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Akibel Mowar is on his way home from the blacksmith's when he spots it. People are shrieking and fleeing from it, which seems reasonable, as it's a fuckoff huge snake with a mirror for a face. A big mirror.
Kib can't so much flee. He can shriek - he can lurch in the direction of the nearest house and try the door - it's locked. He can amble briskly...
He can break into a run when the snake gains on him and fall flat on his face.
And he can get eaten up.
And it's too bright too bright too bright and he flings his arm over his eyes.
secondchance
secondchance
The answer you are looking for may be either 'I have no fucking clue' or 'a bizarre monster that looked like a snake with a full-length mirror for a face ate me and apparently that causes people to land in strange worlds'."
Ah! I was looking for the second answer, it's more exciting. Welcome to Tirion. How are you liking it? I can't stand the place personally.
secondchance
It is way, way, too bright, which is why I put shades over my eyes. And apparently our species have mutually disturbing traits. But it seems pretty nice overall.
Their babies appear in the wild and a significant fraction of them die, the prince Nelyafinwë says.
His brother goes very still for a second. Then he hugs him. Eru. Fuck. What are we going to do?
His brother goes very still for a second. Then he hugs him. Eru. Fuck. What are we going to do?
secondchance
I've been considering tracking down the inventor of storks and seeing if they'll take help filling out the ranks. I understand why they'd do it anonymously but they could clearly use a little more servantmaker labor on the project. I'm not best suited to detective work but it might be doable.
secondchance
Uh, control of where children go could get intensely political very fast. If you control storks and you don't like some city-state or some culture or some ideological minority, bam, suddenly you have dramatically more kids than they do, maybe they don't have any, you don't have to lift another finger, they're out of population in a few decades.
Well your world's a horror show isn't it. Huh. Okay. Too bad none of us can do servant-making. I take it we can't just personally raise the kids.
secondchance
There's too many of them, even if you assume absolute convenience of transport. It would also be a major project to raise them in such a way that you could put them back in my civilization so it didn't collapse, but apparently you'd all be up for that, it's just the numbers that don't work.
Yeah, I mean, we're not letting kids die because it'd be an awful lot of work for that to never ever happen. Huh. Okay. Someone should ride out and get the Valar.
Go for it, the prince Nelyafinwë says, and his brother tosses his hair and waves and races off at a run.
He can probably make it in a week.
He can probably make it in a week.
It is how I was ordering music copied and guest rooms made available and telling him to meet us at the gates in the first place. It's very useful.
I think I am mostly only hearing things you are directing at me. If you want I can learn the language and then you can just ask people not to listen to you.
secondchance
Are languages really easy for your species or something, you make that sound really trivial.