Fever Without Ice by lirin

[lirin_lirilla]

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Four Words 2 - ocean, thousand, ceramic, fever (G57)
Format: drabble
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: illness
Characters: Ioreth, Faramir
Pairings: n/a
Summary: "But Faramir burned with a fever that would not abate."

The Lord Faramir lay still and silent on his bed, as if dead already. But spurning the coldness of death, his body burned with a fever that not even an ocean could cool. Ioreth lifted a ceramic cup of spring water to his lips—the coldest water they could get without having ice, and there had been no ice since the roads were blocked.

If only Gondor had a king, with hands that would bring healing. But there was no king; and so Ioreth raised the cup to Faramir's lips: once, twice, a thousand times—and still, the fever burned.

Comments

[erulissedances]

Oh, you managed to put Ioreth into a really nice view here, instead of being somewhat annoying. Well done!

- Erulisse (one L)

[lirin_lirilla]

Thank you! I'm quite fond of Ioreth; she may not always be a good judge of when it's a good time for talking at length, but she's very good at her job.

[shirebound]

Dear Ioreth! She's a wonderful character.

[lirin_lirilla]

Thanks! I like her a lot. :-)

[zdenka]

I really like Ioreth's dedication here! She may be a chatterbox in canon, but I also believe she's competent and cares about her patients.

[lirin_lirilla]

Thank you! And I agree on all points—after all, she's one of the few women whose skills were thought to be so indispensable that she stayed in the city when almost all the women were sent away.

[senalishia]

Great encapsulation of that desperate feeling in only a few words

[lirin_lirilla]

Thank you! I was frustrated with this diverse assortment of words at first, but I was quite happy once it "clicked" and I realized what they needed to be!

[kayleearafinwiel]

oh, Ioreth, for once not overly chatty but caring for Faramir almost as a mother, the mother he's been deprived of for so long. Bless Ioreth for that.

[lirin_lirilla]

Thank you! Faramir is well loved by all of his people, and Ioreth is no exception!

[lindahoyland]

This was beautiful.