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They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
kobold and post-Angband Maedhros
lurkingkobold
That's new. Not as surprising as it could be, though. Quendi.
After the third day of festivities she gets back to work - well, half days, anyway. She wants to get the humans enspelled before she starts working on immortality.
lurkingkobold
That's enough to get a good fraction of the humans enspelled. (Tirinquo comes with her and hangs out while she works.)
lurkingkobold
Excellent. It's not a hard spell, exactly; the complicated bit was more in figuring out what to do than in doing it. She sets up a few demonstrations to get them started, and is snuggly and pleased when she stops in to see Findekáno that afternoon.
lurkingkobold
About half, the other mages can take care of the rest. I'm starting work on immortality next.
lurkingkobold
Yeah. I expect it'll be at least months, maybe a couple years, it's the same kind of complicated that the birth control is and more so, but I'm pretty sure I can do it.
neither-power-nor-glory
That'll be good. You have lots of time, at least, even if these humans are like the ones in your world they'll live many more years -
lurkingkobold
Mmhmm. And I think Tirinquo's older than I am, but only by a few years, none of us are in urgent need. But it changes things, if I can be pretty sure I'll be around after the war.
lurkingkobold
...Huh. No, they're at least close to my age, and pretty normal for it apart from what the stressplant is doing. They aren't working on the same kind of scale I do, but most of us don't.
lurkingkobold
Ah. Yeah, no, most people only give it up when they start feeling like they can't sneak around well enough any more; it's uncommon for someone to still be going out at a hundred, but not that unusual.
lurkingkobold
Nod. If they ever want to stop using the stressplant it might be a problem, but they seem to be okay with it.
lurkingkobold
No bad ones. They're kind of forward about approaching people, which Quendi don't seem to mind but humans do sometimes, and every once in a while someone'll need to warn them about something they've forgotten is dangerous, but they're doing okay in general, they aren't wandering off and getting into trouble or anything.