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[valouric]

Your ideas on how to amuse yourself at my expense is detestable, at best.

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[therangerking]

[ Heaaaaadtilts? ]

My lady?

[valouric]

[ well, crap. ]

Lord Aragorn. [ why yes that's all you're getting from her at this point. ]

[therangerking]

Lady Eowyn. [ They can do this all day. ]

[valouric]

[ they can. it's, like, middle earth royalty 101. ] It has been a while, since I saw you last.

[therangerking]

Aye. [ A breath out. Then- ]

So you have been taken to a strange place as well.

[valouric]

I have been there for a long time. [ she looks away. ] It is all I can do to survive it.

[ pause. ] What about you, my lord?

[therangerking]

The place is new to me still. [ Quietly. ] So new that I find myself lost, as if the ground beneath my feet is but an illusion.

[ He shakes his head. It is not time to dwell upon his own troubles. ]

Surely there are friends who will come to your aid.

...YOU TOLD ME TO BRING MERRY.

[masterholbytla]

Fancy seeing you here, my lord.

[therangerking]

Merry. [ He turns, and he cannot help but smile. ]

'Tis good to see you, friend.

[masterholbytla]

Well. I suppose it is. I haven't been going anywhere, these past few days. I do believe this inactivity is beginning to severely affect my health.

[ WHAT NO THIS IS NOT TRUE. ]

[therangerking]

'Tis difficult to imagine you inactive, Merry. [ Softly. ] Yet it seems that all roads from this place are perilous for Men, much less for a small hobbit.

[masterholbytla]

Not to ones who have absolutely nowhere to go, it seems.

[therangerking]

Can your feet not turn towards home instead?

[justthedriver]

Decided on a way yet?

[valouric]

[ oh hello, someone she does not like to look at. ]

Do not pretend you have no knowledge of what they intend to do.

[justthedriver]

Not the whole of it. [ All the smirking. ]

Just interesting parts.

[valouric]

Interesting parts?

[ she has an idea, though. ]

[justthedriver]

[ He just looks her up and down. Very, very overtly.

Then he licks his lips. ]

[valouric]

[ the urge to hit him is. rising. ]

You have the manners of an Orc.

lmao why not.

[inestimablevalue]

[ He takes a long drag of his cigar. ]

There is certainly much to be examined about her reasons.

WHY DO YOU MAKE HER SUFFER SO.

[valouric]

[ this one, she hasn't seen before. forgive her if she'll just be staring at his face now. ]

FUN JOY LAUGHTER. AND CACKLING.

[inestimablevalue]

[ He just steeples his fingers and looks at her. ]

My face shocks you. [ But unlike Nikolai, it's not a drawl. It's more of a contemplative hum. ]

It reminds you of someone you know?

ONLY YOU WILL FIND FUN JOY LAUGHTER HERE.

[valouric]

Two. [ one of which she cares about, or at least thinks she does.

the other... well. ]

this is the best amusement admit it

[inestimablevalue]

[ For the sake of even greater cackling, I'm going to imagine Nikolai as the first and Aragorn for the second. ]

Two. [ He sounds surprised, leaning backwards on his seat, eyes widening. Blink. He takes a drag of the cigar. ]

And what are they to you?

WHAT THE HELL.

[valouric]

[ NO /rejects ]

I do not know. [ she eyes him, then. ] Why do you ask these questions?