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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
Sleep is less great, so they don't do much of it.
purposeful_glory
Entirely according to plan!
(And in the morning kiss goodbye and a teleport home, no need to do the Walk Or Flight of Not Shame But Potentially Awkward Social Repercussions.)
(And in the morning kiss goodbye and a teleport home, no need to do the Walk Or Flight of Not Shame But Potentially Awkward Social Repercussions.)
And the summer passes uneventfully.
purposeful_glory
Except for Loki gradually sleeping her way through the supply of available amenable Quendi girls. That's an event.
She looks after Men and keeps an eye out for useful things for them to do. She goes to the orc colony to double check that they don't do the Elf marriage thing; they don't, and she can reassure the small orcs about that. She works on her spell, aiming for the elegant version over the bird-cargo version. She visits Lúthien sometimes (finds it much easier not flirting with her under the revised circumstances of her sex life), and checks in on Brithombar a couple times and delivers letters to Mithrim and chats with people there. She hangs out with Dwarves because Dwarves are great, and eventually they should have word from the other kingdoms about whether they want teleporting courier service.
She looks after Men and keeps an eye out for useful things for them to do. She goes to the orc colony to double check that they don't do the Elf marriage thing; they don't, and she can reassure the small orcs about that. She works on her spell, aiming for the elegant version over the bird-cargo version. She visits Lúthien sometimes (finds it much easier not flirting with her under the revised circumstances of her sex life), and checks in on Brithombar a couple times and delivers letters to Mithrim and chats with people there. She hangs out with Dwarves because Dwarves are great, and eventually they should have word from the other kingdoms about whether they want teleporting courier service.
Word takes the expected eighteen months to arrive, and is positive.
purposeful_glory
So Loki learns the locations of other Dwarf kingdoms, goes and says hi, and sees what they'll pay her to bop around with messages and smallish things.
They will pay her quite a lot to do that.
purposeful_glory
Cool. Does she have to do anything complicated to keep it all in one bank?
No, that problem arises often enough there's a mechanism to handle it.
purposeful_glory
Dwarves: great.
So she accumulates money.
And she shows up at Thuringwethil's place.
So she accumulates money.
And she shows up at Thuringwethil's place.
"That's new," Thuringwethil says when she pops in.
"I can bounce around locally, with some preparation. Can't hop the continent at a bound. Congratulations, by the way."
"Need another favor?"
purposeful_glory
"I am here to sound you out for one, although it'd be less of a one-time thing, don't know if you're up for that."
"If Melkor comes after you personally, next, I'm not fighting him."
purposeful_glory
"That is not unreasonable. No, actually the problem is that if Maiar in general come after me with unsavory intentions I cannot on my own locate them. The shadowcatcher only helps to a point. So while I am wanted dead I kind of have to hang out near some Maia, and I have a place to do that but I do not know that it is the best nurturance for the budding civilization of Men, who are even less able than I am to defend themselves from high-powered invasion."
"Makes me nervous, but I'm not set against it. What are you offering?"
"I want to teleport."
"Not by holding your hand."
"I want to teleport under my own power."