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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
Snuggle. "Immortality would still have been nothing to sneeze at and maybe somebody would have tipped me off that there were places other than Tirion, but yeah, this is pleasanter."
adebarsteine
(Aly's inviting neighbors over because her teacher made way too much lentil soup, Aly's taking notes on a book about golem programming, Aly's talking to the Harthanic Preservation Society, Aly's cider is too hot and she burns her tongue)
secondchance
Mostly Findekáno, although he'll have to come up with something else if Maitimo asks. At least he has a really good excuse to hum to himself as he walks place to place.
It's a short letter:
Think there's a useful avenue for a magical solution to aging. It's going to require a ridiculous amount of data handling and the testing will be convoluted, but I should have it within a Year, certainly within two.
Think there's a useful avenue for a magical solution to aging. It's going to require a ridiculous amount of data handling and the testing will be convoluted, but I should have it within a Year, certainly within two.
secondchance
"Ooh. - I wonder if an eidetic golem would be useful for data handling. Years here are long enough that it might meaningfully speed up the immortality project and certainly the next thing to come along if it did help."
secondchance
"Well, I'm not sure what he means by 'data handling', but, potentially, that, golems can remember anything you tell them or they absorb if you make them to do that and people can use them for math problems and searching a library of data they have the golem read or whatever."
"Ooooohhh. I bet there's a way to use that for some of the experimental parts. Though it's hard for me to say, the level of engineering involved in that kind of thing is well beyond me. Want to head over to my family home? I'm visiting to see my sister and you could talk it over with him."
"I got the impression my mother had several girl names she'd wanted and now had a girl and was damned well going to use them. It's Lári most of the time."
"Should we head over right now, or do you want to come find me when you're at a good point to stop?"
So they make the trip out of the city. Fëanor is not in his workshop for once; he is sitting inside, holding the baby, and there's an exhausted-looking woman with him. "Hello," Maitimo says. "Kib thinks his magic does data handling magically."
"Oh, really," he says. "The whole field of cryptography will be born dead, then - or, depending exactly what you can do - what can you do?"
"Oh, really," he says. "The whole field of cryptography will be born dead, then - or, depending exactly what you can do - what can you do?"
secondchance
"I don't think they do cryptography - or at least they don't yet - but sophisticated libraries sometimes have talking golems who read everything in the library and can tell people what they're looking for, mathematicians occasionally use them if they can get them, that sort of thing. They're not that widely used because they're so time-consuming to make, but that's by human standards."