The First to Die
Who would be first, she would ask, How will I know?
You will know, he would say.
She would know indeed. It felt like something was pulling her away from where she stood. It was painful as well like her soul was being crushed and ripped apart by an unseen force, then suddenly it would stop but she wasn't where she last stood before the open sea.
Now she stood before a fortress of fire and ice and hard, grey stone. She knew where she was. She was in the realm of Melkor, the Rebellious One and his dark servants. How could she not know? He was always up to something.
And she know why she was here, the first of Eru's Children was going to die.
She felt the pull again, less painful than before. She closed her dark eyes.
When the pain stopped she slowly opened her eye and found herself before the Child, whose end was close.
It was a terrible sight.
The room was circular, with no openings for fresh air and the only light was the flames that heated instruments of torture, spikes, hammers, and knives, and in the center of the room the Child hung from a cast iron chains bound to his feet from the top of the ceiling, naked. His body was marred with gashes, burns and puncher wounds. His skin was the color of ash.
She circled the Child of Eru, until she stood in front of him. She turned her face away. The Child's face was distorted in to a hideous creature. His eyes, unnaturally yellow and red bulged from the sockets, he had no eyelids. They were cut away. His lips… there were no lips and his teeth were black and rotted. The nose could hardly be called a nose, only a bloody lump in the middle of his face. She could only shudder. It was a horrible sight and the stench was unbearable.
She knew what to do. Mercy was all that she could give this poor Child, and mercy he will have.
She reached out her pale hand and gently grabbed the Child's wrist. She turned to face west and willed herself to the Halls of Namo where the dead will wait to live again.
And there she left him, in Namo's care.
What was the child's name?
She will never know.