At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"They don't die, they just mostly go to a depressingly boring place where they can't receive guests or be summoned out. Not as bad as yours, but still."

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"There might be better ways to help 'em than making them not go there, though - like, I should in principle be able to create matter and if the songs work in Limbo..."

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"Then yeah, demons could send them recordings, if magic songs work normally there - it was fading from here to the point where nobody noticed -"

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"Yeah. ...might work only if we smuggled a Silmaril into Limbo, there'd be a lovely dilemma -"

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"You would have a hard time getting it back, yes."

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"We couldn't kill anyone to get it back, though, so that'd be fine, the question is whether having all three of them together lets Father do more -"

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"You can't think of ways to kill people to get something out of Limbo? I can."

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"We're not obliged to take all courses of action that get them back, we're obliged to kill the people who are withholding them."

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"Who worded this thing."

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"My father in a paranoid manic fit while trying to collect enough pieces of his father to bury him. Was the wording not in the books - I assume you looked us up -"

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"Yes, but I'm skimming."

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"What vague misconduct are people too delicate to mention in the same book as child-murder?"

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He blinks. 

 

Then he snorts.

"Oh, homosexuality. Elves are really sticklers about that."

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"Seriously? Okay.

...also, uh, were the kids withholding a Silmaril, or..."

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" - which ones -"

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Cam finds the reference.

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"There was hand-to-hand fighting in the cave system, it was a nightmare, the Silmaril was in fact with their three-year-old daughter but we didn't know that, some of our soldiers found the twins and dragged them outside where they'd be away from the fighting and they ran off into the woods. In the middle of winter. We looked for months. They're presumed to have frozen - I guess you could do better than 'presumed'-"

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Tiny chilly kids?

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"Yup."

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Sigh. "I would feel better about this entire thing if you weren't all still under the influence of I Swear Never To Lose At Chicken."

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"Trust me, we would too. You can at least just kill us if it comes up again."

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"I've never killed anybody! I don't really want to! I would like to manage to never have a compelling reason for it!"

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