Melting into Slush by Himring
Fanwork Notes
Written for the December Insta-drabbling session on the SWG Discord. For details on the prompt see the end notes.
Warning for referenced (canonically likely) deaths of unnamed characters.
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Summary:
After the slaying of Brodda, the stronger among the rebels who aided Turin are driven to take up a life as fugitives in the mountains of Dor-lomin in the middle of a grim winter. Asgon is their leader or one of their leaders.
Major Characters: Edain, House of Hador, Asgon
Major Relationships:
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges:
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 101 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is complete.
Melting into Slush
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Asgon regarded the wet, large snowflakes falling into the slush, melting. Meltwater was already beginning to trickle in rivulets down the mountain slope as the morning advanced. There had been signs previously that the winter was failing at last, but Asgon had watched them dully and distrustfully. Winter had been too long, too treacherous, too hard. Now at last he began hoping that his little band of outlaws might survive into spring without any more deaths.
He wondered how Turin was doing. The journey south must have been equally dangerous, but surely Hurin’s son still lived. But to what fortune?
Chapter End Notes
The prompt was:
Dumped wet and momentary on a dull ground / that’s been clear but clearly sleeping, for days. / Last snow melts as it falls, piles up slush, runs in first light
The source of these lines is Last Snow, by Heid E. Erdrich.
100 words in MS Word.
