Gain your bearings, by Starlight (Éowyn)

[starli-ght.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: b1 Forth Éorlingas: Shieldmaiden; n38 Steward and his sons: Captain of the Ithilien Rangers
Format: Drabble
Genre:
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: Éowyn
Pairings: Éowyn/Faramir
Summary: Fighting is not the hardest thing she's ever done.

She had grown calling great deeds courage, but had lately learned that one can do the impossible and remain a coward.

Fight. Dissemble. Lose. Kill. Breathe. These things she could do.

What Éowyn daughter of Éomund could not do was remain tranquil before the Steward's insistent shower of respect. Of interest. Of affection. That a captain of men understood what bravery she needed, that he demanded nothing, upset her.

Giving one's heart to another-- this she could do.

But receive someone's heart?

Feel?

Want?

In her years she had learned to survive, but had never learned to live.

~the end

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Lovely drabble, and fantastic last line.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Having had the ability and necessity to wall herself away from everything happening outside of herself, to have to suddenly crack the shielding open and allow light must have been very difficult. Well done, love your final line.

- Erulisse (one L)

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

What a brilliant character study of Eowyn. I do admire the ability to write a drabble like this.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

I adore this! I do believe you've captured her exactly.

[shirebound]

Oh my, that's beautiful.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

A great insight into Eowyn.