At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Can't find them or read their letters?"

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"Right."

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"So there's Heaven and Hell and God but God's got nothing to do with either and is kind of horrible?"

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"Well, that last isn't a surprise. And it's not impossible that he set up Heaven and Hell - and Fairyland - but the Elves don't seem to think it's his style."

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"Because they don't suck?"

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"And insofar as they have sucky elements they have them in the wrong way."

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"Weird times we're living in."

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"No kidding. Metaphysics by way of psychoanalyzing evil gods."

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And they talk a while longer and eventually she has to get home.

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"D'you want me to pay your fairy?"

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"If it's no trouble - which I suppose it isn't -"

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"Unless your fairy wants something that needs research to specify, it is no trouble at all."

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The fairy does not want that, he wants a couple of albums.

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Easily done.

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"Thanks!" Off they go.

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And Cam goes back to the castle.

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Elves are singing and watching the news and composing a letter to their sort-of grandson.

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Anything interesting on the news?

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The U.S. government killed forty people in Pakistan in a drone strike, claiming one of them was a terrorist who had just summoned an unbound demon; local authorities are claiming he was not a terrorist and the demon was his brother-in-law. Denmark's high court just ruled inmates have the right to summon; no one has used this to fly away from jail yet but it is presumed to be only a matter of time. Google has English-Thindarin translation up -

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" - it's appallingly bad, I've been thinking about calling them -"

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"Bad like machine translation is bad in general or -?"

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"Yes, just like that, but that's more than enough to be very annoying when it's peoples' only source of exposure to the language -"

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"You could publish a tutorial."

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"Someone had better."

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"I wouldn't know how to construct a tutorial and I'm given to understand I have a nonstandard dialect."

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