Day 114: Radiance

[tanaquiljall]

tianaluthien asked for the first meeting of Celeborn and Galadriel.

Day 114

as part of the Celevron a Mallen series.

Radiance

Sunlight filtered slowly down amongst the shadowed boles, sieved green and sepia. The new lights – even the errant moon – still troubled Celeborn, familiar only with soft starbeams breaking into the long groves. Yet the halls of Menegroth were no refuge: filled now with distant kinsmen whose bright anger burned like noon.

Moving between pools of deep shadow, he caught a flash of brighter gold in the distance. The gold moved closer: a maid's tresses that had snared the sun.

With a quick shiver that might have been fear – or might not – Celeborn knew he must learn to love the day.