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This is the wrong building. She could have sworn the RA said "take a left at Emily, first on your right", and Bella did exactly that, and here she is and the rooms in this place don't even seem to be numbered, it's all letters and names. She's not going to find Intro to Subtle Therapy in Room 206 like that. Maybe the RA meant take a left after Emily, not before Emily? Maybe she was supposed to go the other way around the quad and approach Emily from the other direction? She's going to be late.
Bella tries to get out of the letter-named-rooms building to go ask Emily for directions, but that's not a stairwell after all, and there's someone shouting at her not to come in and she flinches back and clonks her elbow on the door and boots or no boots she's down and she -
- is falling -
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subtly_artistic
Then we hope very much that Finwë stays King for all the ages of the world.
She's not.
Even if Fëanáro were an atrociously bad King he wouldn't hurt anyone, you know, that wouldn't be allowed. I realized that your referent for unstable leader is probably different than mine.
Even if Fëanáro were an atrociously bad King he wouldn't hurt anyone, you know, that wouldn't be allowed. I realized that your referent for unstable leader is probably different than mine.
Being very demanding and unreasonable so everyone secretly resents him, mismanaging public events and the running of the city in a way that makes it harder for people to live in it without having some extraordinary talent, requisitioning peoples' things on a whim, making himself and everyone around him miserable, vanishing for weeks at a time. What were you imagining?
subtly_artistic
Honestly all the examples I can think of involve hurting people at some remove. I'm probably not well-calibrated to judge Valinor monarchs as atrocious, just 'not very good'.
Well, mismanagement hurts people compared to good management. No one would starve and no one would be homeless only because the King couldn't actually mismanage enough to change that. No one would be tortured, though, because there are no conceivable circumstances under which anyone here would allow it.
He sighs and lies down. Let's just hope there's no way to get to other planes.
If there is one don't tell him about it, I'm quite serious.
...and therefore might invent it on his own.
Are you optimistic about getting Miriel back?
Are you optimistic about getting Miriel back?
subtly_artistic
...I can't tell you, it's technically a problem that you might be able to guess from my mood or something.
You seemed pretty discouraged this morning but I thought it might be any number of things. She's not the only project in your life, and probably shouldn't be, for more reasons than that it makes it easy to guess what's up by your mood.
subtly_artistic
Yeah. I'm not very practiced at picking up project-y things when there aren't any books about them, is the trouble.
Tell Fëanáro to write you one.
That he is. Should we try smoke signals, if he doesn't know to look?
subtly_artistic
It might take a few tries to get them legible anyway, so we could.
So they ask for wood, light a fire, and start trying to work out how this can best be done.
subtly_artistic
Bella's only seen smoke signals used in cartoons, but they involve stencils, in cartoons.
So they try to find materials for stencils.
subtly_artistic
Big leaves will work! And Bella has a knife with which to cut out the letters. The ones with enclosed parts will need some adaptation to be stencils.
They consume several hours in trying to make these appear clearly in the sky.