Winterlights by Elleth

Winter Songs

For prompt #2: First snowfall. Nimrodel and Mithrellas greet the cold season.

Winter swept into Lórinand from the east-plains and froze the waterfall. Nimrodel was more than equal to the task, taking up the song where her stream had been reduced to gurgles underneath the ice, and although she asked for honey to soothe her voice by twilight, she kept vigil through the dark, and by dawn again leaned on Mithrellas’ shoulder, nestling against her shawl and yawning. “They have heard.”

Mid-morning, clouds rolled in on the wind and wreathed the forest in downfeather flakes. Mithrellas smiled and began to sing a greeting, and pausing only to kiss her, Nimrodel joined in.