It's at least worth a try.

I had Aydanci sitting with me, she didn't mind.

Want to stay?

If it'd help.

I should ask Boots if the soul bond emotional thing is going to interfere.

I asked her if she'd worked with married Elves before and she has and apparently it's not a problem.

That's good. 

Okay.

Does it feel like anything -

The arts doesn't. She did have to watch me have a little freakout cascade to know what was going on when it happened so she could do anything about it but that was just like it normally is.

Thank you for trying it first.

You're welcome.

Love you.

If the Enemy had subtle arts -

This has been on my mind, yeah. Seems, I don't know, thematically unlikely that he'd have powers which in fact required consent to operate.

If it just requires consent and not a cooperative mental state that would be otherwise hard to induce -

Yeah, just consent and just for ethical reasons, no 'relax and let me in' or anything, I got the impression that she'd be fucking terrifying if she weren't, you know, a decent person.

Are all Materian subtle artists decent people, because -

Like many things about Materia, the answer is "no, of course not, things are terrible there" but she's been careful about it as an evacuation screening thing.

Poor Ferardrin. Poor my father.

Yeah.

Materia's - I mean, even before Materia it had occurred to me that there'd still be things in the multiverse which could hurt me, but Materia made it obvious.

It's fucking cheating, is what it is.

It's just so stupid, to think we could figure everything out and get ourselves safe and then it'll just go 'that's a bit much, I'll break it' - was Cam terrified, I'd have been terrified -

He held it together, he wasn't there long enough to start wondering if people could still conjure his messages or anything.

And the fucking Valar sent Bella back -

Still don't know if they were able to grant her efficacious protection, whether Materia counts science-world gods as being allowed to do things like that, but yeah.

Squeeze. Well, we're lucky to have her, something of a necessary skillset. I'll tell her to set up an appointment.