Cost by grey_gazania

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Summary:

In the aftermath of the Fifth Battle, Maedhros reaches a conclusion about his brothers, but the Second Kinslaying forces him to reconsider. A triple drabble

Major Characters: Maedhros

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Genre: General

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Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate

Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 293
Posted on 19 June 2010 Updated on 19 June 2010

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But later, kneeling blood-spattered on the slaughterhouse floor, surrounded by dead whom the foolish Valar would call his kin, he knew better. Tyelko, the hasty one, all bumps and bruises and scraped knees, bowling them over with his hugs, and how happy Makalaure was to have a baby brother. Curvo, the skilled one, sharp as a sword's edge, peppering them with questions about everything he could see or hear or touch, his wit as sharp as his intellect and as subtle and deft as his hands. And sullen, quiet Carnistir, innocent of Tyelko and Curvo's wrongs, but lost in the middle of his brothers as he often was in life, but for his flashes of furious temper.

You absolutely killed me with this paragraph. Just perfectly beautiful and heart wrenching.