"Unless we do anything interesting."

"What sort of interesting things were you doing?"

"They objected particularly to the necklaces that fixed the time-slide effect."

"...huh. Ours don't mind if we adjust that with blessings..."

"They said everyone'd feel pressured to do it."

"Plenty of people like it slow! And people fiddle with it when they go on vacation or if they want to match to coordinate on something."

"What are blessings?"

"They're - things - that go on our chips, so I suppose you wouldn't have them -"

Headshakes.

"There are a lot of them for improved memory or autonomic control or things like that, and marriage blessings with improved osanwë add-ons of various sorts."

"And we would know if we had - chips? - "

"Probably? I suppose you might have incompatible ones and somehow not know about them..."

"How would we check?"

"I suppose we could put your heads under a metal detector."

Confusion!

"Oooooohhh how do those work -"

"Magnets. I was doing other things when they were invented and didn't look into it in detail."

"What are magnets - do you have books on all this -"

"They might use a different alphabet than the one you invented, Fëanáro -"

"Oh - of course you'd invent the alphabet if there weren't one by the time you needed it -"

"Bella had books with her and they were amazing."

"Mirelótë invented the alphabet for us."

"I invented an alphabet, dear, you invented the alphabet."

Blink.

"Mirelóte invented writing but people were too silly to appreciate her properly so I refined the letters to be more of an art form and then they were delighted to adopt it."