New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
Maedhros on the day that Celegorm and Curufin arrive in Himring after being banished from Nargothrond. A double drabble.
It is as good a day as we have in Himring. No news comes from the front. The weather is as fair as can be expected; I spit and it does not freeze before hitting the earth. Even the forsaken winds have subsided a bit so the streets remain clear of snow and I don't have to listen to the bellyaching of the gardeners appointed to that task.
The sky is a pale, flawless blue-gray, without a single cloud.
I am sitting in my study, enjoying it. Just one day,> I'd asked. And I've received.
There is a cup of herbal tea sitting on the corner of my desk. For once, I have time to let it properly cool and do not have to drink it down so fast that I scald my mouth. Or chance that it will sit until as cold as the numbing floorboards beneath my feet while I discuss battle plans and provisions and how we will survive another winter.
I lift the teacup and sip. Delicious.
And then comes the knock. The page bows low, hiding unease in his eyes. "My Lord Maedhros, I announce the arrival of Lords Celegorm and Curufin. Most unexpected--"
Today's Word:
stasis STAY-sis; STAS-is, noun; plural stases STAY-seez; STAS-eez:
Stasis comes from Greek stasis, "a standing still," from histasthai, "to stand."