Artifacts of Ice by Lferion
Fanwork Notes
Written for Fan Flashworks, prompt: Foot, and the SWG New Years Resolution Challenge: May 2021 - A book by its cover
On AO3: here
On Fan Flashworks here
Many thanks to Zhie, Runa and Ann for encouragement and sanity-checking.
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Summary:
Fingon's new hröa did not cross the Ice.
Major Characters: Fingon
Major Relationships:
Genre: Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General
Challenges: Book by Its Cover, New Year's Resolution
Rating: General
Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 105 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is complete.
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Fingon contemplated his feet. The feet of this Returned, Remade hröa, in which he was Rehoused. (Not Reborn. Reborn was reserved for those who had died thralls and worse, or killed as young children.) To all outward appearance unmarked, undamaged. (Also un-callused and tender to walk on, not to mention painfully ticklish. He'd forgotten that.) His original toes were all present and accounted for, all the marks of the Ice erased. Erased. But not forgotten.
His feet were cold this bright, crisp morning. His toes ached, un-warmed by the sunlight. The fëa wrote deeply in the hröa, old and new.
I hadn't thought of that…
I hadn't thought of that cover as looking a bit grim, but after this little fic, I think that's changed!
As soon as I saw the prompt,…
As soon as I saw the prompt, I knew what it was going to be....
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