"Then I will sing you to sleep until you hit me with your pillow," he teased. Their child would not be endangered by that - except perhaps through poor song! A laugh and Elros grinned at her.

"Only by half! You see him all serious and humorless but I know better!" Any brother of Elros' had to have at least a little humor.

But he couldn't lie to his beloved. "Again, only by half," he admitted, eyes dancing. "He will be here within the month, or I do not know my brother." She was simply that far along, and Elros rather suspected his brother wished to be there for the birth.

To tease him, if nothing else.