[Video] Imagination 10

[ayao]

Nie Mingjue, Lan Xichen and Nie Huaisang, would you mind meeting me in the Library? I have something important to discuss with you.

[He looks down unhappily, unable to even meet the eyes of those who might see this transmission. As long as it reaches those he intends, that is all that matters.]

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[marriedanidiot]

She doesn't allow him to hide, turning his chin with gentle but inexorable hands.

"Only they can answer that." She says gently.

"But for my part, my faith has been rewarded." Feanaro had returned to her closer to the ner she had wed than she had seen him for millenia, after all.

"It is not your part to decide worth - all you can do is try."

[ayao]

He doesn't fight her - that would be rude - but his lips twitch, revealing his discomfort. His shame. His guilt.

"I don't know how to make it easier for them." or himself. It is comforting, however, to hear that faith can be rewarded.

"I am accustomed to looking ahead. That is what I do for the Nie; I try to see problems before they become obstacles."

[marriedanidiot]

"You can't." She says gently.

"All you can do is your best - that is all that is ever asked of us. Looking too far ahead brings only despair, for all roads are dark, eventually - too many chances."

[ayao]

"I fear your wisdom came at a high price." he is grateful for her words - for her presence - and he tries to give back the comfort by tucking himself against her.

[marriedanidiot]

She immediately cuddles him close.

"All wisdom is." She murmurs. "Lessons are sadly best learnt in grief - whether yours or anothers."

[ayao]

"I wish you far less grief in the future." he closes his eyes and smiles a little bit, "My mother would apply her paint early in the morning and I would wake to spend time with her. She used what money she made to buy me books on Cultivation. She wanted me to be the best."

[marriedanidiot]

Nerdanel runs a gentle hand through his hair.

"She sounds very brave. I am glad you knew such love."