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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
"I suppose I have a couple of centuries on everyone on your world so even things I don't do remarkably well look very practiced. And I really have to take you to hear Cáno sing."
secondchance
"From a different time zone, and it's hard to adjust when it's bright all the time. The sun's only up half the time and I usually sleep when it's dark."
"Oh! if you'd like I can find you a room that is underground and therefore dark! Some people who were used to the Outer Lands prefer that."
"People who sleep every day often sleep when Laurelin is at her peak, because that's when it's brightest and hottest and least pleasant to be outside."
secondchance
"Makes sense! I am in fact accustomed to sleeping every day. I could probably sleep now if I tried, should I try?"
"Let's go ride a horse!" He stands, gracefully, and pushes back his chair and closes the door to his office which retracts into the frame so it usually looks like it doesn't have one.
"I want people to feel like they can always walk in and interrupt me, but a door that's ajar is very annoying and gets in the way and doesn't come across quite as welcoming. I had to remove half the wall to do this instead but it looks so much nicer."
Would make it impossible to steal some occasional privacy in a location less fraught - and less disastrous if found - than his bedroom, though.
"I should have thought of that."
"We actually had to call a Vala! The palace was built before we knew enough about architecture to do elaborate stone buildings and so is mostly held up by magic."
