Bored Locke (Open)

[thornofcamorr]

Locke is bored. There's no one to rob here, no one to hoodwink, and he seems to have misplaced his brothers again

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[doriath_crowned]

Here are twins, though not those you're looking for, Locke. They're talking to each other in hushed voices, in Sindarin. Both are subdued and look almost sheepish, actually.

Their pockets are empty - but watch out, Locke. Elves have remarkable senses - you might get caught on this one.

[thornofcamorr]

He's listening to their conversation, actually, with more interest than anything, curious about the language he can't understand.

[doriath_crowned]

After a while, one of them turns and looks at him, abruptly.

"Can we help you?"

[thornofcamorr]

He raises both eyebrows, expression as always perfectly innocent. This is not the face of the man you are looking for.

"Pardon?"

[doriath_crowned]

"You were eavesdropping," one of them says, quieter. "Forgive my brother. He is jumpy, these days."

Said brother glares at him.

[thornofcamorr]

"Since I couldn't understand a word of what you were saying, I hardly think it matters."

[doriath_crowned]

The jumpy twin glares, the other one sighs. "Guess not. Anyway. Just --- sorry." He shrugs, and adds, to his brother's attention, in Sindarin, but perhaps the Mansion translates that bit, or enough for Locke to understand - "We're grounded, fine. Just keep a lid on it. I don't want to be forbidden from seeing Arianna all summer because of your big mouth."

[thornofcamorr]

He does catch that, but it doesn't mean anything to him. He coughs, politely.

[doriath_crowned]

"Hm, sorry," the jumpy twin mutters. "I was out of line."

[thornofcamorr]

Locke snorts. "Hardly. Just carrying on a conversation, I thought?"

[doriath_crowned]

"Yeah." One of the boys plops on the other. "And you? Were you waiting for someone?"

[thornofcamorr]

"Hardly. I'm bored." He pulls the watch out of his pocket, playing with it. "Extremely so."

[doriath_crowned]

"That's kind of strange. There's always something going on here, after all."

[thornofcamorr]

"I seem to have been missing them. I think I need to get in mortal peril more often."

[doriath_crowned]

You are so strange, says the look one of the boys gives Locke. The other one snorts.

"Not that we have any chance of that," one of them says.

[thornofcamorr]

"None at all? How do you manage that?"