"I love you too."

"Here until you're ready to win."

"Mmhm. You know, focus is nearly as important as power. Want to see if I can maintain something simple while you do your best to distract me?"

"Yes."

She starts floating a handful of small random objects.

He cannot do the trick where he pulls on her hair at the same time but that's all right, shouldn't need it.

She drops all of the objects. Several times. That's fine, she'll just have to practice.

Since he also gets practice he thinks he might be able to maintain this edge, and says so, and kisses her, and expresses interest in doing this all night.

What an excellent idea.

They can get started on turning Odette into a god in the morning, it's not as if that'll make it take any longer.

Not for the purposes that matter, anyway.

In the morning he's still not especially motivated on that front.

Well, look at it this way: it's not like she's not doing magic. Just because all the lovely things she can think of to do with hair and so on aren't as big as some of the things she could be doing doesn't mean they don't help.

And the focus practice. They could do more focus practice.

Focus practice is so helpful.

Odette is the loveliest thing in the universe. Multiverse.

Hmm. Is he sure? He's pretty glorious too.

"Aren't I? You got the prettiest Elf. Well, Thingol's daughter's supposed to have the title, but I'm not convinced. And if she turns out to deserve it perhaps Illia can have her."

"I'm straight, she doesn't count for me," she agrees. "Be pretty awkward not being able to invite both sets of in-laws over at once, though."

"Maybe my family is unusually dysfunctional but that hardly seems like a problem."

"I dunno, back home there's stereotypes about not getting along with your own in-laws, let alone your in-laws' in-laws."

"My father calls his brothers 'the King's children by his second wife'."

"That part's kind of dysfunctional."

"Makes not getting on with the in-laws' in-laws seem pretty tame."

"The part that's actually likely to be awkward is that Illia picked up my habit of calling the Quenya ban linguistic blackmail."