On Apping to eachdraidh...

[rangerandking]

A new journey suits me, Lady. The decisions you have to make are imperative to my placement within this "fairy realm". Judge my attributes fairly and I shall gladly lend my sword to the most worthy cause.

{He smiles and bows his head, touching the hilt of the sword sheathed at his side.}

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[utterlyspent]

[ Her smile widens and her hands come to rest on his chest. ]

You need not say it, but I am glad to hear it. We will be together, this I believe. Tis only a matter of who will send me to you.

[rangerandking]

{His heart warms and he feels calm upon see in her smile. There is something healing and steadying about her presence. Even Estel had been drawn in by her charms.

But there is more between them now that he is grown. It terrifies him to think of living without her, though he realizes that there will come a time she has to live without him.

It isn't fair - what they have - yet...

She is his weakness.}

I will shield you from every ill thing that attempts to touch you in Drabworld. I hear it is a harsh land, but I will arrive armed.

[utterlyspent]

[ She would tell him not to think of the love in hos heart as a weakness, but a strength. For it she will face the doom of men and a fate unknown beyond the gates of death. For it she will endure the loss of her family and forsake the journey to the undying lands.

No pain is too great to bear if they can but shoulder it together, and what is that if not strength? ]

I am not afraid, Aragorn.