Ooh, proto-Watchers in the Water! So Sauron's forces have taken to leaving these beasties as doorwardens whenever they defeat Dwarves, have they? Interesting. And I love your description of the way that the baby Watcher moves, especially curling its tentacles around Alatar's staff - I could see it all very clearly in my mind.
And how fantastic, to see all the Istari traveling together, with Alatar for a change being the POV character! Their interaction here has the feeling of siblings arguing with each other at this point:
“Squid cannot survive in fresh water, they are not equipped–”
“Yet there’s a squid in here, whatever your science has to say about it,” Aiwendil observed somewhat defiantly.
Curumo reached the edge of the stream and peered down at a hand-sized shape distorted by the swift water. “After all the time you spent in Kementári’s tutelage, I should think you would recognize when a creature does not belong in a certain–”
“My business is to love the creatures of Arda, not to dissect or taxonimate or whatever you–”
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Date: 2012-03-14 10:30 pm (UTC)And how fantastic, to see all the Istari traveling together, with Alatar for a change being the POV character! Their interaction here has the feeling of siblings arguing with each other at this point:
“Squid cannot survive in fresh water, they are not equipped–”
“Yet there’s a squid in here, whatever your science has to say about it,” Aiwendil observed somewhat defiantly.
Curumo reached the edge of the stream and peered down at a hand-sized shape distorted by the swift water. “After all the time you spent in Kementári’s tutelage, I should think you would recognize when a creature does not belong in a certain–”
“My business is to love the creatures of Arda, not to dissect or taxonimate or whatever you–”
Write on!