New Challenge: Allusive
Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.
Maglor wanders the shore and inhales its salt-water scent in the mornings. He finds comfort in this routine, while weeks, years, or perhaps ages pass him over. Pass him through, he thinks, as a sound that could pass for laughter escapes him.
At times, he thinks, better the wound had not healed at all, that his flesh still wept fresh from the burn: a reason for his tears. A meaning.
For where reason and meaning lead, he thinks, an ending must follow.
Yet watching his hands move under sea-water, he feels no pain.
In his flesh, long-healed, only numbness remains.