They hang out. Beka can play translator for the other two. They talk about things which are mostly not the King's consort.

When things are all done he will come find them and explain how one might go about developing a magic song that could charge a pocket everything. It would take a very, very long time - probably decades - but.

"I don't think decades old electronics usually work. I'm not sure exactly why though."

"Decay? It affects all kinds of things you wouldn't expect it to - Valinor didn't have it and when we got here we were scrambling -"

"They're not organic. It might just be wear and tear but for some reason I feel like if you found old everythings from ten years ago that were still in their boxes they wouldn't work either, but I might just be wrong."

"Huh. Well, then that's no good."

"It'd be really disappointing to work that long on a charging song and then have it not work anyway!"

"Wouldn't it just. Oh well." Songs that definitely do work!

Magic songs are the best.

They really, really are!

Peka can eventually be distracted from the topic of Macalaurë's awkwardly imprisoned in-law and stop always taking Katins-watching duty.

Macalaurë is glad of this. It's weird when people are upset about the thing. He takes Peka and company to valleys to frolic in and sings lots of songs and has lots of sex.

It is rather transgressively thrilling to frolic in valleys really.

I don't have - that in particular - but doing things that growing up the world would have crushed you for doing is - a good feeling.

What stuff is like that for you?

Saying insulting things about the gods. Having sex even though I'm not married. 

There are some life philosophies on Amenta which call for monogamy in the sense of being really really sure that you want to stick with a person forever before you have sex with them or make certain other overtures but as far as Peka knows (which isn't very far) they don't care beyond that whether the marriage part comes before or after the sex part. It's based on vague theological mumbling about animals which pairbond for life or something.

Elves get married when we have sex with other Elves. Eru wants us to wait until we meet the right person and then be engaged for a year and then marry them and be only theirs forever. But, you know, Eru can go die in a fire.

Yeah that sounds kinda dumb.

Also doesn't work for gay people. So they're supposed to let the gods fix them.

She could see a lot of people who sprang sideways wanting to get straightened out if they weren't already in love with somebody, so they could have kids without elaborate rigmarole, but when she had a girlfriend they loved each other a whole lot. (The problem was disparate sex drives.)

I suppose people usually turned themselves in before getting attached to anyone. Maitimo didn't, but probably most people did.

Ugh she doesn't want to think about that she can't do anything about it so it's like reading sad blog posts about asshole blues in Yvalta or whatever.

The being gay is not the problem.

Well yeah of course not but the person he is gay at kinda is.