldn't, like, torture her, even if she was into that - but they're all right except for the weird thing you all have is more pronounced."

"...we all have a weird thing?"

"You all have a weird thing! It's that - I understand being delighted to hook up and therefore not urgently needing to know what would happen if you didn't want to, but - most people I know would eventually want to know the answer to that, because they wouldn't like or respect someone if his answer was 'well, what are you going to do about it' -"

"...it might've occurred to me to wonder but, like, if one of the outcomes of asking a question is 'now I'm having way less fun' and the other is 'I have some information I did not even need' why go there?"

Nod. "The notes from your alts said that I was much likelier to - mess up at making you feel wanted - than do something you didn't want and didn't know it was safe to refuse - because I'd notice if you weren't happy and because you, uh, would be happy. So I didn't worry. But apparently my alt with the kink-world you explained to her that where he's from even after marriage she can turn him down and she was terribly disappointed because that's not hot at all."

"...well, it's not! I mean, I don't find it anti-hot, personally, but there is nothing actively hot about being allowed to shove your spouse off you, so if one expects more than no hotness in that vicinity of one's life..."

Snort. "I suppose. He found a way to cheat, so they're all right."

"Cheat?"

"He can read minds. I can't, you shall have to use your words or at least make faces, but he can, and she doesn't mind, and he can obviously decline when he pleases and obviously prefers to whenever she would refuse it if that were allowed. Without the mindreading it'd be so so hard to be sure enough but with it I suppose they'll be fine. Maybe he'll get a helpful marriage blessing - they get them at random instead of selecting the ones they want like civilized people -"

"Oh that's cute," says Peka, of the mindreading. "Maybe a little much for day one? I'm getting the impression that I am maybe less the thing we are than all the rest of me."