Terre Haute expedition: Camping Day 1

[lord_wizard]

[It's been a more or less uneventful day of travel for the expedition team. Not unexpected for the first leg of such a trip, and with any luck, it will stay that way.

As the sun starts to get low in the sky, Felix signals the group with a sharp whistle to stop, shortly after he feels the change. They've entered the Dead Zone. That sudden loss of power for anyone used to that sort of thing. Not an easy thing to adjust to, at first.]

"We've crossed into the border of the Dead Zone now. We should stop here for the night. Those of you with experience, help set up camp as needed. And I recommend a few of you working out a watch schedule. You never can tell what might be out here."

SET UP | CAMPFIRE | IN THE NIGHT

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[inafadingcrown]

[She smiles and shakes her head] No, thank you.

That is what brings me here, at least.

[wishmadeinfire]

The last time we received answers, though, we came away with as many questions. But that is the nature of revelation, is it not?

[inafadingcrown]

So it is. Yet even the acquisition of new questions is productive.

[wishmadeinfire]

And frustrating, never forget frustrating. But I suppose they continue to spur us on too.

[inafadingcrown]

[A little chuckle] It is fortunate that I have a stubborn temperament.

[wishmadeinfire]

I think we all might be.

_{[ He smiled at her and reached out, touching her hand briefly. ]}

I am glad to have you with us, Galadriel.

[inafadingcrown]

[She smiles back, something a little more genuine than the "don't be concerned about me" smile she had been wearing.]

As I am glad to have you here.

[wishmadeinfire]

_{[ He smiled back, nodding his head in thanks for the compliment. ]}

This is our first adventure together, isn't it?

[inafadingcrown]

Our second, rather. Do you not recall explaining that I had nothing to fear from Svitana?

[wishmadeinfire]

Oh my, yes! I had near forgotten, since you seem so unconcerned about him now!

_{[ He laughed, shaking his head. ]}

That was well over a year ago now, was it not?

[inafadingcrown]

It was. Strange, isn't it? I never believed I would be here for so long.

[wishmadeinfire]

Nor I. But yet, time passes. Three years now, isn't it? It is so easy to stop counting the passing days and just... be here.

[inafadingcrown]

It is two for me. [She sighs.] Perhaps it might be, were I not so skilled at remembering insults to my person. [And she does count a kidnapping as an insult.]

[wishmadeinfire]

_{[ He chuckles, but it's darker this time. ]}

I suppose those have all faded into such a long string of indignities that I chose not to count them in order to spare my pride. But that is a very mannish response, I think.

[inafadingcrown]

It is precisely my pride that makes me count them, I think.

[wishmadeinfire]

And so we see the difference between man and woman.

_{[ He chuckled and bowed his head to her. ]}

And perhaps the wisdom of many years.

[inafadingcrown]

I am not entirely certain my way is the better one, however.

[wishmadeinfire]

Always humble, Galadriel. I admire it, about you.

[inafadingcrown]

[She laughs] Aware of the troubles my pride has caused me, more like. It is something with which I have always struggled, in truth.

[wishmadeinfire]

Being humble? I suppose it would be a difficult thing. Our crowns have a habit of carving it away from us, no?