Old Tales of the Shire: Wife of the Thain

by LA Knight

It was often said in other families that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, BUT...." - The Hobbit, Chapter One, Page 2. Nominated for MEFA2008.

4. Flight

Chapter Three

Flight

"A dream of silver swans swimming in my mind, lost in isolation..."

- Spiral (Don't Fall), the Cruxshadows

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She hears a yearning moan.

She's frightened into flight.

Flitting across the water, she doesn't look back to see what sighted her, what creature managed to glimpse one of the Hidden People.

A blue shadow against the darkness, stars and moon alight on the fairness of her skin as she glides away, like a pure, white swan touched silver by the night's magic.

Suddenly she turns, catching a glimpse of the upturned face of the Thain, and for a moment, her heart stops in her chest.

Then she's gone. A silver swan swims upon the surface of the lake.

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I don't own LotR or the Hobbit. This is a series of drabbles/droubbles.