Evandar

This is really excellent work -- I love how understated it is, but you manage to convey so much in the few words there are. And you include all this extra character narration and worldbuilding in -- we really get a sense of how much there was going on behind the scenes, that we're not privy to since it's only dwarf culture. So effective, and you take us to this inevitable conclusion that is so heartbreaking in how much it leaves unsaid (since we all know how the earlier events went, too). Really liked the LOTR-era callback to The Hobbit!