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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
secondchance
It's really hard for me to turn off my tendency to be flippant and what I'm left with when I manage it is often bland terseness, basically. I did not tell you about this so you would be very unhappy for a thousand years, that is not a satisfactory result, I did not show up all undestined just to derail fate so pathetically.
How many people do you think I killed?
No. Everyone who died on both sides in any of those fights...
secondchance
...maybe a hundred thousand. So, you know. Don't pick up a sword. Don't do anything dramatic like quitting either until I've had time to run around kicking things, okay, give me a bit!
Time we have. But I am not doing anything much riskier than moving to Valimar, unless you get a lot more information.
I can ask the Valar for things, Findekáno says, or my cousins on the non-Feanorian side of the family if we want to bring them in.
secondchance
Your expertise, he says, whatever seems likeliest to get me turned into a prophecy repository.
I'll think about it. We might want to wait until they've approved the gate, assuming that once everyone gets all of the pieces of the story they're going to stop trusting Maitimo...
secondchance
I wasn't planning on spreading that around without some particularly compelling reason to do so.
You think you're going to be able to persuade everyone to tell you the whole of Arda's fate without themselves learning anything about it?
secondchance
There are degrees. I imagine at least some people would be motivated to share some future just on the grounds that they can't tell anybody who'd affect it and I can.
Especially people whose glimpses are ugly, maybe. Okay.
I want to see it, Maitimo says, see who else I recognize.
I want to see it, Maitimo says, see who else I recognize.
I haven't ever seen anyone die and I am sure that I will be sad about it. There might be information I'd notice that you haven't.
Thank you.
secondchance
You're welcome. ...This meeting should possibly have been arranged under circumstances such that I could hug you.
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.
Oh, good. Second.
I would not have avenged that, that doesn't make any sense.
I would not have avenged that, that doesn't make any sense.
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.