"Not so far but Mirandas all look different, maybe one's hiding. Timothy hasn't noticed any yet though. He took a while to cotton on to Miranda and Cam but now I bet he's being more attentive."

"Probably. It's sort of a cool thing to be able to notice. I do not think I know a you."

"That's okay. Hey Elf of Fredrick what's your name?"

"Findekáno. Am I the first Elf of Fredrick?"

"I think they all have you but nobody else went and got theirs."

"You probably don't exist yet in the world where I am a tiny child. My Sanity alt has no such excuse, but I'm not sure how to ask him."

"Would he be offended?"

"I'm not sure, there's kind of a lot to catch up on. He looked really shaken up about our civil war - his world is kind of aggressively all right, and not even by horribly coercive means, and they never bothered inventing law enforcement and are a little confounded by the multiverse -"

"Never bothered inventing law enforcement? How does that work-"

"Off the total disinclination of anyone to break any laws - they don't seem mind-controlled, that's the first thing I thought of too -"

"I think it makes perfect sense that that's what you get if you put a Miranda in an Arda! But anyway I think the Sanity one hasn't gotten his Fredrick because he's split off from an earlier time from another Sanity Timothy and that Timothy eventually married his Fredrick and they have kids and Elves have a thing about kids? I'm getting all this secondhand through Miranda though, I don't know, I've just been drowning myself in books and coming down for meals."

He looks neutral!

He looks completely horrified!

"Well. That'd make it more important to ask delicately - yeah, Elves have a thing about kids -"

"Yeah, Miranda asked Mirelótë about it, she didn't want to bother the you in case he was sad."

"That's thoughtful of her. Mirelótë have a computer?"

"Yeah, they work fine for Elves, it's just us who might suddenly die or something."

"Well, I very dearly hope Michael doesn't suddenly die. I will bother Mirelótë about Sanity's Findekáno."

- he means he will ask about the names of the children, he's suddenly very upset not to know the names of the children -

"He means he will ask about the names of the children, he's suddenly very upset not to know the names of the children."

Kiss. "I'll ask after you also."

"Aw - sorry, I don't remember their names."

"It's really all right, I'm sure Mirelótë will. Lovely meeting you!"

"You too!"

And they go upstairs.

- what -