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Leo Flynn ([personal profile] stealyoursoul) wrote2018-05-20 11:02 pm

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This is Leo. Leave a message and I'll get back to you.

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so_dark_a_road: (in the unmeasured night #3)

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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2018-12-14 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Continued from here. If okay with you? ]

[ Curufin is still standing by the shack that shelters the ice hole he hacked. He looks worried for Leo when he sees the stressed look on the other's face. He replies softly. ] Tell me what's happening?
so_dark_a_road: (the flaming circle of our days)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2018-12-14 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
He'd better get his ass back here soon.

How long do you think you can hold out?
so_dark_a_road: (they came in the dead of winter)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2018-12-14 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
I know about Abigail. She told me that you were both hoping it would help her. I am very sorry she experienced death, but I do not hold it against you anymore than she did. And you sound worried about taking up the offer of this unknown person. [ The word complicated rather suggests this! ]

Not much you can do about keeping people emotionally at arm's length in Hadriel. It's a small town, and nobody does well if they stay isolated. We've all got to have friends and friendly acquaintances.

[ He stops to slap a glove against his sleeve, knocking some snow and ice off his arm. ]

There are some questions I've never asked you. Obviously, Abigail got her soul back after you were through with it. Did she get it back the same as it was before? She seemed to think so.
Edited 2018-12-14 09:46 (UTC)
so_dark_a_road: (many secrets of craft)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2018-12-16 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. That does present a problem.

[ Curufin chuckles in response to Leo's snort. One of the things he likes about Leo is his directness! If he's a loner, then so be it. Curufin, who once had isolationist tendencies himself, understands. ]

Where I'm from, mortals don't come back from the dead, but Elves sometimes do. Even if our bodies die, our spirits retain the memory of the body and may be able to re-manifest it. As beings, we fall about halfway between mortals and those immense spirits, the Maiar, who can take any form they like and are servants to the Valar, our gods. We Elves are more limited, we can't take any form but an Elvish one, but we retain the Maiar's strange relationship between being and the intention to be, body being merely the visible part of soul.

[ He smiles a little. ] I tell you this not to bore you with Elvish philosophy, but to explain why I may be able to help you. Elves have very large souls. I may be able to spare some of my fiery soul-energy, enough to keep you from having to devour anybody else. If you're interested, I'll make a suggestion as to how.
so_dark_a_road: (gaze no more in the bitter glass #1)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-01-03 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ He thinks about that. Could he truly deliver some of that energy to Leo without actually dying? Does he even want to try? It would complicate what is actually a very simple situation. He scratches his head, thinks some more, and then replies.]

All right. Let's keep it straightforward. You can have my whole soul, and I'll die and then attempt to return without the intervention of the gods.

[ They're talking about what could be a dire event for Curufin, but then, he's Curufin. He can't help chuckling a little. ] I have no idea how the soul of an Elf might affect you. You might be reeling, stumbling, falling-down drunk on my energy!