“Legolas, stop that.”
“…What?”
“You’re… you’re shining or something. It’s like you’ve been backlit…”
“What?”
“You. Are. Glimmering.”
Blank look.
“You know, glimmering: to emit a faint or intermittent light? Shining, radiant, sparkling, sunny, apple-pie, snowy, stainless, unspoiled, clarion, luminous, bright, beaming, brilliant, fluorescent, incandescent, dazzling, glowing, glistening, gleaming, illllllllllllll-ustrious!!! Adumbration?!?”
“No.”
“What?”
“I think that last one was a synonym of “glimmering” when it is used as a noun indicating a sudden thought, and not as a descriptive adjective.”
Goes back to drinking.
Aragorn throws hands up in defeat.
“Aragorn?”
“What?”
“Stop that.”
“… What?”
“You… you are emitting a smell, or something. Like… hot, wet, garbage left to sit in the sun laden with fish or…”
THE END.


