Broken Boulder or without your smile

delight doesn't know the dead girl. delight barely knows the alive ones, for god's sake -- but he comes to alarian's call in wide-eyed alarm, sees the body, and thinks: oh no. and thinks: it's followed me here, too. and thinks: maybe it wasn't tindómë that was cursed. maybe it's him.

he doesn't tell any of this to alarian. how could he on the heels of his generosity? (how could he when -- he's bringing life into the equation that he's directly responsible for?)

no, he'll stay quiet, even as he draws to alarian's side, helping him dig the grave with automatic motions. wondering if the spectre of death will ever cease hanging over the soft curves of his skull. wondering if he's doomed alarian and bracken sanctuary the way he'd doomed tindome, too.