Quilt of Growth by AdmirableMonster

Mairon: Mycoremediation

and back to the celebrimbor-lives AU

“Are those mushrooms?” Trygve asked, scratching their beard.

Celebrimbor nodded absently, leg twinging vaguely unpleasantly. Stinky lashed his tail in excitement, circling the mushrooms with a very predatory look on his face. For a moment, Celebrimbor wondered if he would destroy the whole patch, but he reached out delicately and plucked just one of the fruiting bodies, laying it on the ground and then slicing it open with a claw. Celebrimbor tried not to see how the paw moved like a hand that he remembered skillfully wielding a knife.

“There’s gold inside?” Trygve stared at the glittering fragments inside the dissected mushroom.

“Poison,” Celebrimbor said softly. “They take it into themselves to heal the land.”

Stinky purred proudly.