That went well.

[valiantfinwe]

Well, that was more or less an unmitigated disaster

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[arid_white_lady]

He's going to notice that his little sister is doing the same thing... in the common room.

She's in sight, and not daring come closer.

Why? Because her eyes are red. Bright red. She just cried her eyes out, and not for someone the head of the House of Fingolfin likes at all.

[valiantfinwe]

He gets up and goes over to her, though, stiffly, still bruised. Because he can't let sister cry by herself, even if...well.

"Irisse?"

[arid_white_lady]

She'll just look up at him with tear-stricken eyes. "Oh, Findekano...."

[valiantfinwe]

He gives her an awkward hug, entirely unsure what to feel. "I'm...sorry." Awkwardly.

[arid_white_lady]

Cling-time! Because big brothers are protective, and reassuring, and alive, and well. "Oh, all our cousins..."

She sighs, and cries a little more. It's also Moryo, and the missing Twin, and Maitimo so, so ill.

[valiantfinwe]

"They'll be all right," uncomfortably.

[arid_white_lady]

"How? They're dead!" Almost angrily, but not at big brother - at the situation.

[valiantfinwe]

He doesn't have an answer for that. He just rubs her back.

[arid_white_lady]

She just sighs and leans into his touch a little. "I don't even know how it happened...."

[valiantfinwe]

"How what happened?"

[arid_white_lady]

“How everything happened. How one of the Ambarussa was killed, and what happened to Moryo,” she winces for the memory of his destroyed face, “and what happened to Tyelko - how he was… taken.”

[valiantfinwe]

He lets out a breath. "Ambarussa and Moryo were both struck down by Grond while fighting."

[arid_white_lady]

She nods, glumly. She saw the bodies - it was easy to guess. "And Tyelko?"

[valiantfinwe]

A hesitation. "He was taken in Findarato's stead."

[arid_white_lady]

"Oh." And a very, very trembling lip.

[valiantfinwe]

"It's - it's all right, at least his last deed was a good one-"

Oh, Fingon. Comforting, you're doing it wrong.