King Elk Forest pretty (ugly before)

sorry for the long wait! i was in la over the weekend :p

three years is a long time to be alone, delight thinks. he'd been lucky, really lucky, that mato and brienne had found him so quickly. that fate had led him to their path, and maybe that's why it was okay for what happened to have happened. how much can happen in a single season, he thinks.

more surprising - or interesting - is gracious' admission that she left around the same age as delight. they really are funny mirrors of each other: androgynous in their own sex's way, light and dark, cast out as youths but on different paths. he makes a small noise in sympathy. "me too," delight tells her, "though i'd only been on my own for a season or so when mato - morwinyon - found me. that was before tindómë actually formed." and they haven't been formed that long, though it feels like an eternity to the nénar. perhaps thats why everything is still hard-fought and precarious. it takes time to get settled, right?