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[marriedanidiot]

Nerdanel looks... unusually frazzled.

"I... have any others had any visions? I... I fear something terrible is about to happen..."

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[marriedanidiot]

Ah, my little inventor has grown up a good deal, I see.

[ She smiles at him fondly ]

I am glad to see it. And how are you entertaining yourself, my dear?

[so_dark_a_road]

You're right, I have grown up a lot since those long past days.

[ He smiles back, adoringly. ]

I mostly entertain myself by interacting with people. But I always seize the opportunity to craft an item, if there's the need and the materials. And I dance when I can, and I play my flute, and I even skated on the ice once, when the train turned the garden coach into a winter scene and froze the pond!

[marriedanidiot]

I don't think you've played your flute for me yet, my Atarinke.

[ HINT HINT ]

[so_dark_a_road]

You're right, I haven't. [ He reaches for his satchel and pulls out the flute. He smiles at his mother and then sets it to his lips. And this is something like the flute music that he produces. ]

[marriedanidiot]

[ She settles down beside him to listen, smiling ]

You have improved. [ She says when he finishes ]

Makalaure must be pleased!

[so_dark_a_road]

[ He plays through to the end of the composition, and then lowers the flute and smiles at his mother. ]

Thank you. I've had the opportunity to practice a lot, since I left our world. I hope Makalaurë is pleased! He did get me started on being an instrumentalist, back in those early years of my childhood. I always tried to take his advice and his teachings to heart.

[marriedanidiot]

I'm glad.

[ She says wistfully ]

I wish sometimes, that I had gone with you. I missed so much of your lives.

[so_dark_a_road]

I wish sometimes that you had come with us, too. We missed you. I missed you. And yet. . . it was some comfort to us, knowing that you were safe in Tirion. But if you had been there, you'd have been part of the story of our Beleriand years, our small triumphs and our spectacular failures. Maybe it's better that you weren't? I can't say.

[marriedanidiot]

Mm. [ She sighs ]

Sometimes, I wonder if I might have stopped you... or... at least mitigated some of the harm...

[so_dark_a_road]

[ He sighs, too. ]

I wonder if you could have. We all loved you so, maybe we'd have listened to you. But I don't know. That terrible Oath had such a fierce hold on us. And the harm was done before finally, belatedly, I figured out that I did not have to remain a slave to the Oath.

[marriedanidiot]

Yes. [ She sighs ] I suppose we will never know. [ She says sadly ]

Want to wrap this one?

[so_dark_a_road]

We'll never know. All we can do is live our lives now, according to the best directives of our hearts. [ He wraps his arms around her again. ] I love you, Amil.

yus

[marriedanidiot]

"My little Atarinke has grown wise."

She smiles fondly at him.

"I love you too, yonya"