On getting app'd to Paradisa...

[elfling_prince]

I don't want to go.

What reason have you to send me there but to meet with Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn? Not a single one, I've seen the thoughts you have regarding this. You only wish to get me into trouble and go on from there! And Lord Elrond will be joining those there as well! And all know me as a grown elf beyond a thousand years of age.

I'd much prefer to remain in Mirkwood with ada. Although I know you won't honor my request.

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[everwaggingshift]

Mun's are pretty good at not listening.

[Looker rolls his eyes from his perch in the tree.]

[elfling_prince]

Perhaps not but it is worth an attempt all the same.

[everwaggingshift]

Well that may be true sometimes, if you're lucky.

[elfling_prince]

I hope that I might be and she'll see how ridiculous she is being.

[everwaggingshift]

You'll see soon enough at least. Though at times that's what makes muns endearing.

[elfling_prince]

She's not endearing at all. Annoying is more accurate.

[everwaggingshift]

So your mun has absolutely never done anything you approve of? Not once?

[elfling_prince]

Not that I can recall.

[everwaggingshift]

...your mun must sucks then.

[elfling_prince]

She does, indeed, "suck".

[everwaggingshift]

Well, maybe she'll improve.

[elfling_prince]

I hope that she will.

[the_white_rider]

Discussing and arguing against the decision of your mundane won't change your siuation, young elvish prince.

[elfling_prince]

It might, I can't just do nothing when she's being so...

[Is there even a word in existence to describe how upset he is with his mun?]

[the_white_rider]

You will not change her decision, but you can try to influence them, Legolas. Believe me, I have experienced first hand that objecting out rightly isn't the proper and efficient course of action.

[ He knows the feeling. ]

[elfling_prince]

How can I influence her then?

[Come on, Gandalf, be a pal.]

[the_white_rider]

This is something you will have to figure on your own.

[elfling_prince]

I must admit, I expected something a bit more helpful from you of all people...

[the_white_rider]

There is nothing helpful from handing over solution on a plate. Upon finding your answer through your own work, you will find more satisfaction and will come out of it grown.

[ It's Gandalf, young Prince. ]

[elfling_prince]

I'd be satisfied plenty for a way out of this ridiculous Cair Paradisa situation.

[And he's young. And doesn't care.]

[inafadingcrown]

None of us have had choice in the matter, little one. And yet a prince is defined by how he copes with such unexpected difficulties, is he not?

[elfling_prince]

[Stop making sense, he wants to be able to complain.]

I suppose he is, yes.

[Cue the pouting.]

[inafadingcrown]

[If only you knew how many people thought that exact same thing.]

Come now, what would your father say to see you make such expressions?

[elfling_prince]

[He can guess that it's been quite a few.]

... That he raised me better and that I should act like it.

[inafadingcrown]

And you would make him proud, would you not? The castle residents would surely benefit from a prince of Mirkwood as a defender. [Galadriel, no. Feeding the ego of the elfling is a bad idea.]

[elfling_prince]

Of course I wish to make him proud!

[Oh no... It's a very bad idea to feed his ego.]

They would! Ada says I'm already becoming skilled as a warrior!

[inafadingcrown]

So you see? We have found purpose for you there already.

[elfling_prince]

I guess we have~!

[He might be a tiiiiiiny bit excited to go now.]

[lightbranded]

Muns often seem to make little sense, I've found. Yet if they choose so, we must go.

[elfling_prince]

That does not mean I can't object to her treatment of me. I am the son of the Elvenking and she treats me like a human child.

[lightbranded]

Goodness. All that, are you? It has been some time since I have met elves.

[elfling_prince]

You've met elves before? Who?

[lightbranded]

Not in my world. But I did meet some in the castle before. The lady Galadriel for one.

[elfling_prince]

Lady Galadriel is a wonderful example of our kind.

[lightbranded]

Are you from the same world?