Yet even as hope failed Telperion bore at last upon a leafless bough one great flower of silver

[bythewaves]

Who: Maglor and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit - Garden
When: NOW/anytime this month tbh

Video

[ Maglor is sitting in one of the rooms just off the garden in Iskaulit - a dark room, where a small little sapling is glowing. Yes. It's not your imagination. The little tree is glowing. (So is Maglor, but the fleet should be used to their glowy elves by now). ]

Milady Makie is asleep, so I thought I should make this announcement on her behalf - as per the wishes of Doctor Beverly Crusher, we thought it would be good to have a memorial in the gardens for those who leave us. The tree is still very young, but you are welcome to come and leave candles or simply to sit and remember. The gardens remain open to all, as well, despite the good Doctor leaving.

Please feel free to come and if you wish to help, anything would be welcome.

[ He reaches to turn off the feed and then pauses ]

Ah, and if anyone wishes any forgework done, the forge should be finished, soon. Please contact me, Sokka, or my brother Maedhros or cousin Fingon, if you wish anything.

Action

[ Maglor can be found anywhere in the garden, tending to basic chores, or in the room with the little sapling, singing softly to it of growing strong and bright. ]

Comments

[noprophecies]

[she hums a bit, amused] Such as tempers? Because I know mine comes from my mother.

Aside from magic, of course. I know that is passed down - the noblemen make a rather big deal about it, at least the human ones.

[bythewaves]

Considering the sort of tempers in my family I would say so. [ maglor winces in fond memory ] Ai, but the shouting some days!

[noprophecies]

Goodness. [she can't help the chuckle that escapes] Mother never raised her voice, but she had a tone about her that did not welcome argument. Father, on the other hand, was . . . what is the term, "laid back"? I only ever saw him angry once or twice.

[bythewaves]

Both my parents had tempers. [ Maglor remembers ]

Father was the forest fire, but Mother the Volcano, slow to build, but you did not want to be in the way when it erupted! And all of us had tempers of our own, to one degree or another! It was certainly never a quiet house.

[noprophecies]

Ah, Mother was like that as well. She was from a noble family, so she always kept herself in check, but if one angered her - you did not want to be anywhere nearby when she exploded. She had a tone that could shatter glass.

[a puff of amusement] I have earned a reputation for my temper back home.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor chuckles softly ]

She sounds like she might have gotten on with my mother, although Nerdanel was a blacksmith's daughter, not a highborn lady. Ai, but the scandal when Father wed her! But that they loved each other no one doubted.

I am widely regarded as the "calm" one of my brothers, but you can ask Maedhros about my tantrums!

[noprophecies]

Mm, she may have. Mother did not care much for one's status; she was highborn, but she rarely spent time with others from those families. And she fell in love with my father, and he was anything but highborn.

[she hums] I cannot picture it, I'm afraid.

[bythewaves]

[ He laughs ]

Everyone says that. [ He says merrily ] But I have a temper too, as any of my family could attest. I just have a longer fuse, is all.

[noprophecies]

A longer fuse can be beneficial.

[says this one, with the shortest fuse known to man]

[bythewaves]

I certainly always found it so! Useful when others assume this makes you easily pliable, too.

[ The gentlest of Feanor's sons was hardly that, as many learnt to their own peril ]