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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
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neither-power-nor-glory
He shakes his head and looks exhausted. All right. Well. If it's Maitimo in charge that's something, he's less reckless.
lurkingkobold
She looks sympathetic. Yeah. Except they're not so much in charge. They aren't there; they aren't well enough to go or even write. And their siblings are still figuring out what to make of this - we just got in touch with them yesterday, and I only worked out that that wording was safe for me to maybe swear like half an hour before they spotted you; they've mostly been assuming that it was some kind of trick.
Maitimo wants to do right by you. It's very, very obvious. But they're not in a position to make that happen.
neither-power-nor-glory
Maitimo has had lots of opportunities to do right by us. I'm very sure 'wants to, and can't make it happen' is in fact exactly where he likes to present himself.
lurkingkobold
I don't know most of what happened, just some of the results. And I'm not sure you want to know the details. She shudders.
neither-power-nor-glory
I just - can't imagine someone being Maitimo at all, and not being good at people.
lurkingkobold
They want to be. They're working on it. I can tell they used to be, some of the skills are still there even if the things they originally built them on aren't, and they're frustrated to have trouble doing things that used to be easy. But, yeah. For someone who spent thirty years in those conditions, I think they're doing really well, but they still spent thirty years in those conditions. It's hard to come back from that kind of thing.
lurkingkobold
Nod. I'll go ask. Shouldn't be long.
Hey. Going okay so far; they'd like to know what happened to your parent, Fëanaro.
neither-power-nor-glory
So Macalaure's regent for Maitimo, and he's sorry but can't do anything, not in charge at the moment, definitely isn't a manipulation I don't even know how anymore...
lurkingkobold
Yeah. We're hoping you might have an idea for something we can do. I'm almost tempted to go steal the things back but that'd definitely cause problems.
neither-power-nor-glory
We weren't expecting the things back. A portal to a safe place to settle will do it.
lurkingkobold
Nod. 'Safe' isn't something I can aim for directly, but if you have scouts I can find places with whatever kind of terrain you like for them to check.
lurkingkobold
I can ask. They might only be okay with talking to you through a portal, though, and osanwe doesn't work that way.
neither-power-nor-glory
Speaking aloud is fine. It's just that if he's pretending to be bad at things I think I can tell and if he really is he needs me.
lurkingkobold
Mmhmm. No luck with ideas but maybe they'll come up with something given time.
Findekáno - image - would like to talk to you. They aren't upset, or not very, as far as I can tell.