Winterlights by Elleth

Longest Night

For prompt #9: Holiday music. Nimrodel and Mithrellas, and a midwinter celebration.

The longest night is fast approaching. In Lórinand the land sleeps unstained, the people grow quiet and festive, and keep to the gloaming and the night without fear of evil. As though the forest bears stars in her branches, candles burn in the telain, and voices rise to spell reminiscences, but night by night, the lights grow more, the tunes turn more to triumph: Look, the songs say, who we are. People of the Stars, this is our time. Awaken! Ele!

Loudest and first among them sings Nimrodel with the water’s voice, but her gleaming eyes rest, always, on Mithrellas.