New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
Nerdanel meets Fëanor for the first time.
prompt: hope, glass, special, fascinating
I once, in my wanderings, found a lightning-strike on the beach, the sand twisted into a spiral of glass. I dusted it free with gentle fingers. A special, fascinating thing: from the trauma of fire, beauty comes.
I once, in my wanderings, found a boy by a stream, washing a gem he’d found there. When his eyes lifted to mine
strike
I knew—I knew—that he arose from a crashing chord in the Music, arisen twisting, lovely, and strange. I coaxed him forth with gentle fingers. My wanderings ceased, came home to hope.
Of trauma. Of fire. Beauty comes?