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[inafadingcrown]

[The video feed flips on, focusing (after a few seconds of jostling around) on Galadriel, sitting on the steps of the Initiative Hold, her sheathed sword beside her. Having just finished training, she’s attired appropriately, wearing a simple dress and with her hair braided and wound about her head- displaying those pointed ears quite prominently for those who might have missed them before.]

I grow weary of the constant grey here. It is overlong since I have heard a running stream or seen the sunlight filtered through the forest canopy.

Tell me, those of you who have journeyed outside this city: does greenery yet remain in this world? It would do my heart well even to hear of it.

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[toldyouso]

We have stories, but before now, all of the people I knew with pointed ears were aliens.

[It's cool. Some of his best friends are aliens.]

[inafadingcrown]

It seems there are a great many places in which my kind are but the stuff of myth and legends. [But she doesn't seem bothered by it.]

We are all alien here, in a sense, are we not?

[toldyouso]

I'm actually the alien in my universe, too. At least in the parts of it where I spend all my time. I'm from a place nobody'd heard of until maybe 50 years ago.

[He snorts.]

You get used to the hick jokes after a while.

[inafadingcrown]

"Hick jokes?" [Said in that tone used mostly by people's grandparents when encountering slang- which...actually is precisely what is happening here.]

[toldyouso]

[Oops. He takes a second to consider how to explain it without using any more slang.]

Do people from cities make fun of people from the countryside for being unsophisticated where you're from?

[So...Pete is saying...he's a hobbit? Not that he realizes it.]

[inafadingcrown]

Some do, yes. [/insert a joke about the Mirkwood elves here] And that is a "hick?" One who is unsophisticated?

[toldyouso]

It's got a connotation of being ignorant and provincial, too.

[Pete clearly isn't bothered. "Earth sucks" jokes are some of the mildest flak he takes, and he doesn't identify with the planet, anyway.]

If they weren't picking on one thing, it'd be another.

[His team is very functional.]

[inafadingcrown]

I had the problem in reverse, it seems. When I first began to spend time among the Sindar, I was often accused of arrogance or believing myself above those around me.

[Oh, the woes of being an exile from literal holy lands. It didn't help that a lot of her family were assholes.]

[toldyouso]

[Hang on, he's getting his tiny violin.]

Did you?

[inafadingcrown]

[Eh, not bothered by it now. Then? Yes, she was.]

Not at all. I suffered, I believe, from association with some of my kin.