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[nienor_niniel_]

*takes a tiny break from feeding, rocking, changing and generally doting on the babies*

*goes outside and sits in the shade of a tree*

*closes her eyes*

Just for a minute...

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[star_brow]

*wanders by on her walk*

*notices you and stops*

Good gracious, dearie! You look positively peaked!

[nienor_niniel_]

*blinks and looks up*

Oh. *rubs her face* 'm sorry.

I.. uhm... just gave birth a couple of days ago. *yawns widely* Still a bit tired.

[star_brow]

SPAWN? HORRORS!

Oh, you poor thing! I know all about that.

*rambles on for several agonizing minutes about lochia and engorged breasts*

[nienor_niniel_]

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*is starting to get slightly freaked out*

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You're a mother, then?

[star_brow]

Why, yes. LITTLE THANKS TO THE SPERM DONOR. A single mother, actually.

[nienor_niniel_]

*face falls*

Oh. Sorry?

*doesn't know what she'd do without Aldarion*

[star_brow]

*waves her hand nonchalantly*

Never mind all that. It's in the past and present and future until I've SATISFIED MY LUST FOR BLOOD. Sodding mariners.

But pardon me. I don't think we've been properly introduced. I'm Queen Elestirnë.

*holds out her hand and smiles with a benignity that doesn't quite reach her eyes*

[nienor_niniel_]

*stomach plummets to the ground at the mention of mariners and her name*

Uhm. It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Nienor, daughter of Húrin.

*shakes Erendis' hand*

[star_brow]

How absolutely thrilling to make your acquaintance! I'm of the same house as your mother, you know.

*babbles for several more minutes about the House of Bëor*

And the new little one? I trust it isn't your brother's this time around.

*laughs out loud, oblivious to her tactlessness or perhaps too batty to care*

[nienor_niniel_]

*through thin lips* No, my brother is not my newborn children; my boyfriend -- to whom I am no direct relation is.

[star_brow]

A jest, child. Only a jest.

*leans in toward you and whispers behind her hand conspiratorially*

If you'll take my advice, you'll ditch the lout before he has a chance to corrupt your--oh, you said children! Twice the heartache! Jolly good!--before he has a chance to corrupt them. Nothing but trouble, men. THEM'S GOOD EATIN', THOUGH.

[nienor_niniel_]

*stiffly* I will do no such thing. I happen to love Aldarion very much and he loves me. I would be lost without him.

[star_brow]

Yes, yes, love. It seems like plenty in the begi-

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Aldarion?

[nienor_niniel_]

*defiantly* Yes. You know him, then?

[star_brow]

*head spins*

*nostrils flare*

HE'S MY HUSBAND, CUNT!

[nienor_niniel_]

*stands up a little shakily*

*softly* He's mine.