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Fëanor ([info]matterofsong) wrote in [info]expresslogs,
@ 2012-08-02 00:59:00

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Entry tags:!open, {feanor, {january cohen

WHO: Fëanor and OPEN!
WHAT: Wandering the train, brooding, having anger issues, and exploring
WHERE: The train, finally ending in the library car.
WHEN: Wednesday evening.
WARNINGS: Possible talk of violence
STATUS: Open, ongoing



Fëanor had turned off the strange device in disgust after receiving nothing but gibberish over it. These people...whatever...whoever they were knew nothing of importance, and very little of interest to him, especially when his mind was burdened by a far greater purpose. He had no need for friendship, he had no need for civility. What he did have need for was to return to his home, his sons, and his place, to avenge his father's death and retrieve the Silmarils from the dark hands of the Morgoth.

And this place was keeping him from that task, and for that had already earned his hatred and scorn.

Leaving his room, he threw back the door with such force that it clattered noisily against the wall, but he cared not. It was but a small indulgence of the fire inside of him, a fire that his mother had named before she had even seen the full extent of it.

His mother.

His heart ached as it always did at the thought of her, and how deeply she had been wronged by the ascension of his father's concubine. He would never accept Indis as the rightful Queen, or her sons as anything but bastards. She had bewitched his father, stolen his love away from where it belonged. As a husband and a father now - setting aside his estrangement with Nerdanel for the moment - he could not understand what could force a husband to turn away from his wife. He had been angry with Nerdanel - she had betrayed him by not accompanying him, by begging him to send their sons home. But beneath it all, he loved her. He always had, always would, and there would never be another. And that was as the Valar had decreed it, until Indis had ensnared his father with her darkness.

His hand tightened around the hilt of his sword in anger as his pace quickened, searching for anything on this 'train' that might give him a clue as to where he was, how he had arrived here, and how quickly he could return.

Finally, he found himself in a library, and his lips curled into a slight smile. If anything could answer the questions he had about this prison, it was books. He strode to the shelf, taking one and opening it, his eyes blurring as he flipped page, after page, after page, finding nothing but a strange, awkward script of which he could make no sense. What evil was this? Even if they did not use his own Tengwar script, he was perfectly capable of reading Rumil's letters, and many others. This...however, was nothing that he had ever seen before.

He flung the book to the floor, likely breaking the spine, before grabbing another, and flipping through it in the same way, his fury growing as it joined its sister on the floor.

What place was this??!



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[info]january_storm
2012-08-02 10:59 am UTC (link)
Jan had taken a turn off the train -- first invisible, and then in her scales -- to explore the area. She'd marked a couple of useful looking places (as near as she could tell; she wasn't precisely certain what passed for 'useful' to humans), and she was in the process of looking for someone to report the information to.

While she understood that no one was in charge, she was aware that a few people did organize things. Her intention was to find one of them and describe the area so that they could decide what, if anything, they wanted to do about it. Perhaps they were all finding the area too dangerous.

In crossing through the library, she paused as she regarded the man apparently intent on destroying the books. "Excuse me," she said gently as she stepped to retrieve the discarded books. She smoothed her hand over the broken spine before sliding them into the crook of her arm. She wasn't sure they were able to be mended, but perhaps they fell under the things the train fixed every night.

"Were you looking for something?" she prompted as she regarded him. He seemed angry, and she wondered if he was new, or had lost a friend.

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[info]matterofsong
2012-08-02 04:12 pm UTC (link)
Fëanor turned his grey eyes on her, raising an eyebrow as he watched her lift the book and attempt to soothe it. He himself had great respect for books and knowledge, but there was little use in his mind for books written in this strange and unreadable script.

"Yes," he said in a strong voice that was nonetheless soft at the moment. "I need books to tell me about this place in which I have arrived. I am trying to learn how to return to my home, but all the books in this...place are written in a script I cannot read. What language is this? It is an ugly sort of writing."

He looked into her eyes with a streak of rebellion, and dropped the book he was holding onto the ground, as if daring her to reprimand him on the matter.

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[info]january_storm
2012-08-03 01:27 am UTC (link)
"It's Common," she said before she narrowed her eyes and tried to dredge up the Common word for Common. "English," she tried. She was fairly certain that's what Common was on the train.

"You won't find the answers in the books," she continued, stepping toward him to pick up the book he'd just dropped, adding it to the ones already in her arm. "No one has solid answers. Not really. They have ... theories. Speculations. Things they've learned over their time on the train, but no answers.

