The Old Grey Widow-Maker
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b2memPrompt: Bramley’s A Hopeless Dawn
Format: Ficlet
Genre: gen
Rating: gen
Warnings: none
Characters: Amandil, Mairen (Lady!Sauron)
Pairings: none
Summary: The King’s prisoner is about to take ship to Númenor. It might be part of the Revelator ‘verse.
“What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
to go with the old grey Widow-maker?”
Hearing those words, Amandil turned in surprise and looked at the King’s prisoner. She stood behind him at the dock, staring out at the grey sea.
“Have you not been at sea, lady?”
“Not in many years,” she answered. “I respect the sea, its power, its ever-changing nature, but I do not like it.”
“Why not?” he asked.
She smiled slightly before she answered. “I was born of fire,” she said softly. “I have no sway at sea.
The verse is Kipling’s “Harp Song of the Dane Women.”
Format: Ficlet
Genre: gen
Rating: gen
Warnings: none
Characters: Amandil, Mairen (Lady!Sauron)
Pairings: none
Summary: The King’s prisoner is about to take ship to Númenor. It might be part of the Revelator ‘verse.
“What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
to go with the old grey Widow-maker?”
Hearing those words, Amandil turned in surprise and looked at the King’s prisoner. She stood behind him at the dock, staring out at the grey sea.
“Have you not been at sea, lady?”
“Not in many years,” she answered. “I respect the sea, its power, its ever-changing nature, but I do not like it.”
“Why not?” he asked.
She smiled slightly before she answered. “I was born of fire,” she said softly. “I have no sway at sea.
The verse is Kipling’s “Harp Song of the Dane Women.”
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Date: 2020-03-04 10:47 am (UTC)