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Loki goes instantly where Huan tells her. She has a safety against landing intersected with solid objects, her or any of her belongings, so dramatic as it would be she can't just appear with her opponent already impaled. She has to actually stab him.
So she stabs him, spikes him from there. And hollows out Lævateinn and channels ice into the wound.
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purposeful_glory
The way you describe Asgard is delightful, you know.
purposeful_glory
It's such a silly place. I understand it but it's so silly.
Everyone will say of the Quendi that our hobbies are singing and looking pretty and that our visible tech level is 'did Fëanor invent that?''yes''you didn't even look what I was pointing at' and our foreign policy shall be 'come if you want to be here and leave if you don't'.
And you haven't even seen us when we have occasion to look pretty. In Valinor we spent so much time at it, it was ridiculous.
purposeful_glory
Well, what's osanwë for if it's not for wowing me with pretty Valinor slideshows?
He raises an eyebrow. Then -
The sky is shimmering, gold and silver and where they meet they're white with ripples of the deep ultraviolet she couldn't see before Curufinwë made her the enchanted glasses. There's a hill, lightly sloping, children rolling down the embankments, people picnicking in the shade, and there's a city on the hill, white stone with high walls, glittering.
The streets would be wide but in fact are crowded with carts; each of them a different and extravagant work of engineering, many of them obviously a bad idea - carts of stained glass, carts of blown glass, crystal and copper and steel.
Maitimo is standing at the end of the street. His hair is done up elaborately in eight crisscrossing braids, he's wearing a circlet, his robes are red and silver and pool at his feet without getting dusty.
Lúthien said she'd shown you osanwë collaborative imagining -
The sky is shimmering, gold and silver and where they meet they're white with ripples of the deep ultraviolet she couldn't see before Curufinwë made her the enchanted glasses. There's a hill, lightly sloping, children rolling down the embankments, people picnicking in the shade, and there's a city on the hill, white stone with high walls, glittering.
The streets would be wide but in fact are crowded with carts; each of them a different and extravagant work of engineering, many of them obviously a bad idea - carts of stained glass, carts of blown glass, crystal and copper and steel.
Maitimo is standing at the end of the street. His hair is done up elaborately in eight crisscrossing braids, he's wearing a circlet, his robes are red and silver and pool at his feet without getting dusty.
Lúthien said she'd shown you osanwë collaborative imagining -
purposeful_glory
She did, we chased each other around and I got creative and she declared defeat. Loki plops herself into the street. This is gorgeous, although some of those carts look like they'll fall apart if they run into each other.
We have contests! People roll them down the hill, try to keep things in one piece. People on the streets are handing her jewelry. Necklaces with fine chains that pool in your hand like a liquid, rings, earrings, hairpieces with glittering gemstones inset -
purposeful_glory
Is this rate of jewelry acquisition customary? Seems unsustainable.
I always assumed people didn't give out jewelry to each other at quite the rate they gave it to me - privileges of rank, you know - but also if you go out fully adorned people won't be nearly as inclined to throw more things at you.
Some of the other carts have food. She can smell it. I can't do taste, though. Shame, I bet Thauron'd would have taught me if I'd asked, if I'd caught him in the right mood.
Tirion-Maitimo waves a hand and everyone backs off a few paces. They wade on through. The storefronts are getting more official and more elaborate. The buildings here all have shady facades under which people are arguing animatedly, or eating, or lying with their heads in the lap of their husband or wife, using gemstones to make rainbows flicker across the awnings. Rainbows are more vivid in Valinor.
Some of the other carts have food. She can smell it. I can't do taste, though. Shame, I bet Thauron'd would have taught me if I'd asked, if I'd caught him in the right mood.
Tirion-Maitimo waves a hand and everyone backs off a few paces. They wade on through. The storefronts are getting more official and more elaborate. The buildings here all have shady facades under which people are arguing animatedly, or eating, or lying with their heads in the lap of their husband or wife, using gemstones to make rainbows flicker across the awnings. Rainbows are more vivid in Valinor.
purposeful_glory
Occasions when it's more appropriate for me to look shiny than lethal are few and far between on Asgard, and I never cared that much about what I wore, so I don't have that much jewelry. She sticks a clip in her hair anyway.
When we first started designing armor it was very exciting to try to imagine being lethal instead of shiny. Shiny we were very good at.
The street meets a dozen other streets in an enormous plaza whose centerpiece is an enormous fountain, easily a hundred feet high; you can feel the mist on the air even here. Children are playing in its base. The palace, ahead, is clearly held up more by magic than by stone, marble that thin could not support a dome that large or that elaborate. Some of the people up ahead don't move out of her way, but she has to nearly bump into them to realize that they're statues, astonishing ones, a woman resting her head on a man's shoulder as they stare adoringly at a child on the edge of the fountain.
My mother did those all over the city. There's one of each of us.
The street meets a dozen other streets in an enormous plaza whose centerpiece is an enormous fountain, easily a hundred feet high; you can feel the mist on the air even here. Children are playing in its base. The palace, ahead, is clearly held up more by magic than by stone, marble that thin could not support a dome that large or that elaborate. Some of the people up ahead don't move out of her way, but she has to nearly bump into them to realize that they're statues, astonishing ones, a woman resting her head on a man's shoulder as they stare adoringly at a child on the edge of the fountain.
My mother did those all over the city. There's one of each of us.
Palace? Libraries? Findekáno's house? My family lived outside the city.
purposeful_glory
You're the tour guide. Although I suspect it might be mildly frustrating to try to actually read library books in a collaborative imagining?
I don't think it would work. It shouldn't even work this well but for the eidetic memory necklaces, though maybe they stretch this far. He walks towards the palace.
The walls and ceilings of the palace are all translucent so the Treelight streams through, although somewhat diluted. The floor is stone polished to resemble the night sky. There's golden tengwar detailing around the edges and on the arched doors and in the next room, wood-paneled.
Me too! I wanted one like that in Himring but the Dwarves said it wasn't possible. I suppose perhaps the Valar helped.
We can remodel when I get home.
The next room is brighter, more spacious, the walls some kind of engraving with glass incorporated that tells the story of the arrival of the Noldor in Valinor. There's three concentric elevated semicircles of marble and atop them a very glittery throne. Maitimo vanishes from in front of her and is suddenly sitting atop it, eyes alight, smiling at her.
The next room is brighter, more spacious, the walls some kind of engraving with glass incorporated that tells the story of the arrival of the Noldor in Valinor. There's three concentric elevated semicircles of marble and atop them a very glittery throne. Maitimo vanishes from in front of her and is suddenly sitting atop it, eyes alight, smiling at her.
Grace, usually. What is it in Asgard? Come sit here with me and sing, the acoustics are amazing. When Macalaurë was still a child Grandfather'd let him sit in his lap and sing for hours - the whole room would fill up - Macalaurë was so proud of himself - I might have been slightly jealous -