At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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He drinks. He looks around. He sits down next to his brother and leans into him; Caranthir leans back. "Tyelcormo. Uh, or Connor, these days."

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"Which do you prefer?"

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"I think all of us but Matthew prefer our real names. Possibly not Aricin but that's because he picks such self-indulgent aliases..."

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"What's self-indulgent about it?"

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"It's - I forget what language -"

"Swedish," Caranthir interjects absently -

"- yeah - for 'son of the King'. The succession was, uh, disputed. He is making a political point thirty-two thousand years out of date."

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"Pfft."

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"We were supposed to have unremarkable names. Matthew glared at him but not very much."

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"Matthew's birth name is a political point about the succession."

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"This is true. - did you get everybody's names when you got languages from Matthew or does it not work that way."

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"I don't even have an identical vocabulary, let alone names."

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"That makes sense, it'd probably be really weird to suddenly have three hundred thousand names -"

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"Three hundred thousand?"

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"Yeah, it's Matthew, he knows everyone he's every spoken to and he spent three thousand years running countries."

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"D'you guys also have much better than human memories?"

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"Not, like, 'will retain more of a book we just read', I don't think - we used to but humans used to be malnourished and shit - but we remember our lives fine no matter how long they are."

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"Including an avalanche of names, okay."

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"That's just Matthew."

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"I shall take your word for it."

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Another car, another Elf. Caranthir puts his laptop away. "All right, let's go."

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"Not waiting for the whole family? Okay." He makes most of a random angel circle. "Who wants to do the honors, and do you know how to do negotiations or should I?"

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"Matthew's got work and Curvo's got class and the twins are, like, transparent, and my father will derail everything for three weeks while he learns every language spoken in Heaven. We read up on how to do this properly but if your experience has been that even most people who think they can do it properly don't then I'll defer to that."

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"I had to flunk some people," Cam says. "Plus if you have the luxury it can be safer to have a nonsummoner do the talking so there isn't accidental agreement anyway." He lays out the circle.

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He finishes it.

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Angel! "Hi," she says, rustling green feathers, "what can I do for you?"

"Dig up buried treasure!" says Cam. "Under that flag a really excessive ways down is a shiny. While you're down we can get a demon to make whatever you want, give us a list?"

"You're sure of your demon?"

"Oh yeah, we have an arrangement."

"Uh, okay, complete discography of Freddie Mercury and a lotta little potted succulents with care tabs in the pots for resale?"

"Sounds good to me..." He nods at Caranthir.

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"Deal. Thank you."

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