[ He stands firm. He does not regret this, he cannot, for he spoke the truth. They did do good work this day, and Kaldur truly believes that this is an avenue for a brighter future. ]
[ Kaldur will be a real life person who can actually speak friend. ronery is far better than lost inside your head, trust Kal on that one ]
Then I am glad to have met you, as kin to a friend, and I am sorry to bear ill news.
[ There's a pause, little more than a moment where Kaldur dwells on the words second father. What he would give, to have never known who his father was. Or that he had been someone else. ]
I hope that they may find a way to be reconciled. Family makes for painful enemies. [ He knows that, now. ] And I imagine it hard to be sundered, almost-father and son. [ That sounds far less like speculation than the statement would seem. ]
[ But when you die he'll be all by himself again ;A; ]
No... [ a soft exhale ] Tis better by far to learn of it this way, and I thank you for it.
Alas, it is far too late for that. In my world, Celegorm is already long dead, and even I have not spoken to Tylpe in ... centuries. I fear that bridge will never now be crossed.
[ a hesitant pause - Maglor heard that thread of certainty, and wonders if he should breach it? ]
I... hope that your own circumstances will never be as bleak.
[ You can't die permanently here that won't be a problem. ]
This world is strange, and there is no loss in hoping.
[ Kaldur will just refuse if it goes to far, poking is probably not a bad idea. He should poke at it himself. ]
Not in the same manner, I doubt.
[ Does it count if you were enemies before you knew yourself to be kin? Does kinship even hold across such ties?
Can you mourn something you have never had?
And what of King Orin? Almost as much a father as the one he had believed his own, to have not trusted him, with something so important to know? To have served with full heart and mind and soul and to have still been held in doubt, mistrust?
TO have left, because he could not bear the weight of everything that had fallen upon his shoulders in so scant few hours, before he had arrived to this world.
quieter, almost to himself ]
Is it truly a sundering if there was nothing there before to break? If you never knew something to be lost to you.
{ osmosis: the movement of solvent molecules (in this case, oxygen) from an area of high concentration (ocean) to lo concentration (atlantean lungs) through a semi-permiable membrane (skin and flesh and junk). }
[ Kaldur has hope, and belief, that people can change, if that is what they desire. He has seen it enough. ]
Perhaps that is so. [ There is no need for apology, it is something he should hear, he should dwell upon. ]
I confess I do not listen to my own as often as I ought to, perhaps. [ Kaldur has to be the head, has to be reason. He cannot risk losing his team, his friends, his family. He has been too late, twice, for the one he loved, and the last time it was fatal.
He never had a chance with his biological father to start with, it seems. ]
[ a soft brittle sound that might almost have been a laugh ]
Only death and despair unending. [ Did he not hope, did they not both hope they were free here? That they could chart their own course? And yet Celegorm falls as surely to madness as he did back home, and the Oath now awake drives them both. Truly they are forsaken ]
I think that true of most, sir - the haert speaks subtly, and at times she is easily confused and disturbed, her currents do not run smooth. In a world such as this, perhaps it is a weakness [ So said Will, once, and Maglor begins to think him right ]
[Someone has a negative outlook that Kaldur will not be able to combat over a network, but it is a perspective he will put in his mind for later. ]
The heart is never a weakness, simply there are times when it must be listened to, but not heeded in full.
The weight of a heart is no reason to silence it, for all good things require patience and love and pain. [ It seems strange, to speak such wisdom, but he thinks of how far his team, his family has come, and all they have face, and all they face still. What he faces, and what the fragments of his team faces (old and new team, those he has come to know and care for here).
[ Someone has a negative outlook that is shortly to be proven highly accurate! ]
Perhaps - tis selfish of me, but once again this burden grows wearisome, and if I had not promised... [ I would fain be rid of it again but he promised Elrond, before he left, and he promised House and Daud both he would tell them when he felt this bad before making any decisions, and Father had been so worried... ]
In any case, I hope that your road leads to better places than mine.
[ You have one brother, soon to be dead and then alive again, and free of the questionable hold of an evil? witch-queen. that at least qualifies for half-wrong. ]
I am glad that others would guard your heart, but I would that you protect and cherish it for your own sake as well.
