This is more of a flashback of sorts, thinking back on the time the twins were only a few weeks old and had laughed for the first time.
When the twins laughed laughed for the first time, back when they were still tiny infants, they laughed in sync.
They still laughed in sync whenever they were together, which was all the time.
It was the most endearing sound, and also the most hilarious.
Even when the mood was at its darkest, when Fëanàro and Nerdanel were tense with one another after an argument, when Kanafinwë curses Huan leaves paw prints on his scatter music sheets, when Moryo turns beet-red with anger, when Turko flips his hair over dramatically , Curvo makes a face that looks like one of those little cross-eyed faces for the babies, or when Neylo is ripping up a written paper he is not satisfied with, their high-pitched giggles would ring out together at the exact same time.
But Ambarussa had laughed for the first time together, it had been Mahtan who had been the cause, on one of his visits.
"It was the beard," Nerdanel had told Fëanàro, smiling with twinkling eyes when he found father and daughter in the room together.
Mahtan was holding both babies close, their little fists clinging onto his beard of red, which matched his grandsons' blazing manes.
When they pulled, Mahtan made a strong grimace, and the twins giggled together at the same time, which had everyone in the room laughing to tears at such a beautiful sound they had never heard of before with two babies in sync.
"They no not what pain is," Mahtan later tells him, "so they will grow feeling joy in even in the face of sorrow."
Fëanàro loved hearing his youngest sons' laughter, which bounced together like a quick diddle from Makalaurë's lute, for it always soothed his heart as it soothed others.
(He envied their ability to laugh away the sorrow on his wife's face, and his own).
