Market Day by Dwimordene

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Economy: Market Day; Aspects of Aragorn: Healer
Format: Drabble
Genre: Character Study
Rating: Teen
Warnings:
Characters: Ioreth
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Prices as marked, amnesia not included.

Market Day

Ioreth loves market days: the colors, smells, the ring of lively voices. After a long, quiet stretch in the Houses, with only men’s moans and whispers — A Eru, a Weeper, help me! Stop – my god, my god, my –  ! — and the occasional else, market day’s excitement brings relief.

And she’ll find flowers from afar there, delightful woodland herbs — Potpourri, the Warden orders tersely; I can smell that battle still! — and bangles.

One can buy anything on market, save good weather: rain sends folk scrambling for cover. Ioreth clutches her Imloth Melui rosehips, looks skyward, and with a shudder hurries home.

Comments

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

This has a delightful hopeful feel to it - and perfectly Ioreth-y, too, I think. It amused me how it was precisely the opposite of my own mood, though the weather was much the same. I do think, though, that these are two important paths to bearing up under nightmare-inducing traumas. Nicely done, in any case. This piece had a very nice, palpable mood to it.

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty grey day here, too. I figure Ioreth has her ways of coping with the traumatic aspects of her job. Otherwise, I don't know how she stays sane enough to come in for the rebukes she does.