Meet & Greet Challenge Drabbles by cílil

Lost in Memory [Manwë & Melkor]

What had it been like to have a brother? What had it felt like to share a bond with one who had once been as he?

Manwë looked down at his hands, empty like the part of his ëala where Melkor's presence should be. His memory was supposed to be eternal; why could he not even remember what he had lost?

"You are no brother to me. You never were."

"I have no brother."

He remembered those words well. They plagued his nightmares, worsened his guilt.

They had been Melkor's response.

Still, Manwë refused to believe that he was right.