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FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Thranduil
RECIPIENT: A L L
WHAT: Please don't riot about the phylacteries. (yet)
WHEN: Post-negotiations.
WHERE: Gallows!
NOTES: After this. Specifically, after Iorveth does a property damage and before anyone else can try that.

[ thranduil's voice is tight, if still somehow pleasant: ]

I understand that there are a great number of questions and concerns at the moment regarding the Inquisition's proposed policy of phylacteries for Rifters.

If there are concerns that anyone would wish to make known through official channels, the Research Division has been appointed to handle the research of this new, proposed policy. [ very pointed stressing. ] My office is where it has always been, and any concerns should be turned into the box reserved for correspondence of that nature.

I would remind all Rifters that we are yet considered a single unit. [ remember the curfew? ] That poor behavior will affect all of us- indeed, anyone currently afflicted with a Shard. I would advise them that this is never as true as it is now, and that consequences for actions taken in the heat of the moment are the same as those made when rational.

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The proposal is intrusive. If they desire reason(s) to trust us, can they not contact us personally? (Chains come in many forms and he will not wear any easily.)

We have all served loyally in our own way since our arrival. It would pain me greatly to see our earnest efforts repaid thusly.

I agree. (He grits his teeth, face pale.) I cannot accept being bound again.

Patience, Maedhros.

The Dark Lord lived within my borders, and my kingdom did not fall. I will not allow this to be our ruin.

(He can feel the shackles, the chains, weighing him down or holding him tight against the side of a cliff. The stench of Dark creatures became part of him; he could never be rid of it. They tortured him in so many ways... They burned him, cut him, removing the majority of one ear when they sliced through his hair.

He can feel all of what was done to him in that hell and it is difficult for him to pull himself out of those memories.)

It would not be ours. (It would be theirs, his mind concludes.)

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Galadriel would make sure of it, to say nothing of you and your cousin.

Undoubtedly. For now, I will show restraint.

I will not strain your patience. We will have a solution shortly.

I pray that is so for all of our sakes.

I won't do this. I won't research this.

[Mal's voice is controlled, and there's the faint crackle of lightening in the background.]

I won't let them use blood magic to hurt you.

Hína, do not endanger yourself for my sake. I can handle pain if you are safe.

(She is innocent in his eyes and he will protect her - even if it means submitting himself to blood magic.)

This could kill you, Maedros! Rip you apart from the inside out! We don't know what the effects of blood magic are on the shards! It's dangerous and stupid and I can't believe we're risking lives for the sake of security.

I am not so weak as to succumb to foul magic. (But she does have a point. There really is no telling how bad the effects would be.) This will not stand. I trust that my kin will fight against it too.

Don't agree to it. Don't agree to any of it. I .... hm. No. That won't work it's just the same thing but without blood.

What are you considering?

Tracking spells are ... complex to begin with. That's why they used blood magic - it was a short cut. You use the spell to bind an object to a person and the easiest way to do that is with blood. I'm just wondering why we can't cast it on objects instead? Like maybe if Rifters are out in the field, we could have a tracking spell on their crystals.

[Stops, and sharply exhales.] Maker's Breath -- why not just put trackers on EVERYONE's crystals? It's fair, it's non-obtrusive, and if you want to ... you know, do things that you don't want people to put their nose into ... you can just leave your crystal in your room.

The problem with that is we have already given our loyalty to the Inquisition in order to obtain the crystals. As such, to me, putting a tracking device on them seems like overkill. You either trust those who swear loyalty to you or you do not.

(He will fight for freedom. He can't agree to being collared and leashed.)

Blood magic is evil work. Useful, perhaps, if you can overlook how incredibly intrusive it is, but evil nonetheless.

Uhm, what?

[Hold on now.]

What do you mean you gave your loyalty to get a crystal? These are standard equipment for anyone who works with the Inquisition. Did they make you take some weird vow or something?

[Highly Suspicious Daughter Is Suspicious.]

Standard equipment for those who work with the Inquisition. In order to do so, we must be trusted on some level. If we were to change loyalty and aid another group, do you think they would let us keep the crystal?

(He doubts it highly.)

....all right that's just idiotic. The Other Side is the giant magister arsehole!

[Which is to say, their paranoia is overrated.]

There are always more than two sides in any conflict. You can always choose to stand alone.

Well, I agree with that. There's enough of us 'Third Party' to prove your theory. [She snorts.] Great, just another reason for both sides to resent the third. But is it waffling when you don't like what either side is preaching?

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