Day 2 of B2MEM:
Prompts used: "Manwë/Varda"; "we"; Drabble including the words: "smith", "cradle", "consonance" and "mantle".
Children of Ainur
Unlike Elves and Men, Ainur have no concept called family. No newborns will live in their halls, no cradle rock by the chair. Oromë may be the son of Yavanna, but Aulë the smith isn't his father and Yavanna didn't give birth to him.
Manwë and Varda wished for a child. But as Eru hadn't given them one, they would never have one. However, one night as they stood beneath a mantle of clouds fleeting across a starfilled sky, they came to a consonance: they needed no children. They had both their creations, but, above all else, they had each other.