" - why? Did he have several others the same time -"

"No, I think I was the only slave he was fucking. He just didn't want her around."

....Amentans are so confused. 

"They must just like babies a lot less," concludes Pink I.

"Amentans seem to like babies quite a lot."

"And humans'll - vary, a lot, about all kinds of things including family size, based off what's reasonable and normal and expected."

"The other pink me wants to move in with us maybe," says Pink I to her husband.

" - sure. All of you -" gesture at new arrivals - "or just her?"

"Just me," says Pink II, "they don't much mind."

"Don't mind what, the tech level?"

"Peka was appalled that we don't filter our water so there's nothing in it except water - do you do that?"

"I think they do these days, to prevent buildup in the pipes? We're not at home, though, we're stuck with the local tech here."

"If it's the water we could probably make room for you, they do magic water stuff."

"It's not the water. ...I mean that bothers me but that's not it."

"Mmm?" says local Macalaurë, who is still clinging to Beka.

"Oh, she's freaked out by the deal with the King's consort."

"That'd be something that doesn't match, since ours is straight."

"Yeah, I guess. That's not her problem though, it's something about the keeping him prisoner except she got over it about us, he just bothers her more maybe 'cause of the short hair."

Elves look horrified.

Huh.

"This is the me?"

"Yes."

"What happened?"

"There was a civil war. Melkor set it up - planted evidence, did illusions, figured out all our internal politics and said the wrong things to the wrong people and had my father persuaded that his half-brother was going to try to oust him and Nolofinwë persuaded that my father was going to murder him and then killed the King."

"Ouch." He puts an arm around Aitim. "Which we were on opposite sides of."