"You don't go home unless the train sends you." She moved around him to put the books back onto the shelves. "I thought for a little while someone from my family was going to come for me, but ... apparently that's impossible."

With the books safely back on the shelf, Jan turned to face the man. "It isn't as pretty as Elvish," she agreed belatedly in regard to his comment on the script. "But I can read it, and I'm sure someone could teach it to you, if you ever had a desire to learn it."

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[info]matterofsong
2012-08-03 04:16 am UTC (link)
Fëanor raised an eyebrow at her curiously, his hand resting on yet another book. There were many problems and comments he had about what she said, but he would address them once his most pressing question was answered.

"You know Elvish, then? But you are not one of us - I do not think?"

Dropping his grey eyes back to the book shelf, he sighed sadly.

"I feared that might be the case, that the answers were not ones that could be found in song or story."

He shook his head, beginning to pace a little, tension clear in his shoulders and in the frantic speed of his pacing.

"It is a fascinating place, and were my issues at home less pressing, I might enjoy a sojourn here. But I must return home. There are those who are counting on me, and the evil I seek must be destroyed, the Silmarils regained, and my father's slaying avenged. There is no other choice in the matter. I must return home."

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[info]january_storm
2012-08-03 10:45 am UTC (link)
"I guess it would depend on who us was," she replied, a slight smile briefly adorning her lips. "I'm half. My dam's an Elf, but my father's a human." While she did wonder if he was from her corner of the world, she found she doubted it. Nothing about him spoke of home or anything familiar.

As he continued to talk, Jan became more certain he wasn't of her reality. Whatever a Silmaril was, it didn't exist in her world as far as she was aware. "I've heard it doesn't matter," she began, trying to summon the words to attempt to explain. "People who share a reality and are both here have said the other person never goes missing. That you're still somehow home and here as well. I don't ... particularly understand how that is possible, but it is among the more prevalent theories on the train." Which didn't mean it was true, she knew -- just that it was generally accepted.

"There isn't any way home. Unless the train sends you back, or stops there.." Though if it did stop in that reality, wouldn't there be two of him, if he'd never left? Or would the version of him on the train fade away or merge with the existing version of him? Her brow furrowed as she contemplated that before she shrugged it off. She didn't know, and it seemed beyond pointless to speculate.

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[info]matterofsong
2012-08-03 03:18 pm UTC (link)
Fëanor frowned, his grey eyes boring into her, as if she held an answer inside that she was refusing to tell him. Her words made little sense, and what sense they did make greatly displeased him. He had been kidnapped, apparently, and he did not like that idea one bit. But he would take his time to think it through, as apparently time was one thing he now had in abundance.

"Half?" he questioned. He had come to understand that there were other creatures on this train, creatures who were not Eldar and who were not the Valar. There had been whispered talk of a second children of Ilúvatar among the Valar, but he had never seen them, nor had any of his Kindred. He wondered if this was what they were. They seemed smaller, weaker, their souls less bright, but he had not had time to assess them fully. He had been concentrating far more on escaping from this prison. He wondered if there were any discussion of them in these books.

It infuriated him that he was unable to read the words within. He despised the feeling that knowledge was being kept from him - he who, among other things, was one of the most talented linguists of the Ñoldor.

"You can read this script?" he demanded. "Teach it to me, and if you wish, I can teach you the Tengwar."

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[info]january_storm
2012-08-04 12:24 am UTC (link)
Jan met his gaze evenly as he studied her. She could only imagine what he was thinking, and she didn't believe any of it was particularly positive. Still, it wasn't in her nature to shy away from a stare, and so she didn't.

"Half," she agreed, unsure what sort of confirmation or clarification he was seeking. She was almost inclined to flash her ears at him, but they weren't terribly telling. Sure, they had a slightly different shape than human ears, but nothing that exactly screamed 'hi, I'm half-Elven'. Since she had already elaborated on which half was which, she decided to leave that topic be.

"I can read it," she agreed. "We're all taught Common along with Elvish in school." As well as a few other languages, but since she hadn't met anything other than humans here, she didn't think it was relevant what else she could speak. Besides, she was rusty in most of them save Common and Elvish. "Is that your language?" She prompted. "Tengwar?" Maybe it was a history, and not a language; the context was escaping her.

"I can try to teach you. It won't happen overnight though," she cautioned him. "But ... I'll try."

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[info]matterofsong
2012-08-05 02:08 am UTC (link)
"No, the Tengwar is a script for writing Quenya, which is the name of my language. It is a script that I created, a script that makes use of many diacritic marks in order to help with ease of pronunciation."

He pulled a rather ornate pen out of his tunic.

