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"However much faster you'd grow up there you are not grown up yet and even in a safe place kids shouldn't be by themselves trying to bring themselves up. I was terrified that you were going to die and it would be my fault."

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"It'd be my fault if I died."
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"If I were not here," she says, "you would grow all the way up, and then various disasters would happen but you would have grown up, first."

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"And killed people horribly second!"

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"That doesn't mean that if you get killed now I have made things better."

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"Yes it does!"

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"No it doesn't. You haven't done anything like that at all and you do not deserve to die and I love you and I could never forgive myself if you died because of me."

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"I am trying to get you all to stop loving me, haven't you noticed! It doesn't help anything!"

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"You're trying to -?"
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"You're going to eventually anyway, so I'd rather it was now."

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"That's not a foregone conclusion."

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"Please go away."

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She goes away.

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The Valar announce that they're temporarily suspending teleportation of minors.

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That's pretty reasonable of them.

Fëanáro's stuck in the palace, which means he can't come to her if he changes his mind about wanting her to go away. But she doesn't want to intrude. She swings by once a day around lunchtime to ask him how he's doing and if he's terse or annoyed she turns right back around.
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He's miserable, though it's not directed primarily at her.

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Does he want to talk about it?

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He does not.

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Okay.

She picks her way through her work. She doesn't slow down, the only thing worse than being this upset would be letting the upset swallow her for a Year.
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Fëanáro gets permission to leave the palace. Fëanáro starts teaching his classes and doing his metalworking again. Fëanáro is so unhappy.

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Does he want to talk about it? Will he let her hug him?

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He will.

"I don't actually want you to stop loving me I just want to stop being so afraid of it."
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Snuggle. "Why are you afraid of it?"

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"Because it's going to hurt a lot."

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"- what's 'it'?"

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