Accidental Video | Seelie & Unseelie | sometime during a break in worm fighting

[bythewaves]

[ The locket comes alive with a voice - deep and wild as the sea, it sings a lament in a language that seems made for music. The songs starts partway, and it is obvious perhaps that the singer is not aware that he is being recorded. There is the flash of one of the Unseelie imps, before it vanishes offscreen to reveal the singer - a man, or something like one, dark haired and grey eyed, with his face turned up to the stars.

To any who listen, the words of the song will paint themselves in the mind - white ships and blood on the sand, a tall and proud people with bright banners beneath a new-born sun, fire and blood and tears unimaginable, and three brilliant jewels that rival the stars ]

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[warmassummersday]

[An attempt is better than nothing at all.]

See that you do. I am here, even if only in this form.

[A limitless offer to always be ready and willing to talk. To help, as best he can.]

[bythewaves]

[ A laugh - a sad, broken thing, but something of genuine amusement all the same ]

You have grown up so well Elrond...

[warmassummersday]

[That gets a flash of a smile, broken as that laugh had been, it was still a laugh.]

You did your best by us.

[bythewaves]

We tried. [ It was the only thing they had left to do, after all ]

I am glad that at least this one thing I did right.

[warmassummersday]

You succeeded.

[Warm and earnest.]

[bythewaves]

One light in the darkness then. [ a soft murmur - well. One light is enough, for now. He can try to live on for that, perhaps ]

[warmassummersday]

I hope you will find other lights to live for.

[bythewaves]

[ a small sad shrug ]

We will see, I suppose.

[warmassummersday]

[He nods. Wishing he could know, but knowing he'll never really know. Unless Maglor finally lets himself Sail, and they meet again.]

Yes.

spoilers: he won't because mun wants to find him on the beach one day imean

[bythewaves]

[ A small sad smile and he brushes his fingers across the screen in farewell ]

Be well.

lol

[warmassummersday]

[Elrond mirrors the gesture.]

And you, ada.

[And reluctantly closes the locket.]