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[arlathvhen]

I do my best to.

[ She gives a noncommittal shrug, shoving a piece of carrot in her mouth, which serves as a convenient means of stalling until she can think of something that doesn't sound like paranoid hand wringing. ]

I worry that you'll get hurt. It's...so easy to get hurt, when it comes to relationships. And I think that you're one of the strongest people I've ever met, but you can't just slap a bandage over those kinds of wounds.

[rowancrowned]

If she betrays me, it will break me, [ he admits. and perhaps it is cruel of him to hold a young woman to the bonds of forever, even when he explained them to her, and think they will be as binding and seem as born out of love at twenty five as they will at fifty five. ] And when she dies, it will ache, but I have mourned her death every day I have known her. But I will endure. The elvhen need me.

[arlathvhen]

[ Beleth ponders asking, what good are you to us if you're so easily broken? But that seems unnecessarily cruel, so instead, she shrugs. ]

I suppose that's something everyone who loves someone else has to reconcile. Lovers, family, friends. And I suppose it's not like our current predicament is giving any of us good odds for longevity.

[ It's a odd way to comfort someone, she supposes. ]

I won't say that I think it's a good idea, Thranduil. But it sounds like you've...come to terms with whatever it entails.

[rowancrowned]

[ 'your nature doesn't allow for it', but he thinks it, same as he's thought it for years now. perhaps it will not be righted for them, but for their children, yet unborn, the word might be made right.

he owes them that. ]

Better to have it than to not. Better to have the children, when they come.

[ a smile, finally. beleth, aren't you excited to be an aunt? ]