sacredpath | pc: fidelio

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[yeah. it feels like so specific a name to his brother that she wouldn't necessarily just start using it, but that's good to know.]

Thank you. It is very alarming. But it's also not terrible, to have "childhood friends." [sort of says this jokingly, but it is nice.]

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fending

Yeah. It's not.

[ though losing them might be a different story. ]

...Richie grabbed those Lord of the Rings books from the library for me, by the way. Can pass 'em on to you as I get through 'em if you want.

[ he's got kind of mixed feelings about it himself, given the other memories attached to that day, but. he was curious. even though he already vaguely knows all the major plot points. ]

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sacredpath

Oh. I wouldn't mind reading those.

[she didn't really realize those were real books. but they did sound sort of interesting. in the background, she barely knew the plot of them.]

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fending

I'll try to get through 'em fast and give you your turn, then.

There's the one called The Hobbit that comes first, sort of a prequel, and then there's three books in The Lord of the Rings proper.

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sacredpath

And they're about magic and fighting and the like? And elves somehow, even though everyone in that world was a human?

[...]

Wait, sorry, I forget what word you use for that instead.

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fending

Oh. Elda, for us.

But yeah, they are. Sort of funny how someone in a place like that can make up a world so much more similar to one of ours and call it a fantasy.

[ ... ]

This kid we knew, he had this "fantasy novel" he always carried around. Was meant to be about some kind of utopia. Place that sounded a whole lot like that world we were in... but a completely idealised version of it, obviously.