At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"So if they wanna visit, all theirs."

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"Cool." He emails them to say so.

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They want to visit!

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Up to them if they want to do so separately or together.

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Arranging times is hard; they end up picking separate dates.

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And Cam will be ready to meet whichever arrives first.

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Claire! "Hey!"

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"Hi! Welcome chez the house of Fëanor. That being Elvis's dad."

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"It's - wow. Did they have a demon put it up -"

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"They did not! They built it seven hundred years ago by hand."

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" ...wow."

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"Elves." He holds the door for her.

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Matt and Macalaurë are playing chess; Connor is watching them and eating a pizza from the crust inwards. Matt stands up. "Claire, I take it?"

             "- yeah. Hi. Uh. Wow. You guys go all in on the architecture -"

"I'll tell Moryo you liked it! He designed it and harassed the rest of us into doing our part of the construction. It was the first building on this continent to have indoor plumbing! I suppose these days people don't find that very groundbreaking."

            "Not really. This was in, like, 1300?"

"I will confess we paid human calenders not the vaguest bit of attention, and even if we had they wouldn't have been counting from Christ-related milestones, but around then, yes."

            "- how do you not rule the world by now?"

"Elves are, as a rule, either reluctant to wield power or already infamous for having erred in the wielding."

           "And you are?"

"The latter."

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Cam peers at the chessboard.

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Unless he's very good at chess it wouldn't be immediately apparent who has the stronger position. 

      "You're Elvis," says Claire.

"I performed under that name for a little while, yes."

      "And you two are brothers?"

"This is our family castle. It's the seven of us and our father."

      "And Cam."

"He gravitates towards magic and leverage, you see, and we are possessed with both."

      "I don't know what I imagined Elves would be like but you have the combining-normal-stuff-with-fortune-cookie-level-vague-ominousness thing down pat."

"Thank you!"

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"They can be convinced to get less vague, it just takes a little doing."

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"Should I be apprised of specific ominousness?"

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"It takes a couple hours to get much detail on the whole - arc."

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"Then I think I'll just trust your judgment. Elves with a vaguely ominous arc and a super pretty castle in the middle of nowhere, great. - uh, it is nice to meet you, don't get me wrong -"

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"We didn't," he says, moving a chess piece. 

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"Are you their brother too?" she asks Connor. "Do Elves not inherit hair color -"

      "Oh, I dye it."

"- that's a really excellent dye job, do you have some Elf remedy for it I can recommend my friend who's a stylist -"

      " - so that was an oversimplification. I used my direct control over my body to change the behavior of my hair follicles so that I would be blonde, I did not wash chemicals into the hair."

" - okay."

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"Elves: they have a lot of cool biology perks."

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"Yeah, I know someone who's looking to have kids and who asked a demon for an Elf for that reason."

       

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