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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
Yeah, I mean, we're not letting kids die because it'd be an awful lot of work for that to never ever happen. Huh. Okay. Someone should ride out and get the Valar.
I'll go. If you haven't sent someone already.
Go for it, the prince Nelyafinwë says, and his brother tosses his hair and waves and races off at a run.
He can probably make it in a week.
He can probably make it in a week.
Oh, will that not be done today?
So we can tell him the result when you're done.
It is how I was ordering music copied and guest rooms made available and telling him to meet us at the gates in the first place. It's very useful.
I think I am mostly only hearing things you are directing at me. If you want I can learn the language and then you can just ask people not to listen to you.
secondchance
Are languages really easy for your species or something, you make that sound really trivial.
We're the Noldor, linguistics is something of a national hobby and/or art form. I would enjoy learning your language and will need it eventually if I want to help fix everything awful in your world.
secondchance
All right. I've never taught a language before. Where do you want to start?
The bird sits, the bird flies? The Elves wake? The human is confused? The confused human is awake? Enough to get your syntax, and then you can explain how verbs change and then we can do vocabulary.
secondchance
"The bird sits, the bird flies, the human is confused, the confused human is awake," Kib recites. "Hey bird, go fly a lap around that building and come back."
The bird goes and flies a lap around that building and comes back.
The bird goes and flies a lap around that building and comes back.
I don't think Tyelcormo could do that. The bird flies around the building? The bird flies near the wall? The bird flies too fast?
secondchance
"The bird flies around the building, the bird flies near the wall, the bird flies too fast. Sit on my shoulder," he adds to the bird, and the bird hops up.
And they definitely don't take orders from him in spoken language. "The confused bird flies around the building? The bird sit on my shoulder? The bird flies near the shoulder?"
secondchance
"The confused bird flies around the building, yes, but, the bird sits on my shoulder, the bird flies to my shoulder."
"The bird sits on my shoulder, the bird sits on Kib shoulder, the bird sit on Tyelcormo shoulder..."
"Sits on Maitimo's shoulder, sits on building's shoulder?"