Author: Himring
Title: Grey Ship's Cargo
Rating: PG
Theme: Nostalgia
Elements: Memories
Author's Notes: The first element of the word nostalgia is a Greek word meaning "homecoming, return home" (the second element refers to pain). That is not what the word means in English, obviously, but my drabble takes off from this idea.
Summary: A company of
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Kaylee Arafinwiel
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Sorry I made you cry!
Although, as the Professor says, not all tears are an evil...
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I was vaguely remembering "nostoi" as applied to the various homecomings of the Greek heroes after the Fall of Troy, including Odysseus, and somehow that sort of fed into the idea that the elves on the ship hail from all these different places. I just checked and it's actually a title of a lost epic, isn't it?
Also, the homecoming that isn't has been particularly on my mind, because Keiliss wrote a story about it, featuring Elrond and Erestor, which she has been revising and re-posting recently.
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I think they will need quite some time to settle in, but eventually surely they will. But I don't think they'll lose the nostalgia for those other places.
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The Grey Ship is so laden with memories it is almost ready to sink.
is a perfect line.
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I'm happy you like that line!
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