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Tumunzahar makes Menegroth look like a contract project. Which, the Dwarves assure her, it was. The stonework is astonishingly careful and beautiful, silky to the touch up close while from a distance it gives the impression of stretching on forever above, a sky of stone with crystals for stars. Vast natural cave systems are connected by dozens of perfectly smooth, gently sloped broad stone pathways from which the fall, if she fell, would be several miles down. There are handrails. "We use those to move materials carts," someone explains to her, "we're not going to be reckless."
There's an amphitheater, a place where a hundred of the stone walkways twine around to create space for a hundred thousand people to sit in close proximity, and someone is giving a lecture or a demonstration at the base of it, the seats closest to him filled with eager, tiny, bearded Dwarf-children.
And they spiral down, and down, and down, past waterfalls and egg-sized gemstones left half in the rock and halls of crystal. Everything grows gradually more ornate and more perfectly maintained and the clang of hammers fades behind them. "People say," her guide says, "that we only have a council instead of a single King because there were nine winners of the competition to design the throne so we couldn't just select one person to sit it." And they push open the doors to reveal, indeed, nine thrones so elaborate it would be hard to choose between them, and nine squat bearded people sitting them.
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One still there. One not. Not everyone in the host is, though; some people have wandered off to guard duty.
purposeful_glory
Hrm. She doesn't have anything to accuse them of besides creepily dressing alike, anyway.
And maybe that's a trend among Quendi twins, because there's another pair, again quite a distance apart.
purposeful_glory
...She collects pictures of these two. Is twinning common?
She hadn't met any previously, but how many Quendi has she talked to? When evening comes Nolofinwë gets tired of asking Sarpalarë questions and declares an end to the day.
purposeful_glory
Right, of him and Findekáno and Irissë who looks least stressed out?
Irissë, probably. She is the only one eating.
"Hey.
Why the fuck not just say it? 'I wanted to shoot Fëanor, so I took a bow and did it?' This way, we're all looking for accomplices, for crazy conspiracies, for someone keeping her silent. That way, half the crowd would be applauding."
Why the fuck not just say it? 'I wanted to shoot Fëanor, so I took a bow and did it?' This way, we're all looking for accomplices, for crazy conspiracies, for someone keeping her silent. That way, half the crowd would be applauding."
purposeful_glory
"I have been thinking about that all day." That and, is it customary for Quendi twins to wear matching outfits?
"If she asked Father to understand I think he would. This helps no one." I thought Telufinwë was dead?
"That occurred to me. But taking an oath not to confess to something you did is honestly stupider than shooting my uncle." Fëanaro's youngest two sons are the only twins in all of Valinor. They did sometimes dress alike but Telufinwë is dead, so when would you have seen them both?
purposeful_glory
I saw two different sets of twins here, today, watching. I have their pictures - She obscures the space around her notebook, passes it over. "It could be to protect her conspirator."
"Her conspirator is a coward." Neither of those people have twins.
purposeful_glory
Well, I wasn't making illusions of them walk around, so why would they be duplicated? "I'd draw a distinction but I don't know what distinction it would be."
"Between the shooting someone from behind kind of cowardly and the making someone else swear not to tell that you asked them to shoot someone from behind kind of cowardly? I guess it's a difference of degree. But a big one." Maitimo thought that Moringotto put him through whatever he put him through to get someone to imitate him?
Oh good.
purposeful_glory
How would I be the only person to notice an extra one of two different people? ...And if you think they're being impersonated their safety should be verified as soon as possible.
Yeah I just asked Finno to check. You wouldn't be the only one to notice two people with doubles. You might be the only one to notice a single impersonater, frequently changing faces, because the rest of us would see a friend and think 'why'd he move that fast' not 'he has a twin'...
I realize this is objectively bad news but I'm just enjoying that this was caused by Morgoth not someone I care about.
purposeful_glory
Well, we'll need to know more to know exactly what he did or whether Sarpalarë's behavior is directly attributable. Who knew both of these people well enough to pass for them and was captured?
Maitimo.