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

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah, potpourri isn't a favorite word of mine, either, but it does have something going for it: it is only one word. :-D

I'm almost drawing a symbolic analogy here between the weather and the mood in the Houses of Healing--something like material goods might help to heal the body, but not the mind, of its wounds.

Exactly - and since in my mind, this is after Osgiliath but before Pelennor, the possibility of them having to face another major battle is in the air, too. They're not out of the woods yet, they're just taking a break from being terrified and exhausted.