Carry Us Home

[tar_minyatur]

WHO: Elros and you
WHAT: Celebrating a Sea Rescue
WHEN: nowish
WHERE: down by the docks in one of those seedy taverns
NOTES: relevant crystal post here

It's winter, it's dangerous to go out to sea. But when you live in the poor areas, when there's no food on the table, what's a man to do? And when the ship goes down, then all you can do is pray that someone's there to pull you out. Lucky for this crew, Elros was there.

The tavern is noisy and boisterous, and the rescuers and rescuees alike are sopping wet, wrapped in blankets, with mugs of hot ale shoved into their hands. Elros took a slop and some brave souls out, the minute he realised, jumped in with a rope around his waist to pull the sailors in, and somehow they've come out of this mess without a single soul lost. He's leading them all in a rousing chorus of a popular Falathrim sea shanty that every sailor on his own world knows.

On a cold winters night
With a storm at its height
The lifeboat answered the call.
They pitched and they tossed
Till we thought they were lost
As we watched from the harbor wall.

Though the night was pitch black,
There was no turning back,
For someone was waiting out there,
But each volunteer
Had to live with his fear
As they joined in a silent prayer.

Carry us home, home, home from the sea
Sweet Lady Uinen, answer our plea
And carry us home, home, home from the sea
Carry us safely home from the sea!

Care to join them?

There's injuries too, cuts and scrapes and one head wound that Elros is hovering over worriedly, but the man in question is sitting up and talking, so that's something, at least.

Comments

[utulien_aure]

Fingon has to snort at that look-clearly there are a few other stories he needs to tell about his eldest cousins. It wouldn't do at all to give Elros the wrong idea of his guardians.

"No, I'm afraid Aunt Nerdanel put her foot down that time. Stray birds and kittens were one thing, but a pet that could eat a toddler? Not a good idea in that house."

He grins as Elros nearly keel over. Clearly, his work is done.

"He did improve, eventually. If one is going to be fair. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try the impression on Maedhros, and see if he still has the ability to laugh."