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.
Prompts: tarry mischance pearl embrace.
The elfling in his embrace wriggled as he put her down. "I must not tarry, hinya. Master Círdan wants to send these with the messenger, and I must pack them quickly," explained her father, shoving pearls into leather pouches while counting on his fingers.
"But I am not ready to let them all go," she protested.
Her father paused a moment, considering. He knocked one of the pouches askew, spilling many pearls. "Ah, such a mischance!" he sighed, gathering them again save for one. "There, got them all!"
He turned his back, thinking "what is one pearl less to Doriath?"