starrydome: Small, frightened Elrond (baby!Elrond)
starrydome ([personal profile] starrydome) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2022-09-24 06:22 pm
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EP - baby!elrond - age 8 (almost)

Fall means mushrooms and berries and meat, even in the cold Keep where the remaining Sons of Fëanor have made their home.

So while the child that slips through the door is still pale and thin, his first thought isn't to sneak up to the magical lady (who looks like just an only shaped table of sorts) and ask for food.

Instead he makes his way over to the soft seating in front of the fireplace where the magical fish live.

They're still there.

He smiles at them. A small, soft smile.

If fish can live in fire, so can the Peredhil live with the Kinslayers a while.

He is dressed in a tunic that is clearly meant for a bigger person and leggins that are a little too short in the legs. His wrists and face bear faded bruises (food gathering and sparring will get you those) but his hands are clean and his hair is neatly braided.


He looks around, his eyes big and bright and cautious.
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[personal profile] brave_kreyu 2022-09-25 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Hello, youngling," Kreyu calls out to him, voice soft. There is something about his scent that is familiar, but scent changes as one grows up, as life changes you.

By happenstance, Kreyu is wearing something that would not be out of place in his own world, a green dress, one suited for doing work in woods and fields. She looks like a human woman, but her fea, her soul, is that of an immortal, a magically powerful being.

"I am called Kreyu."
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[personal profile] brave_kreyu 2022-09-25 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
"I am glad to meet you, Peredhel," she replies.

She picks up on his puzzlement. "It is the nature of my kind for the soul to have more than one shape it may take in the physical world. You are sensing some of the other shapes of my soul, perhaps."

She looks at the fish. "They are such fascinating creatures aren't they? They will eat breadcrumbs, if you toss them into the fire," she confides.
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[personal profile] brave_kreyu 2022-09-25 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I do not know what a Maia is, so I am most likely not one of them," Kreyu replies.

"I am..." she pauses. "I believe I have met someone from your world before, judging by your scent. There are creatures in your world by the same name as my kind, but from what I have gathered we are quite different from one another."

"My impression was that they were evil creatures, and great enemies to the peoples of your world. I do not wish to frighten you."
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[personal profile] brave_kreyu 2022-09-26 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"I am a dragon, Peredhel," Kreyu replies, voice quiet and slightly musical. Her body language is soft, welcoming, not-a-threat.

"I have lived many lifetimes among the peoples of my universe as one of their own, helping, guiding, teaching. I would not harm you or those you hold dear for the world, but I will leave, if you wish it."

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[personal profile] brave_kreyu 2022-09-27 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
She's relieved at his lack of fear, and she smiles. "I suppose it is, in a way. It is an innate ability of my kind. This is another shape of my soul, as true as the draconic one in which I first drew breath."

She laughs, low and musical. "I have spent far more time in this shape than my draconic shape, to speak truly! Aside from being less likely to frighten people like this, my draconic shape is very large, larger than even the greatest whales in the sea."
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[personal profile] brave_kreyu 2022-09-29 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Kreyu is amused at his skepticism. "I could show you outside, if you'd like?" she offers.

"It would be most rude of my to assume my draconic shape in here." And possibly painful what with furniture, ceilings, and other such things.
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[personal profile] brave_kreyu 2022-09-30 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"No need to decide now," Kreyu replies, sensing his conflict.

"Would you like something to eat?" In her experience, children are hungry fairly often, what with one thing or another.

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little_pieces_of_time: Max holding her camera in front of her like a talisman or shield. (smol photog)

[personal profile] little_pieces_of_time 2022-09-26 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
At a nearby table, there is a young human cutting pieces of flyers and colorful brochures and other materials, and neatly gluing them into the margins of what looks like a heavily scrapbooked kind of journal. One of the pieces of paper has the image of two giant sea creatures swimming freely together - one obviously the parent of the other - in a friendly blue.

She notices the kid over by the fire, and offers a small, awkward (but friendly!) wave.
little_pieces_of_time: Max offering a cautious but hopeful smile. (let's be friends?)

[personal profile] little_pieces_of_time 2022-09-26 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Max smiles in his direction, carefully pressing the latest snippet to the opposite page (a deer looking very judgemental with a monocle impossibly perched before its eye) before tilting the book so he might see it more easily. "Yes, they are. That's the sign at the Two Whales Diner, in my hometown."

The book itself is most certainly a journal, the handwriting not terribly neat but legible, the margins of the book full of drawings accented by light swaths of color, as well as stickers and snips of interesting flyers and such.

"I've not been there in five years, but I'm meeting a friend there for breakfast tomorrow."
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[personal profile] little_pieces_of_time 2022-09-26 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Someone who..." she echoes then blinks. "Ah, no, a diner as in a place to go to... dine. A restaurant or similar, where one can go to buy and eat food. The Two Whales is the name of the diner in my hometown of Arcadia Bay. Actual whales aren't an uncommon sight, either, out at the mouth of the bay."
little_pieces_of_time: Max and Chloe balancing on the rails of the train tracks, holding hands. (Chloe)

[personal profile] little_pieces_of_time 2022-09-26 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"You may see whales again one day," she replies encouragingly, looking at him. The bruises are... worrisome, though potentially normal for a more rambunctious kid. "I thought I'd never see Arcadia Bay again when my family had to move away years ago, but today I got to watch the sunset over the bay with my best friend again for the first time in ages."
little_pieces_of_time: Max staring upwards in shock and fear, backlight by the storm. (shock)

[personal profile] little_pieces_of_time 2022-09-26 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a flicker of fear in her look as she hears him - 'don't think anything is left.' The fear is not directed as him, but at some other thought, some other home-ending cataclysm.

"I'm... so sorry," she says, quiet. "No one should have to experience something so terrible. I am... glad that you and your brother have each other, at least. A-are you safe, where you are now?"

Details such as the ill fit of his tunic, which initially hid some of the skinniness, are coming into focus for her now.
little_pieces_of_time: Max looking cautious, concerned, and maybe a little hurt. (You're doing me a concern here)

[personal profile] little_pieces_of_time 2022-09-26 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The idea troubles Max, who has to bite her tongue.

('Do, or do not. There is no try.')

"I... wouldn't know what the attempt to avoid cruelty would be worth, after already doing all that, but I suppose it is a small mercy. D'you... I mean, there's always food here..."

She almost asks if there would be an opportunity of escape, but refrains at the last moment. Presumably his brother is also young. They would be too young to venture off into the wilds alone, with no guidance or guarantee of running into someone who could or would help them.

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