Just a quiet moment reading

[marriedanidiot]

Who: Nerdanel and whoever!
Where: Library & Garden
When: Various times between platform and next stop
What: Mama Elf is available for chats, hugs, and lullabies but technically she's working. She doesn't mind interruptions!
Warnings: n/a

Garden

As she so often is, Nerdanel can be found sitting in the garden, singing softly as she works on her sculptures. The first is now finished, standing no more than two hands tall, Maedhros looks up out of stone, almost as if he might speak at any moment. She works now on the second, but will not mind company.


Library

The library is new, and therefore interesting, and Nerdanel can be found at intervals browsing through the shelves curiously, flipping through books. Alternatively, she can also be found sketching - a bas relief is taking shape under her pencil - one of the train, by the looks of things. Feel free to interrupt her for a chat!

Comments

[marriedanidiot]

She giggles at the thought.

"Oh dear. A parody can certainly be amusing, but if it were not known to be a parody it might do more harm than good?"

[gundamofthedesert]

"Oh that's true. I'd hate for someone to get the wrong idea about my world, but if I didn't know to tell others the truth, so many wouldn't know." He thought for a moment. "It just seems like something the train would do."

[marriedanidiot]

"That would be my concern too." She agrees. "And it truly does - I have observed that one has to be wary of what exactly one requests."

[gundamofthedesert]

"That is very true. I ordered an outfit from the train just to see what I'd get. It was a very interesting set with a raincoat in light blue. Not bad, but I don't know if I'd ever wear every piece together. I wonder if the train could do something like that with a book."

[marriedanidiot]

"You're making me want to try and find out!" She smiles. "Although it would have to be something innocuous, too, so as not to offend anyone... hm. I wonder how you would have to phrase the request?"

[gundamofthedesert]

"I'm curious now too. Hmm... maybe like a complete history of the world? That way it is specific, but also hopefully won't be a parody."

[marriedanidiot]

"Hm, the only problem I can see with that is if you said 'complete' history, 'complete' by whose standards? After all, we are already certain there is some time issues going on here - so... complete until the end of the world? Until the day the last member of that world currently on this train arrives?"

[gundamofthedesert]

"That's true... it just makes it even more complicated. Sounds like you'd have to request a specific point or a specific era in order to not get too much."

So strange...

[marriedanidiot]

"Yes, I'd agree." She nods. "It wouldn't do to accidently tell someone their future, I suppose... "

Although they rather have, amongst her kin. Not as if Fingon didn't know he was about to die when he arrived though.

[gundamofthedesert]

He nodded. "That could certainly upset some. Especially if it is not information that someone would want to hear."

[marriedanidiot]

"The other concern would be... what if a villain learnt how they might be defeated, or something equally worrying?"

[gundamofthedesert]

"Oh, that's true as well. What if someone went home and remembered what they had read in the book. They could potentially change the whole history of the world."

[marriedanidiot]

"True..." She sighs. "I suppose it is probably not something we should risk, even for the knowledge that might be gained..."

The temptation would be terribly high, and even though there might well be memory loss on the return... what if there isn't.

[gundamofthedesert]

"Yes, I suppose fiction is better in that respect. Even if it doesn't necessarily represent the world accurately, it might do less damage than someone being able to find out too much information."

[marriedanidiot]

"True." She sighs.

"Too dangerous to risk, I suppose. A pity, though - it would be a good way to learn about each other."

[gundamofthedesert]

"It would have. I guess telling each other stories about our world will have to do. That way we can make sure we aren't telling it to someone who could use that information in a negative way."

[marriedanidiot]

"True." She smiles wryly. "This also means we will probably have to be careful how much we commit to paper of any tales we do tell, just in case. Broad strokes are probably fine, so long as details are left out."

[gundamofthedesert]

He nodded. "I agree. Broad is better. Details means someone could trying to change something for the worse. There's just so much to think about when comes to people possibly being from different times."

Talking it through certainly helped to think about them.

[marriedanidiot]

"This is true." She nods.

"Well, at least we can still exchange tales this way!"

[gundamofthedesert]

"Yes, at least we can do that. I'd like to hear about yours at some point."

Not that he knew much about her at the moment, but he'd still like to hear about her world.

[marriedanidiot]

"I am no historian, but any mother knows how to tell a tale or two." She laughs. "Whatever you would like to know, please feel free to ask."

[gundamofthedesert]

He smiled. "I'm sure." He thought about that for a moment. "Is there something that everyone should know about from your world?"

[marriedanidiot]

"Hm."

She taps her chin thoughtfully.

"Well, I suppose, an important thing would be that there are many speaking peoples on my world, but that you should be very wary of those who would not normally wear flesh. Although there are none of the ainur on the train, thank goodness, and I certainly hope none will ever be drawn here!"

[gundamofthedesert]

"Would not normally wear flesh? So there is some creature that is so distinctly inhuman in your world?"

[marriedanidiot]

"Oh yes. The Ainur are beings of spirit, and although they can, and will, clothe themselves in flesh to deal with us, they are very powerful, and not all of them are used to dealing with us Incarnates. Some of them are also actively hostile, and when you have a being who helped create the world being hostile..."