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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
I think that's the fastest the delightful House of Curufinwë Fëanáro has managed to scare someone off. Record breaking. Not that you owe it to us to stay.
secondchance
It's... Hm. I'm not particularly scared. Just might fit in better where I came from.
Calling them idiots is a national pastime, I'm going to do it no matter how diplomatic you are. We have very good hearing. Maitimo was an ass to you at a dance and then you decided to vanish into the basement and find somewhere where you fit in better. I'm definitely putting this one on their scoresheet.
secondchance
I got the impression it was some kind of cultural misstep. On, of course, my end, as I'm a minority of one here. There are probably more delicate ways to tell someone they're repulsive and ought to die alone but, you know, what's important is that the sentiment was unambiguously communicated.
He buries his head in his hands.
Fëanáro must have told you about the Valar and his mother, he tells everyone that story.
Fëanáro must have told you about the Valar and his mother, he tells everyone that story.
They get like that. About things that shouldn't be any of their business. We came here from Cuivienen after the war and they said 'no, no, you're not married, don't you know what a marriage is?; They can fix people, too, if people want that, but mostly we're still here, just quietly because it's not allowed and the Valar are very very powerful and someday we will be able to change things but not yet - and it's not as if we mind waiting, most of the time -
I would not blame you if you go home. You will not be able to announce a marriage to a man in King's Square with your friends waving and giving you presents. If you have a house together occasionally people will raise eyebrows and if you kiss in public people will be horrified. Those are more than sufficient reasons to decide it's not worth it to you to stay here.
But you're not a minority of one and you are not repulsive and you wouldn't die alone. Or at all, probably, we are going to figure out how to fix that.
I would not blame you if you go home. You will not be able to announce a marriage to a man in King's Square with your friends waving and giving you presents. If you have a house together occasionally people will raise eyebrows and if you kiss in public people will be horrified. Those are more than sufficient reasons to decide it's not worth it to you to stay here.
But you're not a minority of one and you are not repulsive and you wouldn't die alone. Or at all, probably, we are going to figure out how to fix that.
Change attraction so it follows the rules. I haven't asked them for help and would not want it, though if I die I might not get a choice.
secondchance
That is a much better reason to go home than the whole "weird cultural hangup" thing, that's horrifying.
Some people would rather be able to get married and have a family.
secondchance
If they care that much about reproducing, sure, might as well make the leadup more appealing. If you die you might not get a choice?
That part I'll grant you. Seems less horrifying than ceasing to exist entirely when you die, but it does make me nervous.
secondchance
Nobody's going around causing it to be the case that I'd cease to exist if I died.
Right, so we have it better, it's obvious precisely how we need to change things.
I'm really not trying to talk you out of going home. When I realized that your world doesn't have families, that they just wouldn't care at all, I was tempted, and I have obligations and commitments and a whole life here. I just. If the message communicated so clearly was that there's something wrong with you, there isn't. There's something wrong with our gods and it's going to be hard to fix.
I'm really not trying to talk you out of going home. When I realized that your world doesn't have families, that they just wouldn't care at all, I was tempted, and I have obligations and commitments and a whole life here. I just. If the message communicated so clearly was that there's something wrong with you, there isn't. There's something wrong with our gods and it's going to be hard to fix.
secondchance
I didn't take it as a blow to my ego, I have more than enough ego to contradict deities, it was just a statement about how pleasant things can be here.
This is maybe slightly less Maitimo's fault than I was inclined to make it out to be. Except that he's politically powerful enough he could at least - do something with it - nah, actually, still his fault.
He will be very upset to hear you're leaving.
He will be very upset to hear you're leaving.
Yes, really!! He thinks very highly of you! If I were you I'd just corner him and demand an apology, he'd probably manage a suitably graceful one, but I trust you had reasons for not doing that.
secondchance
I figured if he wanted to apologize he'd do it and if he didn't I had no interest in a coerced one!
And he figured that you were avoiding him because you preferred not to interact with him and wouldn't appreciate being chased down.
secondchance
Well, aren't we a bunch of really mature sorts. Sigh. Although I find it kind of hard to believe that he thinks very highly of me considering. Like - you guys are telepathic, he could have steered me away from making socially unacceptable remarks privately maybe?
Among the many things he owes you an apology for.
The concert starts. It's very pretty.