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[Galadriel (or Artanis, as she now thinks of herself) suddenly found herself in a room that was totally unfamiliar to her. What’s even stranger is that she had no memory of how she got there. She finds the journal fairly quickly and flips through it, but it does little to assuage her fears.

When she dictates, it’s not the calm, practiced dictation of Galadriel (although there are hints of it in there), but rather the voice of a frightened young girl, trying to sound far more intimidating than she is capable of being.]

I know not who brought me here, nor why, but know that my father and my brothers will not stand for this. I am Artanis, daughter of the High King Finarfin. If you release me immediately, they may be persuaded to show you mercy.

[With that she tucks the journal under her arm and sets out to explore, first the room she arrived in, and then the castle. Unlike on her initial exploration, however, her movements are slightly hesitant, timid, and more obviously marked by fear. ]

[ooc: She will be running into Rin in their shared room, I believe, but after that will be roaming the castle. Feel free to encounter the mini-elf or to answer her over the journal.]

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Mayhaps yourself? [A glance at Helen's strange clothing.] You will forgive me if I say that you seem quite unlike any I have known.

There are those whom would say the same of you. Simply being we are of different times, and of different places. [ Do you have odd castles? ] But I can answer your query, if provided with somewhere to begin?

[Sort of? Define odd. Define castle. She asks the most obvious question first.]

You are of the Second Born, are you not? Of the race of Man? [Humans are new and exciting. Sorry, Helen.]

I am, yes. [ Mostly, at least, but she'll leave the abnormal explanation for a little later - let's start simple. And for you, dear, she'll be the most honest ]

The coming of your kind is foretold in my world. It is only since my arrival here that I have met any of you. [She will appreciate that.]

Then I am honoured to share that with you. Did the tales say much of us? [ Wrong circumstances but indulge her curiosity of the men of your world? ]

[She shakes her head.] Merely that you will be. And that you will be mortal.

How mortal? [ She gave her a curious smile, a very knowing one. Oh, she was not most humans ]

[She has a inkling of that. But it's harder to sense that Helen's abnormal now that she doesn't have a solid base line of what "humans" should feel like.]

The tales do not tell. [Have that knowing smile back] Yet I sense that whatever they would say, you are an exception.

Your feeling on that would be right. I am mortal, [ and she's died previously to prove that, and nearly many oter times ] but there is something which I share with your people. [ Just going to drop those breadcrumbs ]

[Elves can be slain too, it's not that kind of immortality. But at that hint she's just going to power up that gaze a little bit and focus more on Helen. It takes longer than it normally would and you can see the concentration in her face, but eventually she puts it together and grins.]

You are unfading.

[ Oh that concentration makes her smile; she knows that she'll get it, even younger and perhaps less powerful she still has the hints of the kind of person that she'll become - it's that curiosity, and intellect ]

I am. An oddity among men, also.

May I ask of it?

You may. [ Cherish the moment ]

[Oh, she will. Give her a moment to phrase the question properly.] You said you were an oddity among men. How, then, did you come to be so? Such things do not oft happen by chance.

This did. [ Technically. She's not going to go into explaining the whole science part because... what is Elven science? But the abnormality she did receive was a chance - they didn't even know what would happen ]

But that chance came through certain actions that I took - dangerous ones.

[At that there's a spark in her eyes and it rather betrays her ambitions. Dangerous actions sound just fine to her; she wants so badly to see the world, to do great deeds, to become as powerful as her father.]

Is it a tale worth the telling?

Less so than much of what my longevity has afforded me to see. [ Which is true. It was a long story of standing around and doing math, less exciting despite its danger ]

I would be glad to hear whatever you would tell me.

I understand that there are other beings in your world along with both Elves and Man?

It is similar in my world, although with far more species than you might imagine.

It sounds wondrous! Already I have seen so many more beings than yet exist in my own world. To think that there are more!

It certainly can be, yes. And there are far more than even I have seen, or read of. As much as I know my life is still simply beginning.

Someday I shall leave the Valinor and travel the lands that lie to the East. [Already at this young age she has her mind set on it.] Mayhaps then I will be able to speak of what I have seen.

I have a feeling that is quite the possibility. [ Galadriel was well travelled when she knew her. She wasn't quite certain of Valinor as one destination but travel all the same did occur ] Be certain to keep your eyes open.

My eyes are more open than most. [She just smiles at her own little joke.]

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