Tears
The hot tears were burned off his cheeks as he fell, plunging into the fiery abyss below.
And finally he knew, knew what it must have felt like for her all those years ago, soaring down through the harsh sea-wind and into the icy cold ocean with a splash and no scream.
He had always wondered what it had felt like.
He had lain awake at night, wondering what it had been like to fall like that, to plummet to your death.
Well now he knew.
He saw her first, a dark phantom in shimmering blue, running out from a rocky sea-cave.
"Search the cave!" he yelled and Maglor nodded before he, Maedhros, sped after her.
He could see it in her hands, twinkling brightly through the gaps in her fingers as she ran.
He had never known a maiden to run so fast, she fairly flew! And it was all he could do to keep up with her.
He smiled as they neared the cliff, the edge, the end.
She would have to stop and give up the Silmaril to him when she reached it.
He watched as she barely slowed down at the edge, looking down and then looking back at him, eyes hard, tears like pearls of glass on her dark lashes, radiant from the gem's light.
He remembered how his own eyes had widened, realizing what she intended to do.
"No, my lady, stop! Do not jump! Stop!" he cried in horror, voice rising with a last cry as she turned and leapt from the cliffside and up into the clear night sky, thick dark hair billowing behind her in the wind, "I never wanted this!"
He turned away in horror, not having the heart to look for her body, surely floating forlornly now, cradled by the current.
Well now he knew.
The memory of a cool night and a sea breeze subsided to a reality of hot fires and scalding smoke, and he wondered if her tears joined the sea as his joined the smoke, never to be seen again.
Ugh, I'm sick and feeling miserable right now...DX...your welcome for the Maedhros and Elwing angst(gosh, I really don't write enough about her)
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