Me too. You wouldn't think those would be outrageous criteria.

Well, if you'd asked me when I was eighteen if science was an outrageous criterion...

He shakes his head. I wouldn't have expected no Valar to be a sticking point.

Maybe Valar cause science, or something.

I hope there are other things that cause science, then.

I hope so too.

If not maybe we can live in Endorë and quietly invent things.

Still an improvement.

Yeah. It'd be okay. Not good enough.

Well, eventually we could go live on a different sphere without even one Vala on it, once we had enough magic worked out..

Yeah. You're still unaging, right?

I think so but it's still technically possible I'm just one of those people who ages really well.

Can your magic fix that, if so?

Not in Materia.

Well. That can't stop us now.

Nod.

I'm so sorry. 

What for -?

I should have warned you to leave for Endorë or something -

There wasn't warning.

If we'd been more paranoid maybe there would have been.

Maybe. I don't blame you.

I know. But still. It happened, and there might have been something I could have done, and I'm sorry.

Thank you.

Getting anywhere on better parameters?