TM: Prompt #206

[namo]

(This is from milliways_bar canon where Námo has a mate (Gorlim the Unhappy) and children, and they have a patchwork sort of family with various characters from other canons.)

I live for my family, patched together out of dumb luck.

Once I would have said I lived for nothing, for no one but Eru, but that changed. Changed never happened to me until Milliways, and I must believe I was led there for this particular reason.

There is joy and brightness in my life now that I'd never known could exist before. I see my mate smile and warmth blossoms in my chest. Our children laugh and run in the snow, shouting at each other in four different languages, and I know absolute happiness. Kelly and Gabriel, now four, pause in a snowdrift to chatter in that bird-like language they taught themselves as infants, like twins, whispering their secrets to each other before Haldir toddles over and pushes snow down on them.

Beside me, Mary Anne packs a snowball before pelting Random with it. Rabastan plays hide-and-seek with Moon and the wolf pups. Nerdanel and Amber speak quietly as they sit on a bench, the Elf's cheeks pink from the cold, her hand held in Amber's.

And finally, standing tall at my side, is Gorlim, sipping his hot cider, wrapped in a thick cloak, and watching his family.

It was for him I once lived for.

Now, I live for this.

This moment. This enjoyment. This hodgepodge family. This peace that neither of us had apart but found together.

Muse: Námo
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Word Count: 230

Comments

[fluffy-mod.livejournal.com]

19th January 2008

Dear Mun,

I've noticed that you have not updated your journal halls_of_mandos (i.e., responded to one of the TM topics) for the past four weeks. NOTE: Roleplay does not count as updating your journal, per the rules of the Theatrical Muse community.

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1. REPLY TO THIS NOTE

2. RESPOND TO ONE OF THE MOST RECENT 4 TOPICS (#211, 212, 213, 214) BY NO LATER THAN January 24th 2008.

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Otherwise I will remove your muse from the TM community.

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