hadriel | Video 8 - Sewing Shop

[ Totally not giggling, noooooo ]

You can always ask! What grey bit? The scales? You can take the skin off.

[totally still pouting!]

I know that much. It's just that there's this grey. . . substance left over when I take the skin off.

[ Snortgiggle ]

Hm, you'll have to show me - or I'll have to show you, I suppose!

[it's not funnyyyyy :( ]

Would you? I realize it's such a silly thing to be concerned over.

[ It totally is~ ]

You aren't used to it, is all. [ Maglor smiles at her ]

Of course I can.

[waaaaaahh]

No, I'm not. Highgarden was surrounded by fields on all sides. We had venison and pheasant and wild boar, but no fish.

Thank you. It seems like I'm always thanking you, doesn't it?

[ /petpetpet ]

Does it? I hadn't noticed in truth, Margaery! I am glad to be able to help, even in such a small thing as this! Besides - you help me too.

[puuuuuurrrrs]

That's because you're modest. But--how do I possibly help you?

[ =D ]

You came to me in my dreaming, and you know my sins and turn me not away. [ He says softly ]

Those are kindnesses that I have had little of, outside of my kin, and they do help, a good deal. So thank you, Margaery.

How could I possibly turn you away when my own sins are so numerous? It would be the height of cruelty.

I'm--I'm happy to help. In any way I can. Never doubt that.

[ He smiles tremulously ]

Thank you. [ His voice leaves no doubt of his sincerity ]

Truly, Margaery. You do. Mortals. You're all so bright, and kind... we Quendi... we don't, we can't forget. And the lash of memory makes it very hard to be kind.

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[she smiles back warmly and takes his hands in hers]

Perhaps that's the advantage of being mortal? We can't help but be kind as our time is so short.

[ He squeezes back ]

I think that must be so. You have a better understanding of time than we do, in many ways, and especially of it's worth.

[she smiles a little sadly]

It's a pity I didn't learn its worth until after I died. I thought I would have an entire lifetime ahead of me.

You were young - are still! - and so do the young always think. But you know better, now.

Yes, I learned the hard way. I would like to say that each day is now precious, but even I have bad days sometimes.

Sometimes its the only way to truly learn. [ Maglor says sadly ]

I think that's just being mortal! I do as well - you should have known me in my youth! How arrogant we were, back then...

Then I have learned my lessons well.

[her voice turns a little teasing] Oh? Arrogant? Would you have even deigned to speak with me, a mere mortal woman?

We did not even known humans existed, until Finrod brought them home!

[ He laughs ]

But ai! I was terrible. I was the best musician in Tirion, the youngest to achieve my Mastery. I would not have given most people time of day!

Brought them home? However did that happen?

[she arches an eyebrow] My, my. Who did measure up to your high standards?

He went wandering. [ Maglor says fondly ]

He always had a wandering heart, our Findarato. He was actually supposed to be visiting Maedhros and I, at the time. Gave us all a scare when he did not come home one day after going out with the Hunt. But then, one day he came riding into the Gap, all aglow with joy and wonder.

"You'll never believe what I found", were the first words out of his mouth, the scamp! He'd found Beor and his people, the first humans to cross the mountains. Beor swore himself to Finrod's service, and his people were the first of the Edain, the Elf-friends.

[ He grins abashedly ]

Elenmmire of Valmar, mostly. She was my music tutor, and only in Echtelion of the Fountain and Daeron of Doriath have I ever heard a flautist to match her.

[that story makes her peal with joyful laughter]

How wonderful! To have met one another and have it go so well! Are the descendants of Beor and his people still there?

Sounds like a terribly high standard to meet.

He was a trial to us all, Finrod the Beloved, Friend of Men. [ Maglor sighs in the put upon manner of all fond older relatives across the multiverse ] He was another who met my standards, if you like! You never heard a voice like Finrod's! Warm and full of joy.

They came back with him, yes, Beor and his family, and they settled in Estolad, in the lands guarded by my youngest brother, and later in Dorthonion. They were a dark-haired and stocky people, stalwart and loyal to a fault, and they suffered great losses for that loyalty - like the Haladin after them, they were almost wiped out by the end of the First Age. Their descendants though, mingled with the other two houses and became the Nuemoreans, the Dunedain of the Third Age. After them came the House of Haleth, the Haladin, stern and dark haired but few and reclusive, they were a proud people who ill-liked being beholden to others. The last house was the House of Marach, later the Hadorians. They were the most numerous, tall and golden haired, fair and valiant. Not all of them went to Numenor, where they mingled with the other two houses, and from those who remained would come such folk as the Rohirrim, the Horselords.

We had other allies too, late come over the mountains, and Bor of the Easterlings served my brother and I loyally, but many of his tribesfolk were not so, and Uldor betrayed us in the battle of Unnumbered Tears, and the Easterlings are no longer friends with the descendants of the Edain. Which is a pity, truly, for Bor was loyal to his own death and that of his sons and many of his people.

So many houses! Did they all have their own rulers or were they ruled by others?

...the battle of Unnumbered Tears. I can only assume that it was a tragedy. Battles in my world don't tend to have such names. Usually, they're named for whatever piece of land or river was nearby, such as the Battle of the Trident where Robert Baratheon and his war hammer defeated Rhaegar Targaryen and went on to take the throne himself.

A little of both - most of the Edain held to their own lords, but many swore themselves to us, also. Only the Haladin never accepted us, I think - but my brother Caranthir said that they took their lady Haleth's example, she would saved them after their lord, her father, and her twin brother were slain. And Haleth would be independent if it killed her, and her people were the same. They might work with you, but never for you.

[ He makes an agreeing noise ]

It... would have been our greatest triumph, if it had worked. It was all our strength and art, all the allies we could call. But when it failed, it failed utterly and our strength was broken. We lost our King, and almost the entiriety of his household and his army, most of our lands... the losses were horrifying. It was the beginning of the end, for us.

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action I am so sorry Margaery keeps getting all these info dumps

action it's okay! I don't know most of it, so it's all new and interesting to me!

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