B2MeM 2011, Day Twenty-Eight-Homecoming, Part One

[dolamrothdame]

Three separate prompts for B2MeM were combined to create Homecoming.  They're posted as a single entity over on Tolkienfanfiction but separately here because of the word limit.  The story is a gap-filler, inspired by this line in Reparation-"Certainly, he was not looking forward to the interview in which he informed his oath-brother that he’d

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[arwen_lune]

Man, it's easy to forget, in our time of instant and always-available communication, how a letter like this would be the only account Imrahil might have had for weeks. To read a letter like this and then to have to wait weeks until you can finally get answers to all the burning questions.

(ohh, I see it's part one! Hurrah for more to come)

[dolamrothdame]

Isn't that the truth? Our children certainly don't understand that delayed communication. When I was in high school, I was exchanging stories by mail with a friend of mine. It would take up to a week between chapters, though we were both local. I remember the anticipation fondly.

[blslarner]

Good to see the Metarre incident referenced. Andrahar certainly has reason to be hard on himself. Now--to see how it worked out!