"That is very adorable. You are very adorable."

"Bella's really good at fixing worlds."

"It's a thing. That was what did it?"

"Did what?"

"Adorabled you."

"She taught me to read. She wished for a chance to fix everything. She did fix everything. She was really patient when I was confused and she never made me feel stupid or told me to stay out of her way or stay safe. She saved two worlds and trusted my judgment on things like whether the Noldor were okay once they explained themselves and wanted to rule a planet and so she went and did that, without asking anyone for permission..."

"Awwwwww."

Gem hugs Joy.

"And she likes how I sing and thinks I'm pretty."

"And how you decided to help a worldful of people you didn't know who were very unfamiliar and weird to you when you could've just gone home and been safe, and you thought of useful things I didn't several times, and you do things like hug trees and refer to 'scaring a plane' and it's so cute!"

"The plane was acting pretty scared!"

"That's why it's cute, if you said the plane was excited about its upcoming birthday or something that would make no sense."

"Anyway, we got really lucky finding each other."

"Luckiest coincidence ever - if you had landed anywhere else - I guess now we know about adjacency you probably would have just gotten reset back into Doriath, but...."

Yeah. Maybe I landed the only place that worked out logically.

"Oh, yeah, I guess we actually wouldn't know if you landed in twenty different places and reset every time, if where the snake sends you is independent."

"That's a weird thought. But yeah."

"Such a weird thought."

"I found you eventually. That's what matters."

"And now we don't have to go around again. I was so sick of February."

"I bet!"

"I was a few loops away from taking a vacation in the southern hemisphere!"

"And instead you've visited a bunch of other worlds!"

"In some of which it is not winter!"

"And to think I'd never left Doriath."