b2mem | The seagull by Isilloth

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number:Women of Arda - O75 Elwing
Format: Double drabble
Genre: gen
Rating: gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Elwing
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes (optional):
Summary: Elwing is changed into a bird

Elwing was flying above the sea. She felt the wind in her wings (yes, she had wings!), salt in her beak. She was free.

She was prepared for death when she jumped off the cliff. She thought it was all she could count on – the cold embrace of the sea. But the miracle had happened. She didn’t know why, but somehow she was changed. She took a form of a white bird, a seagull and she lived.

She felt the weight of the Silmaril on her breast. She saved it from the murderers' hands, and now she was heading to her husband, who was on the sea. Long she didn’t see him and she hoped he would forgive her. For not protecting their people and their children. Their children were lost, and she wept over their fate. But there was nothing she could do, under the attack. The violence of the enemies, who didn’t even spare her sons, as they didn’t spare her brothers.

She was falling out of strength. Luckily, she already saw the ship on the horizon. It was only a few flapping her wings from there. She dropped abroad and she was safe. Truly safe, for once.