New Challenge: Crossroads of the Fallen King
Cross "The Silmarillion" with a second text or fandom in this month's crossover challenge.
The path ended at one of the dry tributaries of the Mindeb, not yet a river at this latitude. Great rounded boulders strewn across the stream bed loomed over smoothed pits, each with its own clutch of smaller rounded rocks. She stopped for a moment, closing her eyes and reaching out her arms to scry the path.
Lúthien smiled. She saw the passing of Beren clear in her mind as an arrow, the living essence of his presence etched upon the rocks, fresh and verdant as their love. Swiftly she passed beside his trail and through the Pass of Anach.