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

[starli-ght.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited we get to read all this awesome B2MeM writing again, and I love your first Drabble. Your language is always so delightful to read, and you use it to great advantage here: Ioreth's reality is, in truth, all that suffering (that you showcase in that brief, meaningful line, with all those lovely bold and italicizes typefaces. Love!). One has to find the joy, though, despite the rain (which is so meaningful at the end, too). Well done!

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Starlight! Glad you liked the interrupting line - sometimes that sort of intrusion can really make a story.

I look forward to reading your entries tomorrow! There are so many in general - fandom's really hopping right now. It's great!