B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Botany G54 - athelas
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Angst, fix-it
Rating: T
Warnings: Referenced incest, referenced suicide attempt
Characters: Niënor, Lalaith
Creator’s Notes: Things going better for several of Hurin's children does not actually mean things going well for said children.
Summary: She is only nine summers old, Niënor, but already she knows that not all creatures are like her. She is only nine summers old, and she has not yet learned which of the others are to be feared, and so she approaches the girl with a heart vast as the sky, a heart that she knows her mother would scold her for not keeping shut.

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