"He doesn't like Findekáno in particular?"

"He does not like Findekáno's father."

"Findekáno doesn't like him either." He shrugs. "Someday when I have nothing more interesting to do maybe I'll try to get them to get along."

"Feuding in-laws does not sound like tons of fun."

"They don't feud, they just go out of their way never to be in the same room. There's lots to keep them busy here anyway."

"I guess that's the sort of thing you could reasonably put off till later," agrees Bella.

"And we were expecting much worse reactions."

"Well," she says, "congratulations, anyway."

"Thank you. And congratulations on escaping your worlds' mess."

"I really didn't have anything to do with that unless you count 'letting Fëanáro rescue me'."

"I think you bring out the best in him," he says.

"That's the idea. He was the first person I met, when I landed in Arda, he was so tiny and brilliant -"

He smiles faintly. "He is brilliant. And very vulnerable in a lot of ways and doing right by him can be very hard."

"Bit of a balancing act," she agrees.

"This situation is good for him. Lots of things need inventing and everyone owes their lives to his brilliance and knows it."

"Mine has been having a lot of fun with the science fantasy world we went to. It's very... big."

A fervent nod.

"It sounds like here is also big."

"Some people need a galaxy to not be dangerously constrained."

"Or just unhappily constrained."

"He eventually reacted very badly to realizing he was a prisoner."

"...yeah that happened to mine sooner. First he stowed away to follow me to Tol Eressëa where I was going to develop an anti-time-slide spell, and his parents dragged him back; and then he teleported to the Outer Lands and everyone freaked out and I had to summon him back and he was so mad... and then the Valar booted me and he gave up on Valinor altogether."

"When our Valar made it clear that we would not be granted the means to leave, we had an army behind us and there was a way out and people tried to stop us from taking it."

"Explains some things."