Two wizards and two soldiers appear in the desert, a few feet away from a tired slave caravan.
They nod at each other and disappear again.
Two wizards and two soldiers appear in the desert, a few feet away from a tired slave caravan.
They nod at each other and disappear again.
"Okay. Tell her "'Recommend parking car. Anticipate uncontrollable interplanar transit within hours. Maitimë is here, also alternate universe yous. We can read written responses; outgoing messages more difficult."
"It says, 'Thanks for the warning. I assume you have some reason to be terse and I await more explanation. I'll drive slowly if it takes long enough that I need to move on to get water, but have enough for a few hours. I have a crippling music allergy and prefer very cold environments if convenient. Tell Rirosseth I love her and I've been okay and got reincarnated somehow on a new planet.'"
"Maybe, although I don't think leaving her a statue until Annie appears is a particularly expensive mistake in this case."
"I don't have experience with this place. People who come out of Hell are usually - I mean, motivated to not have to go back, but not like that unless they've no prospects of avoiding it."
"I think our kind might be different enough from the magic one that I shouldn't make confident predictions." She looks at 'Magic'.
"I'm honestly most confused about the exception for Annie. That's not usually an exception. Even for married people, and they couldn't have been."
"Elves can marry Dwarves in my Arda, but they'd still generally look married and - Rirosseth - didn't."
"There are little software add-ons called blessings, and some are specifically marriage blessings that married Elves download to our chips, and one of the ones nearly everyone picks makes it possible to tell by looking that the person is married. Dwarves don't have chips but Elves who want to marry them can still get that one anyway, they just can't get the one that boosts osanwë range or a lot of the others because Dwarves don't have osanwë."
"In my world marriage is a magical soul bond that comes with enhanced abilities related to the other person, common ones being things like the ability to hear the other person whenever they sing, or feel when they're in pain, or always know what direction they're in, or touch them by touching your own arm. Being married is visible. Marriage happens automatically the first time a man and a woman have sex. It doesn't usually happen between couples where one member is a human, but it can happen if they believe it will work, in which case only the Elf experiences marriage but the marriage is normal from their side.
You can be married to more than one person. You can marry someone against their will, if they don't kill themself. It seems conceivable to me that there's a way for two people of the same gender to marry.
She wasn't married."