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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.
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secondchance
"Ah, Valimar, Alqualondë, various locations where one could go cave-crawling or cliff-diving - there's a song for cliff-diving - mountain climbing..."
A teasing smile. He is still allowed teasing smiles, right? He has been forgiven and so theirs can be a friendship that includes teasing smiles. "Why, everything is exceptionally pretty! Is that not sufficiently motivating?"
secondchance
Kib does not chide him for the teasing smile. "But things are also exceptionally pretty right here!"
"Differently exceptional, and differently pretty. And you might like some of the people in the south, I hear they're charming and eccentric and think the Valar are wrong about all sorts of things..."
"...this is not information you need. But okay. Your first cousin is the child of your father's brother. Or mother's sister, whatever. Your second cousin is the grandchild of your grandfather's brother. Marrying first cousins is generally out, second cousins is fine."
"Because the point of romantic relationships is reproduction and you can't reproduce with close family, it's bad for the child."
"I don't know. The problem arises in animals too, though. They have different mechanisms for avoiding it."