I can tell you from experience that it is possible to live with any number of far less comfortable forms, at least for a century or two. I'm glad to have no need to be a Lalafell again.
[Though that would be preferable to becoming anything that might be called a daemon, surely.
The sound of his true name forces a hitch in the way he fingers their playing field, a shock just enough that his fingers lose their grip on a pawn, which falls over with the faintest of clatters.]
...It is always strange to hear that name again.
[The comment seems more to himself than anyone else. Expression still unsettled, but in an unnegative way, he rights the piece.]
It is I who is fortunate, for you and others. This place has brought me more companionship than many, many long millennia before.
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[Though that would be preferable to becoming anything that might be called a daemon, surely.
The sound of his true name forces a hitch in the way he fingers their playing field, a shock just enough that his fingers lose their grip on a pawn, which falls over with the faintest of clatters.]
...It is always strange to hear that name again.
[The comment seems more to himself than anyone else. Expression still unsettled, but in an unnegative way, he rights the piece.]
It is I who is fortunate, for you and others. This place has brought me more companionship than many, many long millennia before.