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b2memB2MeM Challenge: Winter Wonderland - B4
Format: Drabble
Genre: family
Rating: Gen
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Aragorn, OCs
Pairings: n/a
Creators' Notes (optional): Takes place during "Winter in Arnor", during Aragorn's first winter with the Dunedain.
Summary: Aragorn finds out that ice is not only a nuisance during the winter, but can actually be useful.
“Explain this to me again, please, Aunt,” Aragorn requested of his mother’s sister-in-law Dulinnis, once Aelfgifu of Rohan. He was studying the vessels that she and his Uncle Beren had brought to Taduin. Several of them contained a thick syrup, others contained cakes of a brown, grainy substance that smelled just as sweet. One of the clay jars of syrup was being heated over a fire, and Dulinnis’ children were gathering bowls of ice.
Dulinnis laughed. “Get on with you, lad, and help the children gather the ice! Then you will see!”
Bemused, Aragorn did as he was bid. He saw that the ice was being poured into a wooden trough, around which the children ranged. When it was heaped with clean ice, the boiling syrup was ladled over it; his eyes widened as it cooled into something he’d never seen before.
“It’s maple sweets, Aragorn! Come try it!” Drauchir, Uncle Beren’s youngest, advised him. The ten-year-old was greedily devouring it in sticky handfuls; Aragorn tore off a piece for his own, and his eyes lit up.
Never did we have this in Imladris! He felt envious. Winter was mild in Elrond’s realm. If only he had grown up here…
Format: Drabble
Genre: family
Rating: Gen
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Aragorn, OCs
Pairings: n/a
Creators' Notes (optional): Takes place during "Winter in Arnor", during Aragorn's first winter with the Dunedain.
Summary: Aragorn finds out that ice is not only a nuisance during the winter, but can actually be useful.
“Explain this to me again, please, Aunt,” Aragorn requested of his mother’s sister-in-law Dulinnis, once Aelfgifu of Rohan. He was studying the vessels that she and his Uncle Beren had brought to Taduin. Several of them contained a thick syrup, others contained cakes of a brown, grainy substance that smelled just as sweet. One of the clay jars of syrup was being heated over a fire, and Dulinnis’ children were gathering bowls of ice.
Dulinnis laughed. “Get on with you, lad, and help the children gather the ice! Then you will see!”
Bemused, Aragorn did as he was bid. He saw that the ice was being poured into a wooden trough, around which the children ranged. When it was heaped with clean ice, the boiling syrup was ladled over it; his eyes widened as it cooled into something he’d never seen before.
“It’s maple sweets, Aragorn! Come try it!” Drauchir, Uncle Beren’s youngest, advised him. The ten-year-old was greedily devouring it in sticky handfuls; Aragorn tore off a piece for his own, and his eyes lit up.
Never did we have this in Imladris! He felt envious. Winter was mild in Elrond’s realm. If only he had grown up here…
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Date: 2016-03-25 08:27 pm (UTC)A truly sweet little piece :)
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Date: 2016-03-25 08:59 pm (UTC)I've never tried maple candy, but I heard of it, or rather read of it, when reading 'Indian Captive' by Lois Lenski when I was 10 years old. (We did, however, get to try pure Vermont maple syrup in small cups. Very different from the corn syrup/maple-flavor stuff we mostly get in the grocery store, that. I haven't had any so good before or since...)
The lifestyle of the Iroquois very much informs my headcanon for the Northern Dunedain, I find. :)
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Date: 2016-11-30 04:01 am (UTC)Aww, I love this little drabble!! I lived in Montreal when I was in grade 2, the maple candy here is exactly what I remembered from my own experience! And it was as novel to me back then as to Aragorn. It's one of my fondest memories of winter! Thank you very much!
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