Another evening.

[gorlim]

He'd been to Ruin again. This time... more visions, crueler even than watching his Eilinel. A future he had not even dared conjure in nightmares. Gabriel defeated by Melkor, and his own daughter, heavy with child, taken by the dark one and then killed

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[gorlim]

Why did he come?

Why DID he come?

Eilinel couldn't be allowed to see this.

Namo...

...Namo could at least... maybe... hold him against it. At least Gorlim could know he was safe here.

The smell of the tea seems unappetizing to him right now. He closes his eyes tightly.

[halls_of_mandos]

He stares at him, sighs softly, and then puts the mug on the nightstand.

"All right. No tea. What is it you do want, Gorlim? Because I am at a loss. Should I go locate Mary Anne? Perhaps she will haul you off to her world for a few more days?" he asks bitterly, his anger still simmering below the surface from his encounter with Mary Anne earlier that day.

"Or will you, for once in our relationship, bend to me? Let me in. Let me be the anchor for you. Allow me to be more than someone to wipe blood and seed and tears from your body, because while I will never turn you away, I am growning quite tired of feeling like a nurse for you to come to with your physical hurts while others heal your emotional ones!"

In a moment his hand is on Gorlim's left hand, thumb and forefinger on the Claddagh ring. "I gave you a ring, and I will give you my very spirit, but dammit, Gorlim, give me something of yourself!"

[gorlim]

Gorlim opens his eyes again.

Looks up at his Vala.

And opens his spirit, too. The force of a heavy sorrow battering him, the weight of nightmares, the dark fear.

[halls_of_mandos]

And Námo is there with steady eyes, steady contact, and his spirit just as vibrant and sure as he meets that heavy sorrow.

Nightmares are met with openness.

Dark fear is met with shining hope.

"We will endure. You will triumph over him. I have faith in you, my star."

[gorlim]

This is what he needs. Someone to tell him it will be all right. Someone to believe it, someone else to KNOW.

He lets himself be broken at last now. Lets himself fall into Namo's arms and cry and hope he's let himself be so vulnerable to someone who can stand against it.