[ sometime this week, when laura is out and about, a small bird with long skinny legs flaps hurriedly down nearby. once it has their attention, its long skinny beak opens and words come pouring out! real actual words which don't sound bird voicey at all. in fact, it sounds like a familiar weird redhead they might know: ]
"Hi Laura! So I'm throwing a brunch in the orchard this Friday morning around elevenish and I'd love you to come! Please bring anything you--"
[ whoops, maybe there was more to the message? either way, the bird takes off again to fly out toward the horizon and back to its home island in the distance. feel free to interpret that unfinished request however you might, brunch buddy! ]
[ Curufin is leaning on the door of the shack he built over the ice hole in Hadriel's central lake, and behind him, the Northern Lights flash above the horizon. But there is something odd about this sky; it shimmers with more than the light of solar electrons flaring as they swirl and spiral down the well of the north pole. ]
Laura? I have to say goodbye. . .
[ Something about his stance says he's resisting a storm out of the Beyond, in order to remain here for just a few more minutes. ]
[ In this case, they are not. He's figured out a way to evade the Door, but still he is summoned elsewhere, by another means and route, and he may not evade what he has evoked. ]
Yes. I'm going into the Great Void, the Darkness between the worlds. I have a long and interesting journey to make.
I wish I might stay to help you figure out the mystery of that ring. When I touched it, I felt a very strange energy, dark and powerful, but somehow related to the powers that I understand, those of earth and fire. Metals and stones speak to craftsmen such as I, and it spoke of the dark spell of its origin. I don't now if I could have duplicated that spell without jeopardizing the balance I have struck in my life, between the substances of light and darkness. But I would have tried.
But I am glad that you have that ring, since it will protect you from the demoness, and you already know how to be the ringbearer.
[he's lucky, then. to escape what others have tried to for years]
... that sounds dangerous. Need any help?
[she sighs] I think my ring is gonna be beyond everybody here. No one can seem to figure out how it works or how to enchant things with the same magic. But--why would it be dark? It saved me. [not from death, but from possession by BOB, which she would have counted as worse than death]
Ringbearer? No, it's just a--a ring a one armed man was wearing. Then he gave it to me. Nothing special about that.
[ Hehe, he's an Elf of the First Age of Arda, and a son of Fëanor, who was the craftiest Elf ever to wield craftsmen's tools or to make manifest the concepts of Elvish science. Curufin can summon light and darkness, as could his father, and he can disembody and re-embody himself. (OOC: In this case, he may have done it with a little help from Leo Flynn, but we're still threading, so I'm not sure exactly. )
And he can set his foot on the threshold of the Other World. ]
It is a bit on the dangerous side. [ That's putting it mildly! ] I'm not sure. Is there some way you can help me?
A ring that wards off a demon as powerful as Caedra? If that one-armed man created the ring, then he must have unlocked an arcane secret or two! And even if he didn't make it, and was just the messenger, he certainly know what it was for and who needed to have it. The scent of magic is in the air. [ Smile. ]
[none of that means anything to her. all she knows is that she was in need of help and he was kind to her. she guards kindnesses like jewels, they've been so few and far between in her life. and life here]
Then, stay. [she doesn't know, but] I can try?
Can't you stay and try to figure out that magic? That would be a challenge. One that could take months and months. You don't have to go now.
[ He feels the same way about her. There is no jewel like kindness! It is more precious than all the rubies of the East, more precious than the three Silmarils for which he and all his brothers except Maglor died. ]
I don't know how to stay now. I would if I could. Laura, you're helping me right now, by showing me how much you care. It gives me strength. But I wish I could do the same for you.
It would have been fascinating to have worked on that ring and tried to duplicate its spell, or to have found someone who could. I'd have loved to do that.
[she used to think that kindness was a weakness. then she came here and learned how wrong she was. it took a while, though]
But--but aren't you really friggen' powerful? There's gotta be a way. [a pause] Oh, jeez. Don't say that. [she doesn't think she deserves it]
Then stick around and find out. You came closest to anyone to figuring it out.
Please? [she doesn't, either. she's lost people before. she lost Aren, who she'd become as close as sisters with. but Aren just vanished, she didn't stick around for a goodbye]
[ It's Valentine's Day and Donut's all buttered up into his latest outfit all white feathers and toga garb. He's got his lucky bow and a slew of orders to fill! So, he does what Gods do best - he takes the easy way out. Being a literal Flower God chosen by Heaven Donut's got a few nifty abilities in times like these where he needs to delivery dozen and dozen of bouquets all in one day! He's like Santa Claus! And like Santa Claus he plays the part and dresses up in the good old white and red! One at a time, he picks up each special bouquet and teleports - bike and all - to each person!
One moment she might be at home, at the store, out hunting - wherever she might be Hadriel's local self-appointed Cupid comes a knocking wearing the traditional garb of his brethren sitting atop a decorated bike. ]
[okay, that. takes some of the wind from her sails. and she takes the bouquet with a vaguely incredulous look. she has a crush on Rey, but she's hardly the flowers type. and it's a him? but Barry doesn't have a goatee.
and okay, this guy is kind of adorable]
Well, uh. Mind giving me his name? So I can thank him properly?
