Boots in Osirion
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His mental signature is almost precisely Fëanáro's, it's not exact but -

Well. She drops into the kneel everyone else was doing.

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"Come sit down and teach me your language. I'll pay you. You mustn't mind them, they're all rattle and no bite really."

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She gets up and sits down wherever it seems like she's supposed to sit. I speak two.

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"Then speak in them!"

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"Sorry! Sorry, I just - I don't know which one you want first," she blurts in Pax, sending along a translation. "You were asking about the name and that's in Quenya and this is Pax."

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"Which one you want first. I know which one I want first?"

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"That's grammatical, yes," she murmurs.

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"I want first Pax? I want Pax first? This is Pax, you were asking in Pax which one I want first."

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"'I want Pax first' is right, 'first Pax' wouldn't - wouldn't be." She swallows.

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"First Pax wouldn't be grammatical," he says triumphantly. "I want Pax first and Quenya - Quenya which?"

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"Second."

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"Pax first! And Quenya second! Yes. - first, second..." He holds up three fingers.

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"Third," she says, and she bursts into tears.

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He looks startled. 

 

He rocks back and forth for a second and then goes to the door and calls in a servant girl who has fancy handkerchiefs and ice water and truffles.

- it's all right. I'm not angry - you can't mess this up, really -

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It's not that, she says, gulping water between sobs.

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He waits. Not very patiently but he is in fact waiting.

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She pulls herself together. "Sorry."

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"I'll tell them off. They shouldn't go around terrorizing people."

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"It's not that."

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" - fine, then, what?"

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"You just keep reminding me of the person you - psychically resemble - and I'm worried about him -"

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"Psychically resemble?"

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"I can distinguish people by how they telepathically feel, it's sort of like recognizing faces usually except it'll work through walls. You don't look like Fëanáro, he's a child and not a human and so on, but for some reason you read like him - I'm not reading your mind, I don't do that except to pick up on what people are trying to say to me and for my job when people want me to -"

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"Huh. And he's in danger?"

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"Longish-term I think so yeah."

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