tiny maitimo and tiny ves try to solve some problems that are objectively above their pay grade
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She walks through Wolfram and Hart; sometimes she makes the floor crumble so she can descend to the next floor. Everywhere she goes, blood that has been scrubbed out of the walls returns. Otherwise she does not disturb anything. Anything that tries to come within thirty meters of her which is not taking her up on the offer to leave finds the air growing intolerably cold. 

 

There's a basement block full of prisoners. Eventually she reaches it.

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There are a lot of prisoners here, all of them unable to move or speak or starve or die, being held in cells the size of coffins. They are very powerful; anything easier to contain has been shipped out. Most of them are evil. They would like to leave.

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She gathers them up one by one, singing.

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They'll stay with her until they are clear of Wolfram & Hart, then.

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When they are done at Wolfram and Hart she stops. Stands still. 

 

And takes them all somewhere else. It's not Valinor.

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Karen doesn't actually know what Valinor looks like or how she would recognize Valinor if she were there. She's going to peek out and see where they are.

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Maitimo would probably have mentioned if Valinor was mostly full of choking acidic smoke and the screams of the damned, and also plausibly he would have had a different personality.

 

Nienna doesn't seem to be wandering, here, she seems to be looking for certain people in particular. She still cries and sings and calls out for everyone to come to her.

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Lots of people come to her, here. They run or walk or crawl or sit in place and reach, although many of them also cover their faces in their hands and cower. The demons that rule over them try to attack the deserters with whips or clubs, for a moment, before they find themselves frozen in place.

 

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She will pick them up one at a time and wrap them in her shawl and wrap her arms around them and keep walking.

 

As far as Maitimo and Karen can tell it does not take very long at all.

 

When she has found all of the Elves who died in Wolfram and Hart they leave, again.

 

They land somewhere soft, this time, and quiet. Nienna sits on the ground weeping.

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Is this it? she asks Maitimo.

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He peeks his head out. 

 

They're in a tropical forest, though it's not quite warm or humid enough for a tropical forest. Nienna is sitting on some lush, green leaves. She's holding one of them in each arm, now. There's a bubbling brook off to one side. 

The light that's shining in through the treetops is silver.

He tumbles out of Nienna's arms and onto the ground and breaks off a shiny green leaf and takes a bite of it. 

 

We're in Lórien!

He looks uncertainly back at Nienna.

We still need to get Zana and Connor but maybe we should ask Aulë about that later. 

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She walks away from Nienna and looks around.

Plausibly she should be thinking more about Zana and Connor, but honestly at the moment she is mostly processing the fact that this is probably better than being shot full of holes by Wolfram & Hart security.

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He picks a much larger leaf and starts eating it. 

 

He looks blissfully happy. He is kind of shaking a bit but still.

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Oh good. Maybe she managed to actually do something right for once in her entire life. She really doesn't want to interrupt him or interrupt whatever Nienna is doing right now, so she'll just kind of... stand here.

She turns back to see if any of the hell people are around or if they've all been pushed into pocket cloak dimensions or what.

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No one else is apparent.

 

I AM NOT SHORT OF ATTENTION SUCH THAT YOU COULD INTERRUPT IT.

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Eep.

"That's fine," she says, weakly. "I'm good."

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"I want to go home."

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"...Is it OK if we go to Maitimo's home?"

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OF COURSE.

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Well.

"Do you know where it is, Maitimo? I guess we could hike out and look for the tallest mountain, or wherever - "

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"Lórien can be lots of places but I bet it's not very far from Tirion right now." He stuffs what remains of the leaf into his pocket, looks around, picks a direction apparently at random. 

 

"You are still sad."

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"Well. I'm - not really very sure what's happening." And kind of not looking forward to meeting his parents because she's been a pretty shoddy babysitter, but maybe she'll get points for not literally getting their child killed. If she's lucky.

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"We got Nienna and then she brought us home." 

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"Well. Yeah. I - think I'm going to be approximately as confused as you have been for the next little bit, but that's - sort of normal when you're in a place that's very different from any place you've ever been before."

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He gets to the brook and wades right through it and comes out dry on the other side. "Nienna cries a lot. She's the Vala of grief and mercy. I haven't met her before. She doesn't go places where people are happy and I haven't ever really been sad."

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