Midwinter 2020 Instadrabbling by Lindariel

Chapter 7

Doriath, early First Age.  Prompts:  cherished, absence, cursed, speaking.

Even before Thingol had finished speaking, cursing the speech of Aman and banishing for a time the sons of Finarfin, Melian could foresee the hole that would be left behind by Alatáriel's absence. An aura of Aman, a memory fresher than her own of the Two Trees, clung about her husband's kinswoman, lending fresh energy to the body Melian had assumed to become Thingol's lover.

She had not been fully aware how much she relied on that new energy until she contemplated how she would have to live without it. For Alatáriel too would vanish from Menegroth, for a time.