O68 - Of Times There Were Before

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Challenge: O68 - Smells (Pipeweed)
Author: Azalais
Title: Of Times There Were Before
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: an unnamed Elf of Rivendell, in the Fourth Age
Pairings: none
Summary: Long ago they sailed away...

Of Times There Were Before

Much of Imladris stands empty, now.  Feet ring hollow along once-thronging halls;  dust which danced in the sunbeams settles undisturbed.

He drifts between chambers, aimless, knowing he should shake off this mood and go outside to practice-ground or stables;  yet he cannot tear himself away from the memories, murmuring in so many now-departed voices.

Odd traces remain, even in scrupulously-tidied places.  A single earring left on a windowsill.  The pale blank wall where a favourite painting once hung.  And in one small, round-windowed room at a corridor’s end… the lingering scent, fruity and sharp and autumnal, of pipeweed.

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Thank you! The prompt was from the "Smells" card, and the first thing I always associate with scents is memories, so...