We have brains. Brains are, hmm, the way that you get memories and senses out of the universe, they aren't the thing that is you.

"I think we do that with our brains too? Hey Bella how do we know that brains do personality and stuff -" Pause. "Bella says that if we have brain damage it changes personality and things."

- huh. I don't think that really happens to us unless it's also a soul damaging kind of thing like Utumno. ...do you have marriage?

"...yeah?"

- how do you conceptualize the thing that happens between married people, is it their brains developing a permanent magic link? If one of them died would it end?

"...we don't have permanent magical links?"

What do you mean when you say you have marriage?

"People go to a church or the courthouse or whatever and somebody's like 'do you take this person to be your lawfully wedded spouse' except with more gender in it usually and they're like 'yeah' and then they can file joint tax returns?"

Okay. That sounds like a different thing. Maybe you do not have souls. - I don't think much of that design choice at all.

"Really don't think it's a design choice."

Shrug. 

"Bella wants to know how hard it would be to check if she has the thing with the thoughts."

I mean, we can tell her? I don't know how you'd check without someone who has osanwë.

"Yeah she can come here she wants to know if it'd take very long or be unclear or anything."

I guess it's possible she'd have it when I checked but then forget later, that happens to people who are new at it a lot.

"But if she come here you can tell her if it's good then."

Yes.

"Bella they say yes."

And there appears her sister. They're not identical; Bella is shorter and their faces don't match.

Hi!

"Hi. Is my privacy screen thing working?"

- yes. I can tell you're there but you are not making anything public right now.

"- okay, great. Welcome to Earth! Can you understand me - I'm trying to put that 'public', what I'm saying -"

- yes, I got that. Thank you! I am glad we ran into somebody; there are some confusing Earth things and it'd have been worrying trying to figure them out alone.

"Like, uh, the sun?"