And I hope your road leads to good places, regardless of where mine will go.
[ a pause. ]
And I would give aid to you, for Celebrimbor's sake, as well as for what guidance you have given me, if you should call for it.
[ He's still dead though. Again. And it's his fault because he didn't do as Will suggested and Wish for the damn jewel in the first place ]
I do not know why any would [ so soft, it is almost an aside murmured to himself ]
I thank you, sir, but our roads have always led only to blood and madness, and even in new lands such as this it seems we are not free. [ a quiet shrug ] My nephew thought of you fondly, it seems, and for that I would offer you what little aid I might, but I fear even that accursed. Yet your offer is kind, sir, and I thank you for it, irregardless.
[ Yeah, no. Kaldur is a sorcerer, if not an expert one, and he's gonna tell you right now that any Capital Letter magic is Trouble. I'm talkin' 'bout trouble, with a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'D' and that stands for 'dead without a soul.'
I mean, yeah it's your fault for demanding from a demigod of war instead of asking, and not reigning in Celegorm, but on that vein Kaldur didn't really put a lid on Clarisse either so that's part his fault, too. ]
Because a heart, any heart, is worth fighting to keep. [ He has the lifes and deaths to prove this, you aren't going to get him to budge on this. ] Hearts are what allow us to learn, and feel, and change. Be that for better or worse or back again.
[ People and curses, man, what is up with everyone. ]
You are most welcome for it, and it stands open, always.
[ But if it is Maglor who dies, and Celegorm who lives, perhaps this will assuage the guilt of letting him die once already... it mightn't be so bad, to be dead. At the least, it would be more peaceful
Also Mags asked nicely please and thank you, and even begged - it isn't his fault she thought it'd be funny to laugh at him ]
There are many who would argue the opposite, for me and mine, or indicate that we are without already.
[ a quiet acknowledging bow ] May you never have cause to regret that offer.
[ But he cannot help but think that they are probably right, for if he had killed them both at the beginning, surely this would all have been different... ]
My thanks then, sir. I do not think I ever got your name.
magic or something who even knows (osmosis)
Kaldur will be a real life person who can actually speak friend. ronery is far better than lost inside your head, trust Kal on that one]Then I am glad to have met you, as kin to a friend, and I am sorry to bear ill news.
[ There's a pause, little more than a moment where Kaldur dwells on the words second father. What he would give, to have never known who his father was. Or that he had been someone else. ]
I hope that they may find a way to be reconciled. Family makes for painful enemies. [ He knows that, now. ] And I imagine it hard to be sundered, almost-father and son. [ That sounds far less like speculation than the statement would seem. ]
what's osmosis precious?
But when you die he'll be all by himself again ;A;]No... [ a soft exhale ] Tis better by far to learn of it this way, and I thank you for it.
Alas, it is far too late for that. In my world, Celegorm is already long dead, and even I have not spoken to Tylpe in ... centuries. I fear that bridge will never now be crossed.
[ a hesitant pause - Maglor heard that thread of certainty, and wonders if he should breach it? ]
I... hope that your own circumstances will never be as bleak.
tb explained
You can't die permanently here that won't be a problem.]This world is strange, and there is no loss in hoping.
[ Kaldur will just refuse if it goes to far, poking is probably not a bad idea. He should poke at it himself. ]
Not in the same manner, I doubt.
[ Does it count if you were enemies before you knew yourself to be kin? Does kinship even hold across such ties?
Can you mourn something you have never had?
And what of King Orin? Almost as much a father as the one he had believed his own, to have not trusted him, with something so important to know? To have served with full heart and mind and soul and to have still been held in doubt, mistrust?
TO have left, because he could not bear the weight of everything that had fallen upon his shoulders in so scant few hours, before he had arrived to this world.
quieter, almost to himself ]
Is it truly a sundering if there was nothing there before to break? If you never knew something to be lost to you.
