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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 am pleased that that's a desire you'd have on learning that your boyfriend is going to be the first mass murderer in all of history.
secondchance
...The part where the Dwarves died was not you and seemed earlier than any of the parts we have where you were killing people.
secondchance
It doesn't seem like your style, admittedly, but there is clearly more going on that we don't know about.
I didn't recognize anyone. There weren't many faces visible on my side and the people we attacked were all strangers to me.
This is a lot to process. I think I'm going to take the day off and go for a ride. I promise not to make any irrevocable or even difficult-to-revoke decisions.
He leaves. Findekáno watches him unhappily.
I think I will talk to my cousins before I go to the Valar.
I think I will talk to my cousins before I go to the Valar.
He reschedules some things and goes out riding after Maitimo. It does not take him very long to catch up.
Hey.
Hey, Maitimo says. I have some ideas about what could have happened but none of them are very actionable.
In particular?
If I was someone's second in command, and they were set on this, and our people were set on this, and it was happening either way and the only question was whether I'd personally be guilty of it - I think I might do it. Try to minimize loss of life. That's why I asked to see it, see if that's a conceivable interpretation - but there's not enough, and it did not look like that was what was going on in the bits there were...
And you can trivially 'avoid your fate' by deciding to instead sit it out, but that saves no one and so knowing this changes nothing.
Yes. There are probably other situations like that but that's the one that came to mind.
They are miles from civilization; there are trees all around. Findekáno kisses him. He goes very still for it.
This isn't something you're doing wrong, Findekáno says. I'm sure people will see it that way, should you go kill lots of people and this is ever revealed, but that doesn't mean they'll be right.
Says you're dead.
Yeah.
Do you think I killed you?
I am very sure that if we met in Mandos I still loved you.
How in Arda can you be sure of that.
...don't know. But I am. I will do everything in my power to stop you and if I have to I will kill you and regardless I will love you.
Hey.
Hey, Maitimo says. I have some ideas about what could have happened but none of them are very actionable.
In particular?
If I was someone's second in command, and they were set on this, and our people were set on this, and it was happening either way and the only question was whether I'd personally be guilty of it - I think I might do it. Try to minimize loss of life. That's why I asked to see it, see if that's a conceivable interpretation - but there's not enough, and it did not look like that was what was going on in the bits there were...
And you can trivially 'avoid your fate' by deciding to instead sit it out, but that saves no one and so knowing this changes nothing.
Yes. There are probably other situations like that but that's the one that came to mind.
They are miles from civilization; there are trees all around. Findekáno kisses him. He goes very still for it.
This isn't something you're doing wrong, Findekáno says. I'm sure people will see it that way, should you go kill lots of people and this is ever revealed, but that doesn't mean they'll be right.
Says you're dead.
Yeah.
Do you think I killed you?
I am very sure that if we met in Mandos I still loved you.
How in Arda can you be sure of that.
...don't know. But I am. I will do everything in my power to stop you and if I have to I will kill you and regardless I will love you.
secondchance
Kib, meanwhile, writes intensely oblique notes to self, and since he's waiting on others to petition the Valar he works on his scribe.
The Valar agree to two gates. Filtered so that anyone can only come through from the human side accompanied, on their first visit; after that they can return at will, and the system can be adjusted to close travel into Valinor temporarily.
Kib's ring of grace is finished.
Findekáno's cousin Artanis would like to talk to Kib.
Kib's ring of grace is finished.
Findekáno's cousin Artanis would like to talk to Kib.