Death is Black and White by LadyBrooke

[ladybrooke]

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Black and White - Blue Path
Format: Drabble & Art
Genre: Drabble - Horror & Drama; Art - Illuminated Manuscript?
Rating: Adult
Warnings: Character death; Human sacrifice via burning
Characters: OCs, Sauron
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): Quote in art from The Silmarillion, "Akallabêth", pg 328 in the Kindle edition.
Summary: In Númenor, men will even sacrifice their family members for Sauron


She burns, and her dress turns black from the soot and the fire, crumbling away to ashes as she screams.

Her brother stands next to Sauron, who he calls Tar-Marion, cloaked in white. The same white that her dress was, the same white their mother was buried in and their father was slaughtered in. Sauron smiles as she screams, and says that this will bring blessings down upon Númenor.

She stops screaming as her entire body turns into black ash and black smoke that fills the air.

Her brother’s clothes turn black as he exits the temple into the smoke.



Sorry for the bad scan quality, I'm not used to this scanner and even after an hour of fiddling with it, this is the best I can get. :/

Comments

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

Oh, I liked this very much! Not the fact that the poor girl died, but the way you wrote the story!

[ladybrooke]

Thank you! I'm glad you like the way I wrote it, and I agree with you - I don't like that the girl died, either (even though I wrote it).