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Gift first, dinner later (Closed to Glaurnaneth)

Feb 12, 2015 12:56

Timed to today and fast forward to Valentine's Day (evening?)I have the dress for Glaurnaneth. I know I should leave it by the inside door, but instead I choose to have it delivered by the hotel staff. It's wrapped in a box and I hope she likes it. I'm fairly certain it will fit, since she told me she wears size 8. There were so many red dresses ( Read more... )

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Re: Valentine's date glaurnaneth March 9 2015, 02:03:56 UTC

Glaurnaneth remains silent a couple of paces before she answers. "The meat he served was human flesh."

Re: Valentine's date faramir_hurin March 9 2015, 02:22:17 UTC

It takes a moment for what she said to register. I stop dead.

"What?" She didn't just say...

Re: Valentine's date glaurnaneth March 9 2015, 02:26:36 UTC

"Doctor Lecter shared his ceremonial consumption of human flesh with us," Glaurnaneth clarifies.

Re: Valentine's date faramir_hurin March 9 2015, 02:33:10 UTC

I can only look at her. Ceremonial consumption?

"It is..." I don't know if it's religious. "In his world, people eat human flesh?"

In mine we do not. We don't.

Re: Valentine's date glaurnaneth March 9 2015, 02:35:30 UTC

"Very few, but he was part of one such small brotherhood, he said, that does it a few times a year for ceremonial purposes."

Re: Valentine's date faramir_hurin March 9 2015, 02:52:33 UTC

So some do. I've never heard of such a thing before and I find it reprehensible. People have eaten human flesh out of dire necessity and I suppose I can understand that. Choosing to do it for whatever reason is so foreign to me that I don't know what to think.

"I ate human flesh." I didn't know, but that doesn't change it. "We do not do such things."

Not where I come from. Only orcs eat human flesh. They eat their own dead. Men do not.

"I..." I feel ill though I know that will help nothing, change nothing.

Re: Valentine's date glaurnaneth March 9 2015, 03:11:43 UTC

Glaurnaneth looks to him in concern. "You are unhappy. Forgive me, my love. I should not have told you on this special night."

Re: Valentine's date faramir_hurin March 9 2015, 03:17:54 UTC

I'm not sure if she should have told me ever. But she has and I know now.

"I..." I don't know what to do. "I will go to the Ribbon. Perhaps Castiel can help with this."

He is very old and has seen much. I meant no ill, did not mean to do such a wrong.

"I need a few minutes to think, if you do not mind." Perhaps stopped in the streets is not the best place to do it, but I haven't much presence of mind right now--I'm just reeling.

The Ribbon. I can get some help with this.

Re: Valentine's date glaurnaneth March 9 2015, 03:45:39 UTC

She guides him a couple of steps to the side, in case one of those who use vehicles should happen down this road. After she gets him to a safe(r) place, she steps back away from him, watching him.

Perhaps only the corners of her eyes show her complete distress.

Well, the corners of her eyes and the way her tail holds completely still behind her back.

Re: Valentine's date faramir_hurin March 9 2015, 03:59:41 UTC

"He had us share a ceremony with him." I'm trying to understand why. "What did he do that for?"

He must have known how... deviant different his habits are from most others. He didn't tell us. I'm trying to stay calm and manage mostly because I can't believe it.

"I'm going to go to the Ribbon tomorrow." I said before that I would go. "What am I supposed to do now?"

Re: Valentine's date glaurnaneth March 9 2015, 04:47:45 UTC

For all that she was alive, she does her best to be a gold statue, keeping as still as she is able. "What does your heart say?"

Re: Valentine's date faramir_hurin March 9 2015, 15:18:23 UTC

I do not need to consider long.

"It says that I have been done a great wrong." I did not know. I would not have gone, would never have chosen such an evil.

"Glaurnaneth." I turn to her and move to hold her. I cannot help that my eyes are tearing.

Re: Valentine's date glaurnaneth March 9 2015, 15:27:21 UTC

She steps in and embraces him fiercely. "Oh, my love..." she murmurs into his ear. She wraps her arms and tail around him as gently as if he were a babe in her arms, to hold, warm and protect.

Re: Valentine's date faramir_hurin March 9 2015, 15:34:03 UTC

I do not think that I have ever been more glad of her warmth and solidity. She is as solid as living gold and I need that very much now.

"I will seek help for this. I've never considered such a thing could happen to me." Considering the fears I have had, this is not something that ever occurred to me.

I hold her for a time, then my arms loosen.

"Somehow I will put this behind me." I have recovered from death: I can recover from this.

Re: Valentine's date glaurnaneth March 9 2015, 19:38:26 UTC

"I am sorry," the Dragon murmurs into his ear while the embrace is still close. "Had I known this would distress you so much, I would have stopped you from eating it."

Re: Valentine's date faramir_hurin March 10 2015, 03:26:09 UTC

"Thank you for that. You could not have known how wrong it is in my world." Not with Doctor Lecter having ceremonies as he does. Perhaps she thought that we do, too.

I take a deep breath. It's still not entirely real. My stomach is a bit upset and my legs feel as though I might fall. Of all the horrible things that have happened, or could have happened, this is nothing I've ever even considered.

"I'm not quite ready to go on." I need a few more minutes at least. "Did anyone else there know?"

How could I tell them?

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