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[saviorpattcrn]

Goooooooood morning my darlings. I have entered work and let’s just say 

^he is me. i is he. 

I hope you’re all having less chaotic mornings than I am xD 

[captainderyn]

Day 14: Confidant

Prompt number: 14. “I can’t come back.” 

Fandom: LOTRO

Rating: Gen

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Note: Another short one today because energy is lacking ;-; 

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Traveling with Wulfwryn had become a study in contradictions. No, knowing Wulfwryn was a study in contradictions. Here was a warrior from a grand human city, willfully turning away from her prestigious position and heritage. A human loving an elf. A warrior who didn’t seek the kill. 

The position she had left behind and the home with it fascinated Raenor the most. He had asked her about it, many times over, only to get the same noncommittal answer. It wasn’t a topic she seemed particularly keen to share on, much like an open wound that one kept guarded close away from the painful touch, even if it would help. 

Eventually Raenor stopped asking. It wasn’t pressing for him to know, it wasn’t a matter of life and death but instead simple curiosity. 

As it came to light, one evening by the heat of their fire beneath a rocky outcropping in the North Downs, he only had to stop asking to be granted an answer. 

Wulfwryn toyed with the loose end of her plaited hair before sighing loudly enough that it drew Raenor from the mindless state of strumming of his lute he had let himself sink into. “Hm?” 

“You always ask me why I don’t just return to Minas Tirith.” She looking up at him. “Or why I ever left in the first place.” 

The hand that he held up was waved away. “I know you said you didn’t need an answer, but I’m tired of mulling it over alone.” The firelight shadowed her eyes, making them haunted in the shadow. But her expression was hopelessly open to him. “May I?” 

Relief shouldn’t have been so apparent across her face at his simple nod--how long had she been letting this eat away at her? 

“I can’t go back.” even just saying the words seemed to lift a weight off of her shoulders--slumping them down like she no longer had to hold them up and back. “At least...not right now.” 

Raenor tilted his head. There were rumors, certainly, things that Elrond had mentioned in passing, shards of a sword in Rivendell’s halls. None of which he was graced enough to know in full. “Because of the king?” 

“And lack there of.” she agreed, wrapping her arms around herself. “In Gondor...the Stewards rule in the king’s stead. Denethor no longer does his job as he should. There’s a certain paranoia and pain overshadowing him, controlling his actions...I couldn’t keep fighting under that banner.” 

Her voice dropped, almost too quiet to be heard among the sounds of night, rustling trees, and the crackling of their fire. “I want to fight under the banner of Isildur’s heir, if he still exists.” 

The title nudged a small sense of familiarity in the back of Raenor’s mind, some long distant mumbling of Elrond that he had long since forgotten. “You still have hope.” 

For a moment he thought she didn’t hear him, her pause long and uncertain as she drew an idle pattern over the material of her trousers. When she finally lifted her eyes again they were clouded with the uncertainty of her pause, but her voice was strong as stone. “I have to. If I don’t then I turned my back needlessly on my fellows and may be just as good as a traitor. And I cannot stand myself as a traitor.” 

Reaching across the gap between them, Raenor rested his fingertips on the back of her hand. “If you found cause to leave, then you aren’t a traitor.” 

Flipping her hand, she twined her fingers with his. “I have to keep believing that.” 

[earthtooz]

STOP TALKING ABT KAISER I DONT WANT TO THINK ABT THAT FIC

GO TO UNI AND STOP BOTHERING ME BRO LEAVE ME ALONE !!

[atonement420]

also side eye @ people there treating frankenstein as if it’s a religious text and has to be treated as absolute truth

[shdocws]

i have been yelling about red headed tae all day and i won’t be stopping so i’m sorry?

[tomastuchel]

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What was it supposed to be?

idek lmao what am i 

[cruelwolfishgirls]

feelin hella dumb still not grasping what an eigenfunction is, but i guess most of u guys dont know either so