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Loki parks in Doriath for another six years. She manages to make friends with some of the people who have things to do in accelerated perception. The Men who started as babies are full grown. The spell comes along and she refreshes everyone serving as a sorcery backup on a routine basis. She visits people between stints of work; during same she does things that she doesn't have to move around much to do. Writes a memoir. Screws around with decorative illusions. Sleeps, when absolutely necessary.
She's asleep when the quake hits. But not for very long.
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purposeful_glory
"Wait," Tyelcormo says, "what?" And to the Tesseract, "hey, apologies, I didn't realize you were a person and I have unusually little excuse for that. I am extremely curious why you picked us to throw Loki at, and less curious why you picked Loki to throw power at because she's clearly a very good candidate, but still."
purposeful_glory
The Tesseract stays where it is in Loki's stick.
"It is an inanimate object," Loki says, "in approximately the same way Huan is a dog. I think it would probably present itself differently if it wished to be included in conversations. Do you want me to ask it why Arda?"
"Huan doesn't talk but he appreciates not being treated like part of the scenery. If it cares to tell you why Arda, I am eager to know."
purposeful_glory
"Well, yes, dogs are more nonscenery than inanimate objects as a general rule," Loki says, "it's an analogy is all," and she pokes the Tesseract.
I am not the Time Stone and I was pretending to be a Bifrost malfunction, it says, I had to choose someplace Heimdall couldn't look which had a good place to put you at the right moment.
Loki relays this answer.
I am not the Time Stone and I was pretending to be a Bifrost malfunction, it says, I had to choose someplace Heimdall couldn't look which had a good place to put you at the right moment.
Loki relays this answer.
"I am not going to tell my father it's a good thing he burned the ships so everyone would be on the Helcaraxe at the right moment," Tyelcormo says.
"You are damn well not going to tell him that," Irissë says, her hand tightening on the practice sword.
"You are damn well not going to tell him that," Irissë says, her hand tightening on the practice sword.
purposeful_glory
Oh, there was plenty going on before that too, the Tesseract says. Imagine if you hadn't been a frost giant, I couldn't have reasonably dropped you on the Helcaraxë at all, would have had to be somewhere else.
"It says there was also plenty going on before that," Loki says, "and that it would not have been able to drop me on the Helcaraxë if I weren't," she checks for unauthorized eavesdroppers, "a frost giant, it would have had to put me someplace else."
"It says there was also plenty going on before that," Loki says, "and that it would not have been able to drop me on the Helcaraxë if I weren't," she checks for unauthorized eavesdroppers, "a frost giant, it would have had to put me someplace else."
There's a moment of silence.
"No point in replaying everything," Tyelcormo says. "We won."
"And we're sorry," Maitimo says.
"And we're sorry."
"No point in replaying everything," Tyelcormo says. "We won."
"And we're sorry," Maitimo says.
"And we're sorry."
Irissë grins at her sheepishly. "I am going to beat him up for that sometime but not, like, angrily."
"You are welcome to try," Tyelcormo says.
einridi
Thor giggles. "He does fight well for a boy, doesn't he?" she says to Irissë.
All of the Elves are extremely entertained at this, and vary in how well they hide it. Irissë beams at Thor. "You should see him shoot. Excellent, for a boy."
einridi
"I should see that!" Thor agrees. She turns to Tyelcormo with a delighted grin. "Will you show me?"
"That I bet I can best you in," he says, "we have sharper senses. Where's a good place for it?"
einridi
"I'm no archer," shrugs Thor, "plenty of people could best me at archery. There's a range close by, but if you're that impressive should we be setting up targets in a field somewhere?"
He glances at Irissë. "We'll probably want a mile or so of space."
einridi
"Loki!" says Thor, turning to her sister. "Where should we hold this demonstration?"
purposeful_glory
"Oh -" She pops everybody to a nice open wilderness spot with trees. "How's this?"
purposeful_glory
And Loki puts them all back to pick out bows. She grabs one too.