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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
"Site of the bomb should not actually be hot in a few days, just radioactive. I'm not commenting on sending Men because apparently my comments on plans make them work less and I expect you to notice all the obvious right things anyway."
purposeful_glory
"Frustrating, that," she remarks. "Am I going to pop in a rad-suited search party? I'd rather not sift through rubble under the circumstances."
"Yeah, we'll take care of it, just need you to pop us in and out."
purposeful_glory
"Sure."
And she goes to furious spell-development.
She makes circuits of evacuated people to see if they need to communicate anything, but tries to keep them short. She sleeps one night on one night off. She works. She has to get off this stupid fucking cylinder.
And she goes to furious spell-development.
She makes circuits of evacuated people to see if they need to communicate anything, but tries to keep them short. She sleeps one night on one night off. She works. She has to get off this stupid fucking cylinder.
They have radiation suits. They ask for a pop north. They find two of the Silmarils.
Keep rummaging but pop Caranthir back with these two in the meantime.
Three weeks later the survey team announces that the third Silmaril isn't present; Morgoth must have figured out how to take it. Though it's odd he'd only take one.
purposeful_glory
...Loki makes a guess. She doesn't share it. She pops the team back to New Himring.
Maedhros probably makes the same guess, judging by how oddly expressionless he goes. That afternoon Fëanor announces that one should believe and convey absolutely no information told to them by the Enemy, even if he swears to its truth. They're willing to have Tyelcormo babysit a Silmaril at one of the other sites as needed.
Everyone would if Morgoth is coming, not really otherwise.
purposeful_glory
Well, he's not on the horizon yet. Just so Loki has fewer things to scramble about if he shows up she thinks distributing the Silmarils would be a good idea anyway; how about she arbitrarily decides on parking him with Dwarves (there are children there)?
Dwarves are great. In that case though they'll have Curufinwë go so he can at least learn from Dwarves while he's there.
Morgoth arrives on the southern continent.
purposeful_glory
Fucking hell. Is Ulmo minding a city yet? How fast does Morgoth move?
There's no city for Ulmo to mind yet; a site has been selected, and might already be under protection, but there's nothing there. Morgoth approaches New Himring; they plant the Silmaril in the central courtyard and stand around it and the ground shakes but he does not approach.
"The third Silmaril has been claimed as his own by Elu Thingol of Doriath," he says, and then moves on.
"The third Silmaril has been claimed as his own by Elu Thingol of Doriath," he says, and then moves on.
"That's the lie I'd pick, too," Fëanor says. "Where's he going, can you get out ahead of him and take someone and this one with you - though honestly - Loki, I swear to you by my name, by my house, before Eru that if you teach me teleportation I will not even try to reverse-engineer the principles behind your sorcerous alphabet until after we have access to your galaxy, but we can have the Silmarils wherever they are needed only with someone teleporting full time and he would love to hold you back from spell development by having you hop across the continent."
purposeful_glory
"...I am tempted," she says, "but the third Silmaril is somewhere even if it's not where he says it is, and you have a preexisting oath about it which concerns me very much."
"Then we can keep chasing Morgoth around the continent with the Silmarils until he finds a way to be three places at once."
purposeful_glory
"Are you allowed to loan them to people who are not under the same oath about them, if you are confident they will return them on request?"
"High bar for 'confident they will return them on request', but yes."