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[PRIVATE] Nostalgia...is a bitch.

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Alone he walked, hooves crunching on frozen thistles and shrubbery, a man too restless to linger long in the confines of the herd territory. Within the season he had explored every nook, every cranny, every beauty to be had, and it but whetted his thirst. He wanted to see this land, to see what it held, to unlock Oracle's cryptic message that Helovia would be where he would remain, at peace and happy.

Fucking Oracle.

For once, Elrond wished the man had been less cryptic and more open about what he meant. That he would find peace here.... true peace? Or the peace of death? Slowly he ground to a halt, like a machine dearly in need of repair, great neck arched and face uplifted towards the sky as if it offered answers. None were to be found, of course. The sky offered little but beauty thrice every cycle; dawn, dusk and night.

Blue gaze dropped from the clouds above to the frost below, visible only because the sun's relentlessness had yet to sear away the fragile ice. It was that perfect time of early morn where the sun glittered off the frost in a dazzling display, and Elrond found himself entranced. It was days like this where he shut down, preferring to doze the day away in memory, escape the silence of his self-imposed exile, and almost...pretend. Pretend he was a gangly young colt once more, who couldn't be happier with life.

His mind turned to the past, to the memories within. Taurel, Celeborn, Thranduil, Nella.... So many. So far away... gone for a folly he would never know as to it's outcome. Did Thranduil survive? Did his sacrifice do anything? Perhaps not.. but he would suffer. For his brother, for his family... he would suffer, if needed he would take the weight of the world upon his back that they might never feel it's burden. Perhaps that single decision so long ago had been made with the haste of a child, but everytime he considered returning... that damned little golden boy would appear, grinning with pride over some such thing of beauty, his expression one of reverence soaking every word Elrond spoke.

Even now he could practically see him, Thranduil, across the meadow. Although this was no child, but a grown man, ever so glorious in his skin of most precious metal. It made his eyes prick with pride, but slowly he turned his head away. It was foolish to delude himself like this, it caused naught but pain and a weary nostalgia that made him feel far older than he was. Yet... once more he looked, relieved that the visage had not yet faded, that his subconscious would allow him this respite, that he might wonder at what once was.

At what might have been.



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Nostalgia...is a bitch. - by Elrond - 08-07-2015, 10:57 PM
RE: Nostalgia...is a bitch. - by Thranduil - 08-07-2015, 11:55 PM

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