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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
"They're amazing - awe-inspiring to be around, a lot of fun to watch - but I wouldn't take you down there, not when if you die you die forever."
"The south is more liberal, too. A lot of couples from Cuivienen who the Valar disapproved of moved down there."
"Being of the royal house of the Noldor complicates a lot of things. In general though I would say it makes dating men easier."
"Have to be way more careful, are under a lot more scrutiny, but once you figure out how to navigate those - we can all travel the countryside practically at will, we can give people absurdly nice things with no scrutiny, and everyone knows who we are. And for some people it's specifically appealing. Thus sneaking into throne room and so forth."
secondchance
"Friend of mine back home once dated the governor's apprentice but I'm not sure this captures the described phenomenon very exactly, especially since they didn't sneak around."
"Anyway if I were nobody maybe my parents would decide they didn't care and invite my boyfriend to dinner or maybe they'd have me sent to Lórien for straightening out. I am not nobody and so both of those are out of reach."
"Not - legally. But it is very hard and fraught to disobey your family, particularly when everyone you've ever spoken to agrees with them -"
"I struggle with whether stopping the Valar from fixing young people is a pressing moral problem. It's not as if they're less happy afterwards, and the Valar don't do it without consent. I have been accused of only caring because it limits my dating pool."
secondchance
"I think the underlying priorities such that the Valar - can we not call it 'fixing' that's horrible - tamper with people are the pressing moral problem."