"There are things that explode that aren't intended for combat! Engineering involves a surprising amount of them, my sister's studying engineering."

"Oh - in your Valinor did they eventually invent glass and wheels as well as writing -"

"Yes. But they hadn't invented all the glassworking techniques I was aware of from Kilaiuossa, so--did you know spouses usually make each other rings--I showed you the one he made me, I made one out of glass with flameworking--" she shows her the memory.

"Aww! When I showed up it was so bright and I asked about tinted glasses and I was trundled off to Mahtan's and he invented glass from my descriptions with Aulë's help right then and a while later I woke up and realized I hadn't seen any wheels and I explained wheels."

"Oh, cool. Sunglasses weren't so much a thing in Kilaiuossa or I might've thought of it."

"They're handy. You just squinted a lot?"

"Yeah, and I was kind of distracted."

"Distracted?"

"By Tyelcormo. We didn't land in Tirion, we landed in the middle of nowhere, he found us pretty promptly."

"Awwwww."

"We got to comparing species differences and he said we could test strength with arm-wrestling except that he was exceptionally good at that and I said it was just as well since I'd fight dirty anyway and he said he had six brothers and doubted I could pull anything they hadn't and I said that if his experience with cheating came from brothers then of course I could and he asked if that was a challenge and I said yes and we started arm-wrestling and I kissed him."

"...Well, that's. Forward."

"Well, yeah, but he kissed back and I was pretty sure he would, so."

"The Elves pretty much thought I was jailbait. They were willing to treat me as an adult most ways but I didn't have any occasion to push it on whether I was old enough to kiss people."

"I'm pretty sure it helped that I didn't realize how much shorter Kilaiuossa's years were than Valinor's when I said I was fifty-three."

"Ah, yeah, that'd do it, I was just shy of nineteen in my world's years."

"Imliss figured out that Valinor's years were longer, did the math on how much, then promptly burned the paper and promised herself not to let it get out how young we were."

"That's one way of handling it. Fëanáro was annoyed that he was older than me and didn't get treated as an adult."

"Well, that was less of a problem for ours."

"Yeah. May have been exacerbated in mine compared to yours when he was a kid because I was around for comparison and I noticed the time slide."

"Yeah, that seems like it would do it."

"He was very convinced that the problem was that he was not tall enough and not that he did not come across as particularly mature. I gave him stilts. It was adorable."

"Awwwwww."

"I noticed the time slide when his birthday snuck up on me and I finally did the math and did not have a decade's worth of work under my belt. His birthday present was a bouncing spell and he used it constantly -" Tiny Fëanáro, bounding roof to roof through downtown Tirion - "Then we learned to fly -" Tiny Fëanáro swooping down to receive snacks in the square like a seagull.

"Awwww. Aw. Aw. Aw. That's cuter than the statues, I didn't know that was possible!"