Market Day by Dwimordene

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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.

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[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

Ioreth fangirls, unite! I've become a big Ioreth fan since about 2003, and love it when an opportunity to write her comes along. For my money, she is a tough old lady, not to be underestimated, even by wizards and would-be kings.