Winterlights by Elleth

Treasure Trove

For prompt #19: Holiday stories. Anairë and Nerdanel make new memories.

Nerdanel and Anairë hold a treasure-trove of stories between them, both the glad and the dour – Findekáno and Makalaurë as children, kicking a ball across the dinner table, Fëanáro and Nolofinwë growling blame at each other. But only rarely, if ever, they recall time alone, lost in the din of the family, the silent wives, the caring mothers as history would write them, only half their worth and half the truth.

It is Anairë who sits with crossed arms and frowns. “No more of that,” she says. “Our memories will be ours to make.”

"They already are," says Nerdanel.