1st Song [video]

[fertilefeet]

[Coming back from Arima, Lúthien has barely left the gardens. It safe and comfortable there. Still, she knows she isn't the only one that's been left disturbed by what Morgoth and Mairon had done, whether they had been given nightmares in the shuttle or their treatment on Arima.

When her communicator begins recording, she remains silent at first. As though she's second-guessing herself or thinking about how to begin. And then she straightens and speaks.]

I know that many of us are still upset [an understatement, she knows] about what has happened. To us and to others at the hands of Morgoth and Mairon. And I know that sleep may be difficult to come by for a time or even avoided.

[She can't help the latter of the two but the first?] I have a gift, one that I can use to put to sleep those who cannot sleep themselves. I would offer this service to any who wish it.

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[wroughtsteel]

Good news, at least. [ She looks down at the hands in her lap. ] We may all find some semblance of peace now, though at a great cost.

[fertilefeet]

I hope that we will, that his influence is faded or does fade. [Great cost indeed. She reaches, slowly, before placing her hand lightly over Eowyn's in comfort.]

[wroughtsteel]

[ Éowyn merely nods, but when Lúthien's hand rests upon hers she cannot hold back a short sob, barely there but enough for her to move her other hand, covering her mouth. ] I am sorry, I... I find myself grieving still.

[fertilefeet]

I blame you not. Merry, he was a close friend of yours?

[wroughtsteel]

He was, from back home. Perhaps due to circumstance alone, but we had grown quite close in a very short time.

[fertilefeet]

I am truly sorry then, for his loss. And that I could do nothing to help him.

[wroughtsteel]

Not at all. There was nothing any of us could do, not how things came to happen. [ She smiles sadly. ] He was one of the bravest and kindest people I have ever come to meet.

[fertilefeet]

I do not doubt it, not for a moment. I wish that I had been able to know him better in our time here.