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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
Right, so we have it better, it's obvious precisely how we need to change things.
I'm really not trying to talk you out of going home. When I realized that your world doesn't have families, that they just wouldn't care at all, I was tempted, and I have obligations and commitments and a whole life here. I just. If the message communicated so clearly was that there's something wrong with you, there isn't. There's something wrong with our gods and it's going to be hard to fix.
I'm really not trying to talk you out of going home. When I realized that your world doesn't have families, that they just wouldn't care at all, I was tempted, and I have obligations and commitments and a whole life here. I just. If the message communicated so clearly was that there's something wrong with you, there isn't. There's something wrong with our gods and it's going to be hard to fix.
secondchance
I didn't take it as a blow to my ego, I have more than enough ego to contradict deities, it was just a statement about how pleasant things can be here.
This is maybe slightly less Maitimo's fault than I was inclined to make it out to be. Except that he's politically powerful enough he could at least - do something with it - nah, actually, still his fault.
He will be very upset to hear you're leaving.
He will be very upset to hear you're leaving.
Yes, really!! He thinks very highly of you! If I were you I'd just corner him and demand an apology, he'd probably manage a suitably graceful one, but I trust you had reasons for not doing that.
secondchance
I figured if he wanted to apologize he'd do it and if he didn't I had no interest in a coerced one!
And he figured that you were avoiding him because you preferred not to interact with him and wouldn't appreciate being chased down.
secondchance
Well, aren't we a bunch of really mature sorts. Sigh. Although I find it kind of hard to believe that he thinks very highly of me considering. Like - you guys are telepathic, he could have steered me away from making socially unacceptable remarks privately maybe?
By about halfway through the concert he has stopped watching the singers and is watching Kib. Not very aggressively, just - lost in thought.
And the music ends with dramatic bright lights in the air and he says "...so, we can jump down, there's a song, but I just told you the god of the dead is the worst so I wouldn't blame you if you don't want to give it a go."
secondchance
"I think I would like to be very conservative in exposing myself to the possibility of encountering him up close and personal," Kib agrees.
He switches songs only once Kib is safely on the ground, and jumps. "On the one hand, Mandos. On the other hand, looks pretty cool, doesn't it?"
"I can commission you a ring of grace. Fëanáro can make you one too but if you're not on speaking terms with them. It'll be done in about five weeks."
"Is that still undecided?" He sounds absurdly hopeful. "Yes, I suppose Fëanáro would have tested that. It should work anywhere. For going somewhere dangerous I'd take rings for grace, reflexes, healing. Doesn't cure the thing where you die, though."
secondchance
"It does not. And I might well rather not die alone the one way than the other, it's not like I left a boyfriend back home."