At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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Yeah, write it up, one of our other roommates got some Elf languages and he can translate it probably.

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She does that. 

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The fairy pockets it.

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Thank you.

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You're welcome.

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You okay?

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I can put up with being crippled or I wouldn't have volunteered to courier but I still don't like it.

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I can imagine. Being a fairy sounds really lovely. We'll get it fixed as fast as we can.

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In like a month?

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We're trying for faster, but - that's pretty fast, as far as people here go. 

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...it's weird that you can hold a normal conversation if you're like that.

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That's not really how it works. We talk and work as quickly as humans, it's just that - making decisions in a month is regarded maybe the way humans would feel about being obliged to make them within five minutes? Even if it's not a very hard decision it's stressful if someone marches in and says 'you have five minutes to fix this' because you're just in the habit of - maybe asking other people for advice, maybe looking up relevant precedent, maybe trying to come up with in this case a way of restructuring the magic so we're safe here but fairies are fine when they go home, maybe you were asleep and they've woken you up in the middle of the night...

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Okay, so like, maybe a couple days? Not a month.

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Well, the people whose help you'd need for magic restructuring aren't all on-call to get there immediately - we are finding them and telling them to get to Taniquetil as fast as they possibly can but that's a deeply unusual thing to do, ordinarily you should not assume that you can get anyone anywhere to drop everything to do work for you within a couple of weeks. And we know absolutely nothing about you or the other new alien societies and would like to learn enough about them to guess if an angry fairy is likely to attempt to murder us all and what that'd look like and how we could protect ourselves. And as it stands the only people who will get any input will be the ones who happen to be standing around Taniquetil when we get there with the petition because we're in too much of a rush to let the public comment, or even be informed about what's going on.

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I mean, I can tell you common knowledge type stuff about angels and demons, I don't know that much about them. And I live in Fairyland.

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I'd appreciate that. But the point is more - we are rushing as much as we can in this instance but we are not as a society set up for making decisions quickly, and we fuck them up when we do, which is another reason we shouldn't have visitors from other places who expect good decisions made quickly.

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Then why did Shipka get told, like, twice over the course of a minute in confusing phrasing to stop moving? Shouldn't the monster have taken a few hours to go through phrasings like 'could you land' or 'why is it you don't want to stop using magic' or whatever?

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Yes, she should have. Varda panicked.

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Shipka didn't hurt anybody. She didn't even do anything scary, the one she took for a ride was having fun.

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I know. We're getting it fixed.

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Thanks.

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Thanks for coming to tell us.

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You're welcome.

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On Earth the announcement that there's a hidden continent with fairy-hating monsters has invited quite a lot of attention and fearmongering and doomsaying and hoarding of canned food and guns.

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"So I could just put a video on Youtube, but I have no idea what causes people to watch Youtube videos."

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