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[Does this look like a harassed clock with a human face? Does it? Good, because it's Cogsworth, sitting in front of a window on the Marvisa and he looks like he just swallowed about a half a dozen lemons. In his tiny brass hands he is holding a piece of paper, and he keeps fiddling with it, shifting it between his two hands.

He puts one brass hand up to his mouth, clears his throat, and then fumbles with the paper for a moment. Could he be ... nervous? It's possible.

Lips pressed together, the time hands on his face twitching, he states flatly.]

Hello. My name is Cogsworth and I am a ... [now he has to look at the word.] Ho-mo-sexual. I realize that I am a ... clock, but I assure you that I am not a ho-mo-sex-ual clock, but a ho-mo-sex-ual man. I have been ... told. Rigorously.

[Here he is glowering.]

That I need to ... 'embrace' this. So. If there are any ... individual males who would not mind ... being complimented by a ... human clock, then, ah. Please! Come forward.

[Okay he'll try a smile but it's more of a sheepish grimace at this point. God help him.]

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Urges of the body, the mind and the fëa...spirit. (But mainly the foremost. They are the most awkward, poor clock.)

I have learned to ignore the callings so to speak.

....well yes I suppose I do have all three.

[Uhm. Well.]

Are you a - a ho-mo-sex-ual as well?

I am sorry.

(Truly. Maedhros has a hard enough time with what he feels and his body is mostly intact!)

I do not fully understand the meaning of that word.

Well, I. Thank you!

Oh, that is a man who likes other men.

[There was no way someone with a voice like this liked men. It was sonorous. Cogsworth wondered if he was talking to a man of the cloth.]

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(He is silent for a long stretch. His family know the truth about him - why he never married, why his sanity broke after a certain death. He is cursed and mad and scarred, but that part of him has never changed.)

I suppose by like you mean 'attracted to'.

Yes.

... Uhm, yes, quite.

[Well that is a surprise.]

Did you -- ah -- also have problems?

It is not common in my world. (Read: completely unheard of in general.) I told no one.

Yes, it is uncommon in mine as well.

Ah ... are you looking to embrace that part of yourself?

Slowly, I think, I will try. My people tend to love only one in that manner for their entire lives.

Oh ... oh well that is quite romantic.

[A pause.]

My apologies. I am sorry, for your loss.

Romantic and tragic when war strikes. (He knows that personally.) The loss has been regained.

So he ... came back from the dead?

Indeed. As have I. The Fleet made that possible.

Then I am pleased ... that you are together again.

You are very kind to say so. Is there one you desire?

Oh yes, but he's too much of an idiot to realize it. Besides he's obsessed with women. I have never seen him obsess over a man in our time working together.

Then I encourage you to find another - as painful as that may be. You are much too kind to be trapped in a hopeless situation.

Oh! ... well, Thank you. [If clocks could sound like they were blushing ... ] I just do not know anyone who would want to be found by a clock.

Are you doomed to always take that shape? Curses can be broken - if that is what has befallen you.

What? Oh no! No, sooner or later we will break this curse and I will be human again. A very well-dressed, turned out fellow with a ... ahem, health appetite.

There is naught wrong with a healthy appetite! If you do not mind me asking, how may the curse be broken? Do you know?

Yes. My master must find someone to love, and love him in turn, before the last petal falls on the enchanted rose that he was given by the enchantress.

That is a difficult task indeed for anyone. I do not envy him, though he obviously has the best of servants.

oh! Well, thank you very much ... and yes, we are trying to help by finding a cure just in case. Well. Unless he falls in love.

If he is worthy of your loyalty and service, he will stand a chance. (But a cure? Maedhros frowns.) There are Wizards on Arda. Should one of them arrive, I could direct them to you?

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