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text; mar 9
Date: 2018-03-10 04:33 am (UTC)hey u up? i cant sleep and im bored.
idt weve met.
im harlan.
hi.
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Date: 2018-03-10 08:57 pm (UTC)I don't think so, either.
My name's Laura Palmer.
Hi, yourself.
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Date: 2018-03-31 11:15 pm (UTC)Getting high. Getting laid.
[pretty honest, apparently]
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Date: 2018-07-09 06:29 pm (UTC)"Hi Laura! So I'm throwing a brunch in the orchard this Friday morning around elevenish and I'd love you to come! Please bring anything you--"
[ whoops, maybe there was more to the message? either way, the bird takes off again to fly out toward the horizon and back to its home island in the distance. feel free to interpret that unfinished request however you might, brunch buddy! ]
Re: invitation-- mimosas in the morning? it's no yolk!
Date: 2018-07-09 11:16 pm (UTC)after she hears its message and it flies away, she calls out]
I'd love to come! See you then!
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Date: 2018-12-16 03:35 am (UTC)Laura? I have to say goodbye. . .
[ Something about his stance says he's resisting a storm out of the Beyond, in order to remain here for just a few more minutes. ]
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Date: 2018-12-16 03:45 am (UTC)[she thought that the stupid gods were responsible for who came and left]
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Date: 2018-12-16 04:52 am (UTC)Yes. I'm going into the Great Void, the Darkness between the worlds. I have a long and interesting journey to make.
I wish I might stay to help you figure out the mystery of that ring. When I touched it, I felt a very strange energy, dark and powerful, but somehow related to the powers that I understand, those of earth and fire. Metals and stones speak to craftsmen such as I, and it spoke of the dark spell of its origin. I don't now if I could have duplicated that spell without jeopardizing the balance I have struck in my life, between the substances of light and darkness. But I would have tried.
But I am glad that you have that ring, since it will protect you from the demoness, and you already know how to be the ringbearer.
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Date: 2018-12-16 04:58 am (UTC)... that sounds dangerous. Need any help?
[she sighs] I think my ring is gonna be beyond everybody here. No one can seem to figure out how it works or how to enchant things with the same magic. But--why would it be dark? It saved me. [not from death, but from possession by BOB, which she would have counted as worse than death]
Ringbearer? No, it's just a--a ring a one armed man was wearing. Then he gave it to me. Nothing special about that.
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Date: 2018-12-16 05:15 am (UTC)And he can set his foot on the threshold of the Other World. ]
It is a bit on the dangerous side. [ That's putting it mildly! ] I'm not sure. Is there some way you can help me?
A ring that wards off a demon as powerful as Caedra? If that one-armed man created the ring, then he must have unlocked an arcane secret or two! And even if he didn't make it, and was just the messenger, he certainly know what it was for and who needed to have it. The scent of magic is in the air. [ Smile. ]
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Date: 2018-12-16 05:21 am (UTC)Then, stay. [she doesn't know, but] I can try?
Can't you stay and try to figure out that magic? That would be a challenge. One that could take months and months. You don't have to go now.
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Date: 2018-12-16 05:45 am (UTC)I don't know how to stay now. I would if I could. Laura, you're helping me right now, by showing me how much you care. It gives me strength. But I wish I could do the same for you.
It would have been fascinating to have worked on that ring and tried to duplicate its spell, or to have found someone who could. I'd have loved to do that.
Oh, Laura! [ He does not know what to say. ]
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Date: 2018-12-16 05:57 am (UTC)But--but aren't you really friggen' powerful? There's gotta be a way. [a pause] Oh, jeez. Don't say that. [she doesn't think she deserves it]
Then stick around and find out. You came closest to anyone to figuring it out.
Please? [she doesn't, either. she's lost people before. she lost Aren, who she'd become as close as sisters with. but Aren just vanished, she didn't stick around for a goodbye]
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Date: 2019-02-13 06:10 am (UTC)One moment she might be at home, at the store, out hunting - wherever she might be Hadriel's local self-appointed Cupid comes a knocking wearing the traditional garb of his brethren sitting atop a decorated bike. ]
Hiya!
I'm the new Cupid in town with a Special Delivery!
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Date: 2019-02-14 01:55 am (UTC)Really. Someone here sent me flowers.
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Date: 2019-02-15 06:22 am (UTC)[ He says with a flit and flutter of his wings and toga as he happily presents her with a bouquet of red and white flowers. ]
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Date: 2019-02-15 07:53 pm (UTC)and okay, this guy is kind of adorable]
Well, uh. Mind giving me his name? So I can thank him properly?
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Date: 2019-02-16 01:41 am (UTC)He's Hadriel's most eligible cook - Sanji!
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Date: 2019-02-16 01:48 am (UTC)I don't know him. At least I don't think I do? Has he been to the Speakeasy?
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Date: 2019-02-16 02:03 am (UTC)[ He scratches his cheek as he thinks on that. ]
We have a Speakeasy here?
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