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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
"We should probably have everyone swear never to give their word under duress," Fëanáro says, "just to be safe -"
"If I were evil I'd erase the memory of swearing that, get another minor oath from them, and let it torture them forever," Maitimo says curtly. " I have been thinking a lot about this and don't see an obvious safe way."
"If I were evil I'd erase the memory of swearing that, get another minor oath from them, and let it torture them forever," Maitimo says curtly. " I have been thinking a lot about this and don't see an obvious safe way."
secondchance
"Oh hell I didn't even think of memory alteration as an avenue there, is that a thing."
"Mandos can do it," Maitimo says. "He's a possible candidate for whoever we end up in a fight with."
"I haven't exactly been sleeping well."
"Okay," says Fëanáro, "so next priority after immortality is some kind of immunity to mind-affecting Valar, is that a reasonable summary of your aim here?"
"Okay," says Fëanáro, "so next priority after immortality is some kind of immunity to mind-affecting Valar, is that a reasonable summary of your aim here?"
"I can't broadly 'avoid doing an unknown bad thing', I can avoid being forced into one. If you don't think Maitimo, not forced into it, will orchestrate any murders, then that should be sufficient."
secondchance
"If you come into possession of shiny rocks called Silmarils I want to know what their deal is and I advise you not to set anything on fire without accounting for Telufinwë first in around fifty Years. I wish I could be more specific."
"I will absolutely not set anything on fire without him at my side. What do you know about the shiny rocks?"
secondchance
"They're shiny? There's three? You acquire them at some point and wear them in a crown and it's very fetching and then when everything is dark for unclear reasons they could be used to restore light to the world and you don't turn them over for the purpose. They were a recurring theme in the subsequent unpleasant warfare."
"Oh," he says. "Should I not invent them, then? They are one possible avenue to make humans immortal - the brute force approach I mentioned the last time we discussed it."
secondchance
Blink. "Uh, I suppose that might help, if you have an alternative. Presumably you originally had other reasons to make them besides immortalizing humans?"
"They would also allow Elves to live indefinitely outside Valinor, which we currently can't do. I have alternatives for human immortality but no alternative to that."
secondchance
"I'm not sure how anybody's going to live anywhere short of evacuating to my world while the world is all dark if they - hm, no, one of the later visions was in what looked like daylight, but I don't know how that was accomplished -"
"I want to make the Silmarils," he says. "I don't want to be dependent forever on the Valar and tied forever to Valinor. I can be very careful they don't have mind-altering side effects but if all the fighting over them was a consequence of them being extremely powerful and extremely valuable, it doesn't seem wise to fix that by not making powerful and valuable things.
I could make them impossible for anyone to wield or benefit from without my leave."
I could make them impossible for anyone to wield or benefit from without my leave."
secondchance
"That might work. Don't know enough to say for sure. The visions didn't show anyone using them as anything other than shiny rocks."
secondchance
"Might work, don't know. If I could give you a complete prescription for how to steer around all the everything I would definitely have brought it all neatly indexed," Kib sighs.
"It seemed likely you'd be able to piece together more than us from what we do know, though," Maitimo says, "and I had not even anticipated that you might know enough about your future projects to guess their role in things."
"It's in the very early stages of consideration," Fëanáro says. "Is it possible you killed all those people to get it back because it was needed to save many many more people?"
"I am really good at solving problems like that without swords, and don't seem to have been particularly effectual with them," he says. "I cannot imagine I'd try that."
"It's in the very early stages of consideration," Fëanáro says. "Is it possible you killed all those people to get it back because it was needed to save many many more people?"
"I am really good at solving problems like that without swords, and don't seem to have been particularly effectual with them," he says. "I cannot imagine I'd try that."
secondchance
"Silmarils don't explain what happened to you before that, either," Kib says to Maitimo.
"That may not be something we can avert," he says. "If no one can see it. Better to figure out how to come out of it not a mass murderer."