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senalishia ([personal profile] senalishia) wrote in [community profile] b2mem2019-03-01 02:54 pm

Prey, by Senalishia

Prey, by Senalishia

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: “Women of the Silmarillion” - G48: Villainesses
Format: Double Drabble
Genre: Horror
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Violence
Characters: Thuringwethil, unfortunate elf OC
Pairings: None
Summary: Thuringwethil does a good job guarding the Orc camp, and that is its own reward.


Thuringwethil flitted and wheeled through the star-lit air over the encamped armies of the orcs. She never missed a chance to soar free from the stink of cookfires and unwashed bodies, but nevertheless earned her keep guarding their borders.

Beneath her, on the edge of the forest, she heard it, smelled it, felt the warmth of its body. There, up in that tree where it thought it was hiding. She passed over lower, on silent wing, and caught a glimpse of it. A creeping, skulking elf spy.

On her next pass she dove straight for it, crashing through branches to knock it off its perch onto the ground. She pinned it beneath her knee, hooked a claw into the soft flesh under its chin just enough to tease out a pearl of blood.

“What did you see?” she hissed as she prodded at its thoughts. “Who did you tell?”

But the elf closed its eyes and its mind and did not answer. She rarely got any information out of them.

She pulled her claw away ungently and tore at its throat with her teeth, ripping away skin and sinew and gulping down the hot blood that welled out from underneath.
elleth: Melkor raising his arms before a starry background, with the text "Disco arose about Melkor" (Silm: Disco Melkor)

[personal profile] elleth 2019-03-11 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I never gave a lot of thought to how Thuringwethil might hunt - that bit about her crashing the elf out of the tree really struck me, pun not intended. Love the sensory details here, too - the pearl of blood, the stench of bodies and cooking fires, Thuringwehtil sensing the elf's warmth - very nice job!