Title: Relief
Challenge: Ailments - Cold
Characters: Gimli, Aragorn
Source: LotR, movie-verse (TTT)
Disclaimer: Middle-Earth belongs to Tolkien, I'm just playing a bit with it for fun.
Note: I'm imagining this happening sometime after they left Lothlórien.
Many thanks to Shadowycat for looking this over!
Snarling, Gimli freed himself from the hands of the Gondorian and the elf, made his unsteady way to the shore, and dunked his head in the soothing cold of the river. Aulë, this had hurt! But the toothache was gone, together with the tooth, and he felt giddy with relief.
But to have suffered the shame of having needed two men to hold him down while Aragorn went about his business - worse, even, a man and an elf! - was more than his dwarven honour could bear.
Back at the fire, seven flasks of spirits were offered to him.
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