005; Voice (Backdated to the Seventh)

[utulien_aure]

Private to Elfhouse residents + Anakin

Check in, all of you. And Curvo, Kano, you should come home.

[A pause, then] There's something wrong with Maitimo.

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Doesn't much like the sound of that. Keeps going. ]

[ Fingon appears in the living room when Curufin arrives. ] Can I see him?

[ He's calm but Fingon can surely see the anxiety in his eyes. Maedhros hasn't had the worst possible luck here in hadriel, but he's been killed once already and that certainly isn't the best! Curufin is worried that he might be dead again, and with Hope incapacitated, this is a bad time for that. He just wants to see for himself what the situation is, even though he trusts Fingon's perceptions. ]

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[utulien_aure]

[If there's something to like about the situation, Fingon hasn't found it yet.]

Of course. Come in.

[Fingon leads him down to Maedhros' room, a sense of helpless frustration radiating outward. Behind the bedroom door is Maedhros, who still seems perfectly well if not for the problem at hand.]

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ It's a thoroughly unlikable situation! ]

Thank you, cousin. [ Not that Curufin doesn't feel he has any place here, Maedhros being his eldest brother, but tbh, since it was Fingon who had gone to the trouble of rescuing Maedhros all those years ago, Curufin feels that bumps his cousin up in the family hierarchy. Far up. Not the kingship, but the rescue. The thing that really matters. ]

[ He stands in the doorway for a moment, taking in the sight of his sleeping brother. The red hair is spilled out on the pillows and the red eyelashes veil the unseen gray eyes. The sleeper breathes softly, and he looks as though he is far away in some unknown dream country. Curufin comes to the bedside and sits down on the edge. He brushes a strand of that brilliant hair back from his brother's forehead. He speaks softly. ]

Wherever you are, Maitimo, I hope it is some kindly place from which you may soon return. Those who love you await you.