{ osmosis: the movement of solvent molecules (in this case, oxygen) from an area of high concentration (ocean) to lo concentration (atlantean lungs) through a semi-permiable membrane (skin and flesh and junk). }
FASCINATING /chinhands
you can eventually and you're all mortal anyway so he outlives you sob]Perhaps, but not for me and mine. [ quiet and resigned ]
That you never knew before does not change what you know now. [ sympathy and apology - Maglor did not mean to stir wounds on the other side as well ]
The heart feels deeply and knows, I think, better than our minds sometimes.
/smooches
[ Kaldur has hope, and belief, that people can change, if that is what they desire. He has seen it enough. ]
Perhaps that is so. [ There is no need for apology, it is something he should hear, he should dwell upon. ]
I confess I do not listen to my own as often as I ought to, perhaps. [ Kaldur has to be the head, has to be reason. He cannot risk losing his team, his friends, his family. He has been too late, twice, for the one he loved, and the last time it was fatal.
He never had a chance with his biological father to start with, it seems. ]
But that is a luxury I can rarely afford.
/curls up in your lap
Only death and despair unending. [ Did he not hope, did they not both hope they were free here? That they could chart their own course? And yet Celegorm falls as surely to madness as he did back home, and the Oath now awake drives them both. Truly they are forsaken ]
I think that true of most, sir - the haert speaks subtly, and at times she is easily confused and disturbed, her currents do not run smooth. In a world such as this, perhaps it is a weakness [ So said Will, once, and Maglor begins to think him right ]
/snuggles close
The heart is never a weakness, simply there are times when it must be listened to, but not heeded in full.
The weight of a heart is no reason to silence it, for all good things require patience and love and pain. [ It seems strange, to speak such wisdom, but he thinks of how far his team, his family has come, and all they have face, and all they face still. What he faces, and what the fragments of his team faces (old and new team, those he has come to know and care for here).
And he knows his words to be true. ]
/purrr
Perhaps - tis selfish of me, but once again this burden grows wearisome, and if I had not promised... [ I would fain be rid of it again but he promised Elrond, before he left, and he promised House and Daud both he would tell them when he felt this bad before making any decisions, and Father had been so worried... ]
In any case, I hope that your road leads to better places than mine.
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I am glad that others would guard your heart, but I would that you protect and cherish it for your own sake as well.
And I hope your road leads to good places, regardless of where mine will go.
[ a pause. ]
And I would give aid to you, for Celebrimbor's sake, as well as for what guidance you have given me, if you should call for it.
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I do not know why any would [ so soft, it is almost an aside murmured to himself ]
I thank you, sir, but our roads have always led only to blood and madness, and even in new lands such as this it seems we are not free. [ a quiet shrug ] My nephew thought of you fondly, it seems, and for that I would offer you what little aid I might, but I fear even that accursed. Yet your offer is kind, sir, and I thank you for it, irregardless.
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I mean, yeah it's your fault for demanding from a demigod of war instead of asking, and not reigning in Celegorm, but on that vein Kaldur didn't really put a lid on Clarisse either so that's part his fault, too. ]
Because a heart, any heart, is worth fighting to keep. [ He has the lifes and deaths to prove this, you aren't going to get him to budge on this. ] Hearts are what allow us to learn, and feel, and change. Be that for better or worse or back again.
[ People and curses, man, what is up with everyone. ]
You are most welcome for it, and it stands open, always.
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Also Mags asked nicely please and thank you, and even begged - it isn't his fault she thought it'd be funny to laugh at him ]
There are many who would argue the opposite, for me and mine, or indicate that we are without already.
[ a quiet acknowledging bow ] May you never have cause to regret that offer.
a bow over locked audio wow /jk
[ Fact. ]
I strongly suspect that I will not, but even so, I will hold to it.
adakejhlkh I FORGOT WHOOPS
[ But he cannot help but think that they are probably right, for if he had killed them both at the beginning, surely this would all have been different... ]
My thanks then, sir. I do not think I ever got your name.
HAHAHAHA i figured
I am Kaldur'ahm, of Shayeris. [ Man he should put it on a record with a play button. ] Also known as Aqualad, to some.
/ashamed
And for my sins I am Maglor, once Makalaure Canafinwe.
Don't be
Well met, Maglor.
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May the ocean currents lead you to safe harbor.