At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Hello. Uh, my name is Cam and I have a really weird question."

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"These are weird times."

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"Yes." He hands her the Athrabeth. "Do you recognize this?"

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Blink.

 

 

"- I - might. Where'd you get this?"

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"It was recommended to me by an Elf. I made it. I'm a demon."

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" - well. 

 

 

 

 

Which Elf -"

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"He's going by Matt lately. One of the Fëanorians."

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"And recommending demons my writings?"

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"Yes. And then I idly wished Limbo had had a chance to get people from that long ago and it cost nothing to check and for some reason you appear to be living in New York City."

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"So I am. - I don't know the why either. It's - my whole family but if it's anybody else we haven't found them -"

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"Your whole family out to how far?"

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"My parents - probably their parents, though they never said anything - people vary a great deal in how much they notice it, it's mostly - vague intuitions you can write off as nonsense if you're aware of how confirmation bias works, a slight presumed-genetic tendency towards psychotic breaks - and then one day the news said there were Elves and everyone knew that of course there were Elves -"

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"...you're welcome?" he says uncertainly.

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"That was you?"

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"Indirectly."

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"Well, it was nice to know we weren't crazy. But, ah, they aren't our Elves - Beren checked for his girl - so we didn't - the Fëanorians had a formidable reputation, back then, tracking them down and bothering them seemed very likely to end badly -"

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"I like them but I acknowledge they are not universally popular for good reasons. ...Did Beren check demonically or -"

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"Yes. You can try again if you think you might have ideas the other demon didn't, he was devastated, but as I understand it they were thorough. Everyone else found their spouses by apparent coincidence - went to the same college, things like that - before Revelation."

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"That is weird. I will do my best - Elves don't work naively, Maiar extra don't -" Checking checking come out Lúthien wherever you're hiding -

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Nothing for Lúthien-in-conjurable-substrate, nothing for her surroundings.

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"- nothing, sorry."

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"It's all right. There's - clearly some plan at work, and it doesn't look finished, so -"

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"Oh yeah, everything has shenanigans written all over it, maybe she enters stage right in six months, I don't know. Can't find her now."

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Nod. "I can ask people if they'd like to be introduced, they, ah, might not. Particularly not by Fëanorians. But we're all here - we all remember the old languages -"

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"Elladan is also around, I don't remember if you were contemporaries, I'd have to look it up -"

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