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Gelgannel: *sorting papers, and generally putting the affairs of the city in order*

Idril: *humming as she comes near, enjoying the nice weather*

Gelgannel: *poking at his typewriter, in a half-hearted attempt to learn how to use it*

Idril: *sees him and grins, coming closer* hey. Hard at work, I see

Gelgannel: your father isn't in, princess. He's off running business. *doesn't look up at her, is doing WORK okay he's hitting random keys to see what happens*

Idril: *quite pretty today and leans against the desk* what if I wanted to see you?

Gelgannel: *looks up and sort of fullbody pauses when he sees her* ...what would you like with me?

Idril: well, it's a nice day out and I thought we could take a walk. If you're free.

Gelgannel: you came all the way over here to ask me for a walk?

Idril: ...yes. Is that bad?

Gelgannel: no. *shakes his head and gets up* I can use a break, but I need food more than a walk. Care to change it to a snack?

Idril: *laughs* sure. *takes his arm* where to?

Gelgannel: not very far, just the cafe across the road. I've got to finish writing up the notes from the last council meeting

Idril: okay. I could have a snack. My treat today. *grins*

Gelgannel: how very kind *grins and heads down with her, skipping the lift*

Idril: *happy to take the stairs and chats about her new cat*

Gelgannel: you've got a cat? I like them, we always had a ship's cat or two back when I come from

Idril: she's so pretty! You should come see her sometime

Gelgannel: sure. You like pet owning?

Idril: yeah, it's nice to have a constant friend

Gelgannel: that sounds so lonely. Don't you have people in this city?

Idril: people like servants?

Gelgannel: no, friends

Idril: well sure, I have Yaban and you and a few others. But Bainil is around all the time

Gelgannel: good enough, I guess. I keep a fish

Idril: *smiles at him* I don't remember seeing it when I was in your room

Gelgannel: he's in my bedroom, on my desk. A little koi, or whatever you call them here.

Idril: I was in your room! I don't remember him. What's his name?

Gelgannel: 'fish'

Idril: you have to give him a real name!

Gelgannel: that is his name! He likes it

Idril: *snickers* okay. *finds a good table at the cafe*

Gelgannel: wait. He might not be a koi. He's something like a koi.

Gelgannel: small, glittery, ornamental?

Gelgannel: I got it at the spring festival last year

Idril: Oh! He must be very pretty *smiles at him*

Gelgannel: well, if you like startled looking fish.

Gelgannel: your father made me get him. There was a booth at the last spring festival to catch them, and he said trying would lighten me up. I, uh, succeeded.

Idril: *laughs* Did it lighten you up?

Gelgannel: no, and apparently it lives for a decade or more

Gelgannel: don't let your father try that again

Idril: *snickers* I won't. You could always give it away

Gelgannel: who'd want it?

Idril: I don't know. But surely someone in the castle would want a fish

Gelgannel: Hmph. Too much work. I'll keep Fish

Idril: As you wish. *grins and nibbles on her snack*

Gelgannel: damn straight. *eats his sandwich* How's your Yaban?

Idril: *smiles* He's good! We went to the zoo again the other day. He's really quite fun!

Gelgannel: he's a lot smaller than you, isn't he?

Idril: A fair bit. But I think that's a human trait

Gelgannel: It is. I usually got some absurd nickname like 'Stretch' when I was on ships

Idril: Did you often have to work among them?

Gelgannel: mhm. Humans were where the commerce was, officially I was a myth

Idril: *confused look* A myth?

Gelgannel: as far as they were concerned, elves and dwarves never existed

Idril: why?

Gelgannel: don't know. I was born a *long* time after that came to be.

Idril: Huh. ...I should see if Yaban knows! How odd that we'd become myths!

Gelgannel: well, most of you died or went back to Valinor. Just my people stayed, and... well, a long time passed.

Idril: Do you think you went into hiding?

Gelgannel: me? In hiding? I just didn't say I was an elf. They thought I was an 'african'.

Idril: I meant your people. What's an 'african'?

Gelgannel: oh! Yes, lots of mobile settlements, keeping to ourselves, and staying in areas with similar people. Africa's a continent in my time. I think the Haradrim who show up here populated it.

Gelgannel: I mean moved to it. That's the odd thing. The maps here are nothing like the maps I knew

Gelgannel: and I knew maps. Of course, sometimes they had 'here be dragons' on them...

Idril: *fascinated* That's amazing! You wouldn't happen to have any of that information here now, would you?

Gelgannel: sorry. All I came here with was my compass, my clothes, and my wages.

Gelgannel: I'm just glad that I got a classical education back with my people, so that I could read the language here. Well, once I got past the language evolution.

Idril: *smiles at his comment about wages, 'cause that was cute, and nods* Was your language very different?

Gelgannel: languages don't stay stable as time marches on. *shrugs* Reading up on things here, that's part of what Feanor's issue was with everyone before everything went south

Idril: My grandfather has a lot of issues. *takes a bite of her fruit* Anyway, I'd like to learn more about your time and past.

Gelgannel: I'm not sure you do.

Gelgannel: I come from a nasty, brutish time. *finishes off his drink*

Idril: *sits back, looking at him a few moments* So? I want to learn about you. It's not as if I haven't experienced brutish times myself

Gelgannel: Okay, you know about genocide, I'll give you that

Idril: *nods* so you see. I can handle it

Gelgannel: *sighs and gives her a rundown of Earth from his three centuries of living in it*

Idril: *spends a lot of it going "o.o"*

Gelgannel: aaand that's where it stood by the time I ended up here. *rests his chin in his hand* happy you asked?

Idril: ...you really saw all of that?

Gelgannel: yes.

Idril: But you don't hate humans...

Gelgannel: no. Why should I?

Idril: They did so many awful things!

Gelgannel: Yes, they're one of those things you have to take on an individual basis

Idril: *nods* I guess they could've hated us for granddad Feanor, too.

Gelgannel: see? I miss the ocean, but this isn't so bad.

Idril: Would you go to it now if you could?

Gelgannel: I can't answer that right now. Ask me again in another year

Idril: what's stopping you now?

Gelgannel: haven't decided.

Idril: ahh. Okay. *smiles and sips her drink*

Gelgannel: I like thinking things over. God knows I have the time

Idril: True. No need to rush.

Gelgannel: however, right now I don't. *pats her hand and gets up* I need to get back to work. I'll drop by your rooms to see your cat soon

Idril: *smiles up at him* I'd like that.

Gelgannel: you know where to find me if you want introduced to Fish. *heads back to the tower, waving*

Idril: *waves back and watches him go, enjoying watching how his body moves as he walks, finding she's still awfully attracted to him*

...I really do like him still. Stupid hormones. We're just supposed to be friends with him, body. Not enjoying his!