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Mithiel ([personal profile] tintila) wrote 2025-01-26 03:59 am (UTC)

[If Mithiel notices Sets lack of interest, she does not bother to point it out. He isn’t the first to find her boring and she’s sure he will not be the last. Thoth seems attentive enough to make up for Set, in any case. Her smile is soft and radiant when he mentions writing down her stories.] You may write them down if you wish. I have few stories about me that are of note but many of my people, and most of the history thereof. [She suspects Set will grow irritated with them if they did it right now, though she had no shortage of time.]

An elf. We are also called the Eldar. My own people who took the journey but did not finish it are called the Sindar, to the east from whence we first woke there are still some of our Kin who loved the land too much to come west at all, we call them the Avari. There are also our cousins the Telari who once walked with us and did cross the sea, as well as the Noldor many of whom are more troublesome than a legion of Orcs and the Vanyar, of whom we have seen little until the host came. Though Galadriel is partly one and she dwelt with us in Doriath for a time. I did not meet her. [She was nowhere near important enough to meet a guest of the King and Queen. She looks at Set, hoping he “enjoyed” her excessively long answer. She could not punish a King for his tone but she could perhaps bore him to death with a smile on her lips.]

I do not know why I am in your Kingdom, your Majesty. One of our marchwardens had set me on a horse and asked it to take me to the rest of our surviving people. Then everything turned to mist, then sand, and behold I had found myself in this strange place. It is not a craft I know anything of. I am but a forester. I have never heard of anyone passing through lands like this.

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