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Title: A Last Toast
Author: Alex
Type: Double drabble
Notes: For Talullahred. For you, it had to be Cirdan.
Summary: A quiet chat.
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A LAST TOAST
Cirdan sipped his wine and looked at his companion. They had known each for so many years, so many, many years.
“Do you look forward to sailing?” He had to ask. As close as he had been to Gandalf, he seldom knew what the other thought.
“I think if it were my choice, I would stay here.”
“Why, might I ask?” He shouldn’t have been surprised.
Gandalf looked out to the sea and his eyes got an even farther away look. “I have been here for so many years, helping both firstborn and secondborn. I should like to see what man does with these lands when we have sailed. I have come to love Arda. Even marred, it is more home to me than anywhere else.”
“Do you think they will care for it as we have?”
Gandalf shrugged. “Some will be good stewards. Some will not. But we have done all we can. We have taught them all we know. It is time to go home. Even for you, my friend, even for you.”
They rose and headed out to the harbor where the tall ship with pure white sails waited for them, to take them home at last.
~end~
Author: Alex
Type: Double drabble
Notes: For Talullahred. For you, it had to be Cirdan.
Summary: A quiet chat.
~~
A LAST TOAST
Cirdan sipped his wine and looked at his companion. They had known each for so many years, so many, many years.
“Do you look forward to sailing?” He had to ask. As close as he had been to Gandalf, he seldom knew what the other thought.
“I think if it were my choice, I would stay here.”
“Why, might I ask?” He shouldn’t have been surprised.
Gandalf looked out to the sea and his eyes got an even farther away look. “I have been here for so many years, helping both firstborn and secondborn. I should like to see what man does with these lands when we have sailed. I have come to love Arda. Even marred, it is more home to me than anywhere else.”
“Do you think they will care for it as we have?”
Gandalf shrugged. “Some will be good stewards. Some will not. But we have done all we can. We have taught them all we know. It is time to go home. Even for you, my friend, even for you.”
They rose and headed out to the harbor where the tall ship with pure white sails waited for them, to take them home at last.
~end~