Morning Mist and Silver Sun by StarSpray

Supplies

Written for the May 2020 Block Party image instadrabbling

Anairë looked around with interest as she followed Nerdanel into her workshop. Laurelin was at full brightness, and the windows were flung open wide to let in the breeze and the golden light. There were the usual instruments and supplies that Anairë would have expected to find in any sculptor’s workshop, but along one wall were shelves full of strange things, kept in jars or glass bottles or simply piled onto: bits of cloth, a handful of sand, a jar full of freshwater pearls, or bits of paper, and bits of colored glass that caught the light like gems, and cast rainbow colors on the ceiling and the floor.

“What’s all this?” she asked, running her fingers along a line of small glass bottles.

“Oh, odds and ends,” said Nerdanel, busy searching for something across the room beneath an untidy pile of papers. “You never know what you might need.”