Cuiviénen

Disclaimer: Middle-earth, Aman, and all their inhabitants belong to J.R.R. Tolkien and his estateI am making no money from this, and intend no infringment of copyright.

Summary: All stories have a beginning.

Rating: K.

Thanks to Isis for betaing this.

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A star shines, silver and bright.

The mountain rises, darkness upon darkness.

Branches twine, one upon another, withered by the cold North wind, a tangled thicket of bramble cables to defy the wits of the world.

A bitter tang is in the air, wild and free; far off, the waves hurl and crash. The world's head is crowned with silver foam. Storm-wracked, bleached branches claw the land, ash-grey fingers clinging to rocks worn smooth by time and the passage of the years.

The brambles stir. The breeze changes.

A sighing whisper of motion; the careless grace of slender fingers curling with the languor of sleep.

The air smells of spring and silence.

A breath.


FINIS