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

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I can see and hear and smell that market. Good to take a moment to think about how traumatic the aftermath of that battle must have been for the folk of the City, especially the Healers, instead of for the principals on the field...

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

I'd actually meant for this to be before the Battle of Pelennor fields (rain threatening and all... I know, pathetic fallacy strikes again!) - maybe after Osgiliath. But yes, after the siege, I think this sort of episode would've happened a lot more frequently and with much more intensity than others, and with far more of a sense of personal threat.