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Explain This

Allusive Prompt: caught between a rock and a hard place

Four word Prompt: golden, light, speak, alone

“Speak.”

“How am I to speak, Lord-father?”

“Swiftly, before my patience wears thin and you find yourself in a worse position than you already are.”

“Melyanna-sister’s nightingale daughter and one of the golden Hounds of Oromë-father’s train came, seeking a thrall.”

“You were wounded by a girl and a dog.”

“Oromë-father’s hounds are not insignificant foes, Lord-father. And Lúthien Tinúviel is a permaia, with power unaccounted for. She's an aberration of the Music, to be sure, but one that –”

“Enough. Your failure cost me, though you may count yourself lucky she took only one of the last vestiges of light.”