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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
Maedhros looks quite delighted at it, and while he makes no effort at all to hurry her out his eyes keep flitting to the paper like he'd rather be reading it.
She has Elven vision goggles that also have the improved true sight written into them.
He beats her in their third and fourth game of Governor, but in the fifth she pulls a series of brilliant moves that he insists are the best he's seen from anyone and wins, resoundingly.
Fëanor slows himself back to normal perception. He's close, he says. He's confident it will work.
He beats her in their third and fourth game of Governor, but in the fifth she pulls a series of brilliant moves that he insists are the best he's seen from anyone and wins, resoundingly.
Fëanor slows himself back to normal perception. He's close, he says. He's confident it will work.
purposeful_glory
She likes her goggles! She fixes the temperature of some buildings. She enjoys Governor very much. And she's super excited about the library.
A snowstorm leaves the streets buried in fine powder. The Elves walk on it and get annoyed with Men and Loki for walking through it, it's so pretty undisturbed!
purposeful_glory
Hey, if somebody wants to hand out magic snowshoes...
Failing that: no, you do not get to confine people to their houses because they don't have your snow-walking ability.
Failing that: no, you do not get to confine people to their houses because they don't have your snow-walking ability.
No one can figure out magic snowshoes. The snow melts soon enough anyway. There is icicle swordfighting. And then Fëanor says to her - "it's done."
purposeful_glory
"Cool. How does it work? Should I give you a tour of the virtual Library of Asgard?"
"That one's too hard, this is just 'library of things Loki read', with some weird filters such that some of it may actually be a bit off but it should be most definite in the areas we care about most."
purposeful_glory
"Okay, well, that's still a lot of books. How will it materialize?"
"In your head, regrettably. I have lots of blank books you can copy things to."
purposeful_glory
"Okay. I will resign myself to being a printer for a while."
"I could have had a nicer version in six months. Didn't seem like a wise tradeoff."
purposeful_glory
"Yeah, it won't take me six months to get the physics books out. I will spare you the extraneous literature."
"Please don't spare me it," he says earnestly. "...though let's kill the Enemy first."
purposeful_glory
"When we have killed the Enemy I will produce as many Asgardian romance novels from my reading history as you can tolerate but I am not in the least confident they would be to your taste."
"It'd be sociologically interesting if nothing else," he says, "the Eldar can't exactly retrieve the norms surrounding love and marriage that we had before the Valar enlightened us, and we can learn from looking at Men and Dwarves but I'm not sure we're intended to be like them - people keep petitioning me to Do Something about your Men, incidentally, but I'm trusting you that all children are growing up with loving parents whatever bizarre depravities the adults get up to in their free time? I'd enjoy Asgardian romance novels. Well, two or three of them, enough to find patterns. When the worlds are all safe and the wars are all over."
purposeful_glory
"The children are all well looked after by various combinations of loving adults," Loki confirms.
"Then the next person to waste my time gets less of it off to waste."
And he leaves her to be a copier for physics textbooks.
purposeful_glory
She copies physics textbooks. Particles! Waves! Forces! Interactions of these things with various kinds of galactic magic in general and non-alphabet sorcery in particular!
She can do a couple pages a second, stamping illusions as fast as she can turn paper.
She can do a couple pages a second, stamping illusions as fast as she can turn paper.
That means they'll have enough to go off by the end of the day.
purposeful_glory
She can keep going past that so they have spare references. She's read a lot of science in her lifetime.