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Axe 01 - Audio - Open to Both Courts - Forward-dated to October 2nd

[Not a video, just audio. It’s clear, however, that the person on the other end is inspecting the locket]

--hmph, thought as much. "Say a phrase and the magic will work", hm? Ridiculous. Who ever heard of speaking over distances with a locket.. Not even Legolas with all his fanciful Elven stories would have come up with something so foolish.

[More tapping and poking can be heard]

There’s nothing special about this at all. No gems, not even made of precious metals...and those creatures expect me to believe their stories? [A snort] I’d sooner believe there’s a man in Rohan afraid of horses! [He pauses, and then scoffs] Bah, listen to me, talking to myself. Legolas must be rubbing off on me more than I thought!

[Click goes the locket.]

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[ It seems he had got himself into this corner now, where he wishes he could brush it off as nothing, avoid the subject gracefully and with the same elegance that his limbs know, he knows Gimli better than this. He knows he would not have it.

And he does not wish to lie to him either. ]

For a time, there were a great many anchors that have held me firmly in Middle Earth despite the yearning that had awoken. One by one these anchors withered and crumbled, and though my father remained, I had to set sail.

[ With you. Should he say that? ]

My last anchor, however, I took with me. So that you could see the marvels of my new home and approve, [ yes, he had stayed so long as he had, despite the deep longing for the sea that had him aching each day, for all his mortal friends, ] and so that you could speak with the Lady that had swayed your heart once more.

[Gimli just stares at Legolas.

He can't be serious. A Dwarf, sail West with an Elf and be allowed to see Valinor? Impossible!

But Legolas doesn't lie, not to him, and so...

He mumbles something in Khuzdul]

You come from a long time after the War, then. Oh, Legolas.

[He knows, a little, of the pain that must have caused him, to stay in Middle-earth and see his friends all die and the world change. But he did, and Gimli stayed with him.

Well, of course he did. Why wouldn't he?]

[ Gimli is very correct in that: there are matters he would rather not mention at all, indeed, but when he must then it will be all truth and not a thread of a lie in any of it.

There is a soft smile in his voice now, though it's heavily laced with sadness he tries to hide. ]

Aye, ninety years have I lived at Valinor when the fairy folk came to ask for aid.

[ But no matter, rejoice, rejoice for his dearest friend is there and there is plenty of land to traverse for them together. ]

You will have seen all of Valinor with me, 'tis a future I promise you! And here you will see all of Drabwurld with me as well. Varied and beautiful land it is, though war ravaged as well.

[Ninety...if everyone else has died and it's ninety years after that...Gimli himself is either very old or dead, unless the grace of the Valar was extended to him as well (and he doesn't think it would be, he is a Dwarf and only his Maker has ever really cared for Dwarves).

Legolas, he appreciates you not telling him that but really he isn't stupid. Still, he does not comment on it]

Aye, and so was Middle-earth when I left it. It will be just as it should be.

[ That their conversation does not turn to paths most uncomfortable, Legolas is very grateful. And so he offers a smile and it rings fresh like a morning breeze on a summer day. Perhaps too, it's been a while since he felt such relief, and smiled so freely. ]

So it will be.

[ A pause with a soft gasp, a huff of laughter. ]

You will have to forgive me my sentiment, Gimli, but I may burst if I do not give voice to this: you deserve the hard earned peace of Middle Earth, but selfishly I rejoice to have you at my side here in this world.

It is as if a sense of safety has been returned to me.

[Gimli waves aside Legolas's request for "forgiveness"--as if he'd forgive his friend for being an Elf!]

Bah, you deserve it as much as if. It's only fair that if you do not get to enjoy the peace I shouldn't either. Besides, you'll be bored without me!

[He pauses]

And if I must be here, I would prefer to be here at your side. I too feel safer this way.

Aye, to be without your sense of humour and great charm all those months-! [ Enter stage left: exaggerated theatrics to distract them both. ] Each day my heard ached, when all I had to content myself with were memories. Terrible fate has visited me, yet now it may be chased away.

[ It softens then, though, just a little to convey the truth and honesty of those words, hidden behind the teasing tone. ]

What sense of safety I may offer, it is always yours, Gimli, be it a hand on your shoulder or my skills with bow and arrows.

Or your absurd love of theatrics?

[He's smiling though, please to be with Legolas again. He hasn't missed him, really, since for him it was only yesterday that they were bickering over what to eat for dinner]

Foolish Elf.

An entertainment in its own right, is it not? You would be bored without me much in the same way!

[ And Legolas, in turn, is laughing. ]

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Axe 01 - Audio - Open to Both Courts - Forward-dated to October 2nd

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