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.
10. New Life
(Prompt 29: Birth)
A reproachful scream resonated through the room, painting delighted smiles on all assembled.
Relieved, Elrond placed the tiny girl into the arms of the new grandmother. He wasn't used to this, but just weeks after their arrival in the valley and without a midwife, it fell to him as one of the healers to assist with the birth of the very first resident.
The new mother was helped back on the bed, and her daughter placed on her belly. The radiance of her smile could have eclipsed the sun.
There's no better symbol for hope than the wonder of birth.
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I'm sure elves are too experienced and wise to force their women to lie down while giving birth.