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[roseofthetyrells]

[brightly] Please leave your message after the beep! I look forward to hearing from you. Goodbye!

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[so_dark_a_road]

We will be relieved as well.

Do you need anything? Is your roommate taking care of you?

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[roseofthetyrells]

Thank you.

I could use some more company. And Daenerys is helping, but she doesn't know what it's like to die.

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[so_dark_a_road]

You can come to the Elfhouse anytime you like, and stay as long as you like. We can come and visit you at your house, too, if that is all right with Daenerys.

It does help to know that others know what you've been through, does it not? And we Elves have all experienced death in our own world.

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[roseofthetyrells]

I'm sure it would be fine with her. How could anyone object to your presence?

Yes. It helps. I can't tell you how much. This is--different from my first death. The first one, I knew it was coming. This death. . . even during the height of the Null invasion, I felt safe here.

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Chuckle. ] You never know. Maybe Elves and Targaryns are like ice and fire? [ But he really doesn't think there would be a problem either. Besides, more like fire and fire. ]

Yes, it is very unpleasant to be surprised in that fashion. To believe you are safe, and then to experience sudden death. I am sorry that that happened to you, and I will do all in my power to help you now.

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[roseofthetyrells]

...there was a poem Matt told me about. Something about ice and fire and desire. I wish I remembered the whole thing. [she can't imagine any objections]

Yes. That's it precisely. I thought I was safe, but then I wasn't. And I would appreciate your assistance.

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Smile ] Those are popular symbols amongst bards and poets! One of my friends in another world quoted this one to me, by a man named Robert Frost:

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.

[ Chuckle ] Wise man.

You will have all the assistance we can give. We cherish you.

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[roseofthetyrells]

[excitedly] Yes, that's it, that's the poem exactly! He quoted it to me during that entire mess with the Null.

And I thank you. And cherish you in return.

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[so_dark_a_road]

Matt must have been well-read. Not everybody knows that poet.

[ He smiles in return. ]

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[roseofthetyrells]

Matt is blind, but he can read using something called braille. It's a series of dots set out into an alphabet.

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Thinks about that. Yes, that would work! ] And every letter is represented by a pattern of dots? Are they punched into the paper, or carved into a wooden surface?

I suppose there must be many books in braille, in his world? I hope there are, for a mind that loves the Frost poem must love literature in general.

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[roseofthetyrells]

It's all punched into paper. He reads the raised dots with his fingers.

The classics were. He apparently had a beastly time getting law school to accommodate his needs.

Sorry, I'm coming back to this one late! Want to wrap?

[so_dark_a_road]

He sounds both educated and skilled!

That is a great pity, that he had to persuade them. In my world, we had law-speakers, and they were literate. But their work depended mostly on their ability to study and remember a body of precedent, and to speak eloquently before the assembly. I'm assuming your Matt has similar abilities and talents. And good luck to him!

And to you, now and when you return to him.

Sure, works for me!

[roseofthetyrells]

He is. He's wonderful.

Yes, that's very much like Matt described. He had to study very hard to get where he is in his world. And he won a very important case, one against a crimelord in New York City.

Thank you for your well wishes.