At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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Sigh. When somebody summons a daeva they can add bits to the circle to make sure we aren't dangerous, if they don't trust us. She had one and couldn't have hurt anybody even if she'd wanted to, which she didn't. If the Valar don't want everybody in Fairyland calling them monsters they should be more careful about crippling harmless peaceful visitors and then leaving them that way.

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I'm sure they will be more careful! I don't actually know that they'd care what everyone in Fairyland says, I just find it upsetting. Here 'monsters' is reserved for 'spent thousands of years horrifically torturing everyone they could reach', not 'hurt someone by suppressing their magic in a panic', so if you say the Valar are monsters people are just going to think you mean something different than what you actually mean.

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Separately a lot of people have issues with how they're trapping you all here but I'm starting to think you like it that way.

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Yes, we used to go to the other worlds and it caused horrible suffering for everyone involved and then we tried intervening remotely and that did too and so now we just like to be left alone.

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He sighs. He picks triceratops out of his hair.

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Elves ride out to meet him! They have snacks and a change of clothes.

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He changes into the clothes. He has a snack.

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They are curious about fairies! What are fairies like, what do they do, what kind of stories do they tell, what are their cities like...

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I'd love to tell you all about fairies but I thought everyone was agreed that I shouldn't even be here? he remarks.

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...everyone never agrees on anything. The temporary decision while they debate more permanent things was that fairies shouldn't be here but that was mostly because the last one was really upset and we weren't sure how to not upset additional ones. And also we were worried someone would come who did want to hurt people.

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They need to figure out a different way of keeping us out, I sure wasn't trying to come in, just send letters. The last one, as she explained at the time, was upset because she could not get up. She didn't know how to walk. Or move in general.

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And as of right now I don't think anyone has a solution for that besides 'give you the power to rip the continent in half' and we are not sure if we would prefer to have neighbors who can do that. I don't think they knew about the bindings thing, maybe that will be an acceptable solution.

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Might be more convincing if she weren't still crippled when she got home.

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Um, okay?

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Look, I have nothing against you personally but nothing about what the monster did to her was reasonable.

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This is why we try so hard to get people to leave us alone.

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You're protecting us from the monsters? Very noble of you.

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...no? Whenever there's contact with other societies they end up very angry and unhappy and usually violent as a result. And the only real way to fix it is to avoid them.

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Well, the fairy population is angry and unhappy because a monster hurt Shipka, yep. We decided to send you letters about it. I want her whole again.

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Yes, you said. I don't think that'll be a problem at all, as long as she leaves us alone.

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I don't think she'll take another summon for a hundred years.

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The Elves nod like this is very reasonable. Back they go towards their city. It's very pretty.

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Is he supposed to follow them?

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Uh, I assume you'd rather be in a city while everything gets straightened out? You aren't obliged...

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I guess it's better than waiting for the triceratopses to come back. He follows.

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