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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
So I didn't. And he did want me. He did not, if you're wondering, tell me that I had to dump my boyfriend.
secondchance
Aydanci will not be served by my trying to compromise what I want for his obsolete abstract interests, his priorities as they stand now have 'is my spouse alive and happy' in the first forty slots. If Maitimo doesn't like sharing he is free to dump me, I won't make a fuss or publicly mope or anything.
He shakes his head.
Alright. I have heard about your marriage from lots and lots of people so if that was your aim you're doing well at it.
Alright. I have heard about your marriage from lots and lots of people so if that was your aim you're doing well at it.
secondchance
I suspect I will now be able to be in public locations with Maitimo without anybody suspecting we're an item on the grounds that clearly if we were I would not be able to shut up about it and also have I mentioned I am married today, etcetera.
He nods. Reluctantly, but approvingly. That's probably a good idea. At least while people are still dying in your world and openly telling the Valar to fuck off is unwise.
Maitimo, are you happy?
I tend to balance my preference to keep people for myself against my preference they be happy and doing complicated things and therefore as interesting as they were when I decided to acquire them. And the latter seems to always win. I am very happy.
I tend to balance my preference to keep people for myself against my preference they be happy and doing complicated things and therefore as interesting as they were when I decided to acquire them. And the latter seems to always win. I am very happy.
Feanáro nods again. Fine. Do you want more experimental updates, Kib? It seemed like you were very busy with your husband.
And they can stay for dinner, if they like, and he'll explain what he's been doing and how he's going to make the Silmarils less tempting targets.
"One option is to just tell everyone they're spectacularly pretty and that's all they do. I do not think anyone else will independently notice anything else."
"It's possible no one knew about the other properties," Maitimo says. "Pretty is sufficiently motivating."
"It's possible no one knew about the other properties," Maitimo says. "Pretty is sufficiently motivating."
secondchance
"And the Valar already know they can restore light to the world if I don't manage to head off whatever happens to the Trees."
"People descended from me. In magic it's a natural category, easier to do than 'people I approve' and harder to coerce and impossible to be interpreted as political."