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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[halls_of_mandos]

He meets that smile with his own.

"I will be your Mandos until time ends, Gorlim."

[gorlim]

Gorlim curls up and tucks his head under Namo's chin, his arm over his children as they sleep.

It's a little warmer now. But still cold.

"You still have those quilts?" Gorlim asks.

[halls_of_mandos]

"Always."

He reaches down and pulls up the thick, warm down quilts, coving their little family.

"Love you."

[gorlim]

Gorlim curls around the children, against Namo, holding and being held, loving and so loved.

Safe here. Safe at last.

"Love you, heron."

[halls_of_mandos]

Námo presses a kiss to Gorlim's brow.

"Sleep. I will keep the demons and the nightmares from you tonight."

and always