#heartpieced

“Don’t cry, Nóm,” Balan murmured, wiping tears from his lover’s eyes. “It’s alright...it was her time...”

“But she is gone!” Finrod cried. “Gone, and you all watched it, and saw her decline—ai, Balan, how can you bear the weight of it?”

“How can you bear the weight of eternity?” Balan asked. The word he used was oira, a Quenya term, for until now no mortal had any need for the concept of forever, of endlessness. “To live always, and watch the world change around you?”

“For all it is the Quendi who are bound to Arda, and the Atani who are guests here, it seems to me you are better suited to a world of growth and decay,” Finrod whispered. He clutched Balan’s hands tightly. “Ai, beloved—already my heart breaks for thee. What shall I do when you are gone?”

“Have no fear, and do not weep, dear Nóm,” Balan said, firmly clasping his lover’s hands between his own. “I shall follow you home when you must depart, and leave the leadership of my people to my sons; and when old age guides me into death and the world beyond, I will leave you with my memory.”

But this was little comfort to Finrod, who had lived many times the span of a single mortal life, and he wept all the harder. If he grieved now for the peaceful passing of Balan’s great-aunt, how shattered would he be to lose Balan himself, beyond even the reach of Mandos?

“Hmm, haha, that’s for me to know! I need to keep some secrets! But hey, Link, get up already! The day’s just begun and you don’t want to waste it like this. There’s so much we have to do. And sleeping under the tree is not one of them, silly!” 

. . . .

[  ever tried jumping into a dodongos mouth during a fight before? ] 

“But I’m only saying the truth here! These aren’t just empty compliments. I mean it. All of it. You’re really amazing, especially when you put your mind to it and give everything your all.”

O-oh? Was that a surprise doki she’d felt?

Robin (and mun)’s Birthday [accepting]

@heartpieced​ said:  "Ah... um- happy birthday..." Though Link speaks nervously, her words are genuine, evident from the smile on her face.

“Thank you, Link.” Robin was happy to see her friend from the deeper woods again, evident by the happy smile that was all over her face. Not just on her lips, but in her blue eyes as well.