[ 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.
[ '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? ]
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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.
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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? ]