"Do you have a piece of paper or parchment? I could show you. I would be glad to."

There was a fire in his eyes as he spoke of this; a passion. Although it might not seem it at first glance, Fëanor had a great deal of interest, passion and talent in things that had nothing to do with war.

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[info]january_storm
2012-08-05 02:18 am UTC (link)
The words were unfamiliar, but Jan was no stranger to unfamiliar words. Despite knowing Common, there were terms -- slang, usually -- that tripped her up, often. Still, from context, she could place the words as names, even if she wasn't sure she'd be able to pronounce them correctly.

Though for all that, there were plenty of names of things in her world that others would trip over.

At his request, she turned to study the room. She hadn't been here long, but she moved all the same to one of the desks. Prowling through the drawers, she finally came across a small pad of paper. Lifting it free, she glanced at it briefly, but she assumed it was fair game.

Turning toward him again, she presented him with the paper. "I don't think anyone will mind if you use this," she said.

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[info]matterofsong
2012-08-05 02:30 pm UTC (link)
He nodded his thanks for the paper, and sat at the nearest table, immediately beginning to write on the page with speed and ease. When he was finished, he handed it to her, looking up at her, his grey eyes bright.

"I am...not familiar with your language and its writing, but I can teach you the sounds, and how Quenya works. I would be glad to. Language - written and spoken - is fascinating to me."

He stood, then, going to the windows and looking out for a moment, and although he was still, there was tension in his shoulders and an unease that betrayed his inner turmoil.

"I have not always been as I am," he said - although his words were not regretful. "Much has befallen me to make me into who I have become."

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[info]january_storm
2012-08-05 08:25 pm UTC (link)
She studied the script he'd handed her, her own eyes narrowing a little as she regarded it. She couldn't really make heads or tails of it, but it was pretty all the same. "I could teach you Elvish," she answered, almost absently. "If you wanted to learn my breed of it. It wouldn't be in the least useful to you ..." Though really, neither would his language -- unless they stopped in his world. "But if you like learning languages just for the sake of learning them ..." Jan splayed her hands in a 'there you go' sort of gesture.

Granted, learning the script in the books would at least prove helpful, so there was that end of things.

She wondered a little about what seemed to be a random declaration. "If we remained the way we started, we'd all be squalling infants," she pointed out. "Everyone is shaped by events in their life."

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[info]matterofsong
2012-08-06 04:22 am UTC (link)
"Yes, and my experiences have, perhaps, been more cruel than some."

The Death of his mother, the first of the Eldar in Valinor to die. The remarriage of his father, making him the first - and only - of the Eldar to have a stepmother and a broken family. The problems he had suffered with his ambitious younger half-brother. Morgoth's lies...the theft of the Silmarils and the murder of Finwë...

And the fact that Nerdanel had refused to accompany him, which had hurt just as deeply as any of the others, although his pride refused to allow him to acknowledge that.

"Yes," he said in a voice that was perhaps a little too rough with emotion. "And they have made me stronger."

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[info]january_storm
2012-08-06 11:18 am UTC (link)
Jan wasn't sure if she expected an elaboration or not, but when none came, she reasoned it was none of her business anyway. And now he was stuck on a train ... so that couldn't be easy, either. She had trouble acclimating to it, and she imagined she wasn't the first, or only one, to have trouble adapting to a life on the train.

Unsure exactly what to say to him and unsure they statements even merited a response, Jan simply nodded. "They tend to," she tried. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, they say."

Shifting her weight slightly, she glanced to the book shelves again before he gaze strayed to him. "So," she said in an attempt to get things back on track. "When you've had a chance to settle in ... send me a message or track me down, and ... we can start language lessons."

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[info]matterofsong
2012-08-06 02:42 pm UTC (link)
His eyes burned as he stared out the window, lost in his world, in his trials, in the griefs that had befallen him. They were many, and he resented the fact that the Valar had been the cause of all of them.

Her words called him back to the present and he acknowledged her words with a slight nod of his head.

"Yes. I will do that. It has been an honor to meet you, my lady, and I look forward to our later meetings."

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[info]january_storm
2012-08-06 10:52 pm UTC (link)
Jan nodded, and reasoned it was better to leave him to his thoughts, anyway. "Same," she replied. Regarding him briefly, she studied him before she turned away. Hopefully the rest of the books would be safe, and she thought their next meeting was going to be ... interesting.

Turning away, she headed toward the door. Shaking her head slightly, she continued on the way she'd been headed before she'd gotten distracted. She hoped he settled in all right, and she reasoned she'd hear sooner or later.

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