anon text. 'gold star you tried' encryption

[lordof]

matin. elona. shu. names, or words?

he wants to keep us apart. wants to hurt her. us. there are more where he came from.

who are we, i wonder.




((ooc: sauron is one of those receiving different memories. but he is also a dirty liar, so come one come all for mild misinformation /o/ all replies will be anon with the same fail!encryption.

the names are purposefully incorrect, they are transliterated from his native language.))

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[summerlord]

[oh, it's like speaking with Galadriel]

We are the questions, caught in a place with neither beginning or end.

[lordof]

[PRETTY MUCH except worse because he doesn't like you much elrond.]

everything begins, so everything must end. there is always an end.

the right questions have been asked. we are ready now.

[summerlord]

Are we ready for the end or the beginning?

[lordof]

of course we are. we have to be. it has already started, and it will not stop.

[summerlord]

Of course it will not stop. Time never does. That one has to be ready does not necessarily imply that one will be ready.

[lordof]

time will stop when the perception of it does. when minutes are overlooked and hours at not counted, numbers remain unchanged, and the sun does not rise.

we will be. we are.

[summerlord]

Should that day come, that is also the day we cease to be.

[And enough of this. Time for a more pointed question.] How are we ready?

[lordof]

you and i, or those who always were? time is an inconvenient thing.

[hhhooow about no. yes, but no.] only the darkness knows. have you listened to it lately, lord?

[summerlord]

Inconvenient, perhaps, to some. A gift to others.

[Among all those who he has met here, only those from home have ever called him "lord." He's not counting that form of address a fluke. Hello, suspicion. Fancy seeing you here.]

I listen to many things.

[lordof]

we will not need it where we are going.

you have heard it, then? the whispers in the night. they speak to us, if we would but lend them an ear.

[summerlord]

They have a wary ear.

[lordof]

wariness is quite unbecoming of you. and it will do no good, when the time comes. listen closely to the darkness, now.

[summerlord]

It is not only the darkness that speaks.

[lordof]

it will be. when all this is over, and only the night remains.

[summerlord]

There will be more that stands than simply darkness. [Quiet assurance.]

[lordof]

perhaps. yet when darkness falls, one cannot see even one's own hand, let alone another's.

[summerlord]

Sight is not our only sense.

[lordof]

but it will be what you need, to know if you are truly not alone.

[summerlord]

If I rely on one thing, then I cripple myself. No, there are other ways.

[lordof]

the darkness will deceive you wherever you go. by sight, or sound, or touch.

there are no other ways.