The Road Goes Ever On and On

by Surreysmum

Complete! Gentle Legolas Aragorn slash, set about 50 years before the ringwar. Legolas and Aragorn journey together; the tale of their adventures is told in 50 linked drabbles or quasi-drabbles suggested by 50 prompt words.

21. Prompt 21: fire

Prompt 21: Fire

The dread word had barely passed Legolas' lips when they found themselves surrounded on all sides by leaping flames, much too quickly for the blaze to have been caused by any means but magic.

"This way!" cried the Ranger, alighting and seizing the bridles of the terrified horses. Amye howled as they pushed swiftly through a thin but searing wall of flame, mercifully finding beyond it a little stream whose presence Aragorn had unconsciously noted as they travelled.

Legolas took charge of the horses, calming them with soft Elven speech and taking them to the very centre of the stream, though it was barely knee-deep. Aragorn gathered Mairgret and Amye to him, trying to shield them from the suffocating heat and flying sparks.

It seemed hopeless.

tbc