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[handofsilver]

What you have seen in the mirrors is no different from experiencing a nightmare while you slumber. The images need not be reality, though if that must be so, I encourage you to face them bravely. They are the worst, are they not? All else is, therefore, better, by comparison, at least.

(He, for one, refuses to give his enemy (one of the Enemies of his world) power over him. It helps that he is surrounded by his kin and they are daily reminders of why - and how - he can overcome.)

You are not alone in your suffering.

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[utulien_aure]

You needn't worry about me. As for my visions...

[He's silent for a moment.]

I suspect anyone who survived Beleriand would have seen them with waking eyes, sooner or later.

Being dead, of course, means that I didn't.

[handofsilver]

(Celebrimbor knows of what Fingon speaks. It has become ingrained in his memories.)

Yes. There has been so much and so many lost. You will see them in the Halls and I know you will give them a warm welcome.

[utulien_aure]

[Fingon rather suspects that to be the case. Somehow that suspicion doesn't inspire a lot of desire to discuss thing with everyone else.]

A cold comfort, don't you think? They deserved better.

[handofsilver]

Most deserve better than a frightening death. (But it happens nonetheless and Celebrimbor knows he is powerless to stop it.) We can only attend to the pieces after.

[utulien_aure]

I know. [He admits heavily.]

But it never stops feeling like there is something more you could have done.