there are tall elves and small elves, nice elves and... (introduction)

[mostcraftiest]

Damn fools. Fools, all of them! If they think they will last an hour under that fool Orodreth - well. A slight change in plans only. Though the desertion of his own son - that stung, a little. He should have been firmer with the boy. Spent more time with him here, perhaps, rather than leaving him to tinker in his smithy at whatever little projects

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[time_willdecide]

At the shout, two redheads out walking look at each other, and start toward the noise. It will probably won't be a familiar site, two redheaded brothers walking with an arm around each other, but it won't be one he's seen recently. "Kurvo?" One calls almost tentatively. This is the one brother they haven't seen or heard of being at the mansion ever. "That you?"

[mostcraftiest]

He knows that voice. Sort of. But he doesn't. And when he turns around it's probably the first time ever he's looked so disconcerted, aside from maybe when Daddy died. He goes white, simply staring, because that is impossible.

And here's something even he doesn't know what to do with. Left the second one behind a long time ago and hasn't thought about it since...

[time_willdecide]

One shifts a little awkwardly. That's probably Telvo. "Hello, brother. It's been a while."

[mostcraftiest]

A little awkwardly? ...silence. What. What. Trying to regain his footing, but that is proving to be an awkward endeavor to say the least. His precious sense of order!

----he switches his eyes to Pityo, not quite sure what he's looking for, and doesn't answer for the moment. So much not sense that he doesn't know where to start.

(Slowly, he is starting to realize that maybe things are worse and weirder than he thought. this is not a good realization.)

[time_willdecide]

Pityo's grip on his twin shifts subtly into protectiveness. "Hi," he adds, when Kurvo's eyes move to him. "I'd wondered if you'd end up here."

[mostcraftiest]

..."End up here." He doesn't quite sound blank. Confused, maybe. He wouldn't like to put it that way. "And where is that, exactly?"

Let's keep it relatively simple for the moment. And let's pretend it's not really, really disconcerting to have a dead sibling right there augh.

[time_willdecide]

"See that house over there?" Pityo jerks a thumb back towards it. "People call it the Mansion. That's 'here,' and no one really knows how to leave."

[mostcraftiest]

Curufin does not like the sound of this. It probably shows. "'No one really knows how to leave.'" His voice, dubious, makes the repeated words a bit ominous. As if he would threaten the house itself into doing his bidding. "I see. "What is it, then, some kind of - prison?"

[time_willdecide]

"A comfortable prison most of the time though often dangerous, but it's not a bad comparison." And if his hold on Telvo tightens a little, nothing shows in his voice.

[mostcraftiest]

If it's a prison, it can be escaped. "A prison built by who?" And - well, if he notices that, it's hardly meriting comment. Even if he doesn't get it and is still roughly pretending that Telvo is not there or at the least that he can't see the other twin.

[time_willdecide]

"No one knows. People find themselves here by accident, no one's been able to lean who created this place or why."

[mostcraftiest]

"If it is a prison, it can be escaped," with reasonably calm assurance, though his lips thin a little in irritation. He'd like to make sure whoever's idea this was gets punished, and not before too long. "We have business to attend to." Oaths to fulfill, people to murder, all that.

[time_willdecide]

"Don't you think people have tried? If you think you can figure something out that no one's done before, good luck, let us know how it goes."

[mostcraftiest]

"You aren't concerned about being trapped here?" A bit sharply, aren't you forgetting something?

[time_willdecide]

"Do you think I want to be here?" Especially after what's just happened. Telvo is still silent, pressed against his Twin's side. "But if there was a way out, we'd have found it by now. SOmeone would have." He sighs. "Some people...some people can go. But to no place that would be more familiar to us than this. At least we have family here."

[mostcraftiest]

That still doesn't make sense! It doesn't! This is bothersome! He glances at Telvo, though, just briefly, and decides not to ask. "And how is that?" Still sharply, because he does not like being unsettled. "Perhaps news travels slowly, but I would nonetheless have heard if everyone had vanished."