"Cool."

Art of Sauron being gone.

Art art art.

During breaks he sings and climbs trees and roams around and over a few weeks builds himself a stunningly pretty elaborate tree platform to sleep in. He ties himself into it to sleep.

"Would you fall off if you just slept on it? It doesn't look that narrow."

"...no, I wouldn't."

"...should I not ask?"

"I, uh, haven't slept unrestrained in four hundred years, turns out you get accustomed."

"Ah."

"It doesn't really feel like one of the most urgent parts to - unaccustom."

"...what are the most urgent?"

"I feel safest around him, anywhere else there's a nagging sense that maybe things'll be out of control by the time I see him next. It still feels really important for him to be happy. I - ended up not deciding to deoath him right now because if deoathing him actually fixes him I'd end up back with him and I don't want to and you'd think there's an obvious later point at which I could avoid that but -"

"If it fixes him won't he have the decency to back off?"

"If it fixes him he will be so horrified and miserable that I'm not sure he'd be able to do his job and then I'd step in and then - we were together for a thousand years before everything started, without a single sign - I really did love him -"

Nod.

"But my mental model of decent-person Maitimo says that he is happy to wait on re-existing for a century if it helps me be entirely disentangled before I try it."

"I guess it's a mercy in more ways than one that I found out early."

"Yeah." Sigh. "His plan was to tell you after the war."

"How did he think that would go over? 'Thanks for killing my evil god, sweetie, by the way did you know my other boyfriend is my abused captive?'"

"Oh, I think it was going to be 'I've done this for four hundred years and I thought I'd do it forever but then I met you and you're just as good as me in every single respect which I thought went hand-in-hand with the worst thing I've ever done and I loved you and I stopped'."

"Okay yeah he could probably have sold that."

"If I ever want to make him miserable I will tell him you said so."

"Oh if he got me in the right mood and phrased it right I would've eaten it up." Sigh.

Sigh. 

Sauron death art.

So much Sauron death art.