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(ᴍᴀɪʀᴏɴ) ◑ SAURON ([personal profile] eyefire) wrote2022-11-23 11:53 am

but don't make me your enemy

( from here. )


[ Adar is left alone for a night. Sauron finds him in the obsidian hallways of the palace, the parts he is allowed to frequent as a captain, standing at the end of a corridor when Adar turns. His robes are dark, simmering with a soft burn at the ends of his robes, and his eyes are the only light of any worth, fixed on his uruk. ]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[He follows because he knows he has no choice, yet at the threshold to the door, Adar nearly turns back.

Must we? is clear on his face though he doesn't so much as mouth the words as he swallows and forces himself to go inside.]
I see now why you did not bother to find me. [He was concocting an extension of his punishment, one that was almost dressed up like a reward (again) and would be to nearly anyone in Angband.

He tries not to look at them, but his other choice is his master who will surely turn his gaze back and so he finds himself staring at their young faces, ruined forever. He sits, but makes no move to take any of the food.]


Would you not run? [he asks, leaning back in the chair to look at him.] If it were Manwë here instead of Morgoth and you were some cog in his machine? Would you not try? [He asks but he knows, because Sauron would preserve himself at any cost. That was the core of his being, more than anything else.]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Adar still doesn't make himself a plate, now looking squarely at Sauron without so much as blinking.

So he was pissed about Adar verbalising what they both knew, he supposed. That he had failed time and time again to make any other Uruks that compared to him, that he needed Adar and could not simply replace him with whatever elf wandered along next.]


You need not fear it happening again. [Not until he can stab you at the same time.] I have seen the error of my ways, my Lord.
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Always and forever it was what Sauron wanted, no mercy given unless it amused him to do so. Even after all these years Adar picked hesitantly at the options until he had something of a plate of the least offensive looking "parts" that he can slowly eat with his fork, trying not to think about it.]

May I ask why? [Probably not, but he felt compelled to try.]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [If that is meant to be shocking, the best Adar can summon is a raise of his brow. Fine. Whatever. have his body, ruin his mind. What difference did the thousandth or more time make?]

If that is your wish. [It's not like he could say no and have it be worth the effort it took to expel the words from his lips.]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He is grateful for the presence of the broth, if only because it gives him something to focus on that was neither Sauron nor their beheaded almost-friends who were roasted for the table.

He had never been willing, not once, not for that, but his children were still stronger and smarter and better than the others so he blinks. Was Sauron after a new soldier or a replacement for him?]


The mother would need to be willing as well...
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He really should have slept last night because that one catches him entirely off-guard, snapping his attention immediately to Sauron. He did want a replacement then, or at least a Luthien of some sort. He takes a glass of water, suddenly needing the cool sweetness he had known the night before last.]

You want to be a parent? [When he had pointed out that Sauron's experiments were failures, this was not what he meant! Yet he doesn't want to be too snarky because that broth is real food and he could so easily just smash the bowl of it against the wall and give Adar a thigh bone to chew on instead.]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[When the broth is slid close enough that he can take it as being allowed to have it he slides it close, protectively wrapping his wounded arm around it like this was not Sauron's table and instead was one of the lesser ones where people who as of yet had no reason to fear him stole from his plate (or tried).

He sighs softly. He really should hate him more than he did, it wasn't fair. With a soup spoon he eats some of the broth as he considers this whole situation.]


And you think this will earn you a better soldier? [Or a better Adar???? He really wants to ask without endangering his broth.]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...No, I wouldn't. [And now he suddenly wanted the child even less than he might have two minutes ago at the first suggestion of them existing. A child should not be an anchor, and they didn't even know how his blood would react with a Maia's...

He has more broth as he tries to think.]


Do you mean to do to it as you have done to me?
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[He had once wanted many children, which is a thought he knows Sauron has seen before, he has seen all of them before either in his eyes or when he wove his way into Adar's mind and could go through them like it was merely a library.

He nods because he doesn't trust himself to speak right now and does not want to think too much about the fact he naturally leaned towards his mouth as it spoke so softly and sweetly.

Sauron had had many terrifying ideas over the centuries, but this way by far the most frightening.]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[As with all things in Angband, it had been settled long before Sauron deigned to share the idea with him. He could not refuse, even if he wished to (and he did), so he just nods and finishes his much-coveted bowl of broth.]

Yes, my Lord. [As you wish, always. Even in this. When he is done with his food, every last drop drank from the bowl and the water finished he rises to his feet, and bows to Sauron slightly before he walks out to "finish his affairs" by which he can only assume Sauron means scream into his mouldy old pillow, because that is what he goes and does.

But not a full hour later he is back, about as clean as anyone who wasn't Sauron or Morgoth could manage in this hellhole, in his better set of clothes.]
Master. [What do you want of him you overbroiled potato.]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, my lord. [He had never had an urge to see Morgoth than he was forced too, anyway, and especially now with everything Sauron had said (or implied) swirling around his mind like a tempest, well he had even less interest than usual.]

Is everything well? [he kind of hoped not, but it doesn't show in his voice at least, merely a gentle curiosity does instead.]
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[personal profile] callmeadar 2022-11-23 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He follows like the good dog he is, and just like one might he spies as best he can through the crack in the door. It tells him nothing he had not long known, they do not speak as he did to Sauron, nor even stay in their fana's fully. Sauron actually loved Morgoth in the way he wanted Adar to love him.

Before he turns to walk back out to Adar the Uruk has already turned away from the door, standing like a soldier at the door. He both wished he knew what was said and was glad that he did not. He could only imagine it had something to do with his plan to bring half-maia children into the world.

Or a child, at least.

He hoped it was only one.

Adar follows, off to the side as they walk as he has never been inclined to lose a foot to the melted stone that Sauron so often leaves in his wake like the dramatic bitch he is. Unlike usual, he doesn't say anything or ask anything. His mouth is dry, his arm throbs, he does his best to not think about anything more than keeping track of where they were in the palace.]

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