An Edie and Emily in Valinor
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Is this the kind of situation where hugging one's spouse can meaningfully help? Probably not. Can't hurt either.

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They stay there a few hours. Their people gather in around them. Then they check the palace.

Fëanáro's workshop has been ransacked, everything gone. The library set on fire. All of Miriel's tapestries burned. 

 

The Silmarils are gone.

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Idaia cannot think of a productive way to deal with this so she's just going to cling to her husband and/or sister insofar as this does not prevent them from doing productive things.

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They're going to rebuild temporary shelters, search through the rubble for things they'll need for emigration, start collecting food before it dies in the absence of the Trees, and send an envoy to Taniquetil to get Fëanáro - Fëanáro, King of the Noldor - and bring him back here to bury his father.

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Okay that sounds like--stuff she can meaningfully help with. Right.

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If she and Idaia make sure to never be asleep at the same time maybe they can make enough/the right kind of light so at least not all the plants die...?

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Sure. They can identify the most important harvests, and the two of them can try to sustain them. 

 

People will huddle around the edges of the fields. Light is comforting.


The Enemy took the Silmarils. The Enemy took the only way they could live outside Valinor.

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Not that living in Valinor looks like a much better bet with the Trees gone.

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They'll wait on the orders of the King, but he expects that they're leaving.

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How the fuck did Melkor even kill the Trees anyway.

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Good question.

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Fucking incompetent Valar not even good at the things they're supposed to care about.

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He's sent people to Taniquetil. It'll be six months before they return with the King. Let's everyone be as prepared for the King's orders as we can be.

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Does that involve things other than illuminating these fields because she is kinda not good at taking initiative right now.

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Be packed to leave.

And we should learn to use swords. In the Outer Lands we may well need them.

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Okay, she can do that.

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Sort of. Packing is easy. Sword-fighting...makes her physical inadequacies when compared to an elf kinda highly visible.

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It's not cheating to dreamshape, you know.

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Yyyes but no one we're likely to be fighting over there is going to be able to so it's not useful sparring for my partner if I do that.

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I want you able to defend yourself, they can practice against each other.

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Well, a lot of the combat options I can think of to pull out in a life-or-death situation aren't things I think I can meaningfully practice on someone I don't want to kill, but--noted.

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Just so long as you can keep yourself safe. Not that I'll ever be far away, but -

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Better safe than sorry, yeah.

I love you.

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I love you. Thank you for being here for us.

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What else was I gonna do?

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She gives him a quick kiss and then goes back to practicing.

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