olórwen-dream-maiden
At first, she does not know it is a dream. [It is not; it is a memory.] She is walking through dark forests. She is crying. She does not cry. She is - she is - she is some noble-woman-man-maiden - she is going to be exiled. Again. Again. She is going to be exiled again. No place is home.
She did not kill her mother's kin at the swan haven. They are her kin too. She screamed like a mad-woman-beautiful-terrible. She has never wanted anyone to die and now the tall-king-grey-cloaked will send her away from him.
This is why she is crying. That insufferable, beautiful, silver-tree-silver-lord with the easy smile and only-he-only-he can call her to task and she will listen. He gave her a new name. His hair a silver fall over both of their faces, a sweet-sweet-sweet-sweet kiss, and now she is radiant-maiden-crowned-with-light. He is mischievous. Tree-lady maybe. Noldo-no-more.
She is part-Telerin. She is Grey-Elf too (he is Grey-Elf).
It swims away, this scene. She has been trespassing on another life. Serves her right; cheese-before-bedtime; fairy-tales-before-bedtime.
Of course she wakes up crying that nothing is sacred. Nothing is hers.
She did not kill her mother's kin at the swan haven. They are her kin too. She screamed like a mad-woman-beautiful-terrible. She has never wanted anyone to die and now the tall-king-grey-cloaked will send her away from him.
This is why she is crying. That insufferable, beautiful, silver-tree-silver-lord with the easy smile and only-he-only-he can call her to task and she will listen. He gave her a new name. His hair a silver fall over both of their faces, a sweet-sweet-sweet-sweet kiss, and now she is radiant-maiden-crowned-with-light. He is mischievous. Tree-lady maybe. Noldo-no-more.
She is part-Telerin. She is Grey-Elf too (he is Grey-Elf).
It swims away, this scene. She has been trespassing on another life. Serves her right; cheese-before-bedtime; fairy-tales-before-bedtime.
Of course she wakes up crying that nothing is sacred. Nothing is hers.