Link to Kindness Repaid

whitewave16 compared surgicalsteel's and my crossover fics to a duet or a tennis match. Here's what Steel lobbed back in response to my Kindness of Strangers which is under f-lock for the moment to avoid spoilers for those who don't care to take a guess about certain aspects and characters of my story arc or those upon whom I have not yet inflicted my mad notions.

Kindness Repaid.

Needless to say, my dark muse is wildly flattered by his accurate portrayal in this entertaining and provocative short story. Kindness Repaid is also a sequel to Steel's Survivors of the Downfall, a most satisfying account of the aftermath of the downfall of Númenor which gives a nod to the realities behind "Mannish myths."