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]

Gorlim leans against him and holds the tea. He takes a small sip, but seems more to want to hold it for its warmth than be interested in drinking it.

He just needs to be held now. And to sleep somewhere safe and away from the dreaming.

[halls_of_mandos]

Perhaps now was not the time to tell Gorlim about Mary Anne.

Instead, he settle Gorlim in a nest of quilts and goes to the crib.

Then, in Gorlim's lap, are set Kelly and Gabriel, now the same size. Clinging to each other, very much asleep, but Námo smiles down at Gorlim.

"Your children. Safe. Protected. Dreaming peacefully, dove, thanks to their father."

[gorlim]

Gorlim sets the tea aside and puts his arms around his children, nuzzling them, kissing each in turn.

"Oh, Namo. Thank you. So much..."

[halls_of_mandos]

He curls up beside father and children, fingers moving over fuzzy heads.

"Thanking me? For what, love?"

[gorlim]

He smiles at last, scoots down, nestles the children between both fathers.

"For being my Mandos for a little while."