At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"See you."

And Cam tells his parents he's going on a road trip, call him if they need anything or just want to confirm he is still okay, and he hops on a motorcycle and heads over. His wings are already off; he doesn't attract attention.

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In Boston it's icy and he gets skeptical stares for being helmetless on his motorcycle.

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Helmetless? Who, him?

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Never mind! 

 

Aricin's address is a dorm on the MIT campus.

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Cam parks outside of it and calls.

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Goes to voicemail.

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"Hey, I'm here but it's freezing out, I'm going to find the library and wait there."

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The library is findable; you have to have a student pass to get in.

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Like this one?

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Yep! 

 

 

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A little while later an astonishingly pretty person walks in, glances around, heads towards Cam.

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Cam waves.

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"Hi," he says. "We're not supposed to speak in here, want to go for a walk?"

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"Sure."

Cam follows him out, slips on ice, sighs and gets up again, finds his path mysteriously salted.

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He's very graceful. "So. Questions?"

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"Why does your brother speak languages where every word has a spelling and there are no conjurable written works or only a handful? Why doesn't anybody know about the civilization that spoke Thindarin, since it has loads of conjurable written works? Why can't I make even a basement dweller of him? How did your dad write posthumously for hundreds of years without being in Limbo or any daeva realm? What, in general, the fuck?"

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"At a guess, most of the written works count as magic for some reason, Eru, magic, resurrected, and good question."

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"Eru?"

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"- there're gods. Or, at least, there used to be, I don't know what they're up to these days and this -" gesture at Cam - "isn't their style. One comes to recognize it. Eru is the god who destroyed the civilization with Thindarin works - had the whole continent swallowed by the sea, moved the continents, cut Valinor off - and I don't know why nobody knows - especially not in Hell - but he's omnipotent or was so the likeliest explanation is that he wanted them forgotten, it suited the narrative he was going for."

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"And the fossil record and whatnot?"

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"Dinosaurs are more recent than that - well, in Valinor. Maybe in Endorë they really did die out sixty five million years ago. There was a war among the gods that lasted two billion, a meteor to mess up someone's delightfully vibrant ecosystem wouldn't be inexplicable."

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"...okay. How's resurrection work?"

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"When we die our god can collect our souls and give us new bodies for them. They only do that if they approve of us; it took my father thirty thousand years to get reembodied, and being disembodied is deeply unpleasant, so it sounds like humans have it better."

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"Who's we?"

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"We call ourselves the Quendi. I think 'Elves' caught on in the vernacular."

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