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.

26. Prompt 26: save

Prompt 26: Save

Gandalf did not stay with them long, but he spoke long and earnestly with Aragorn and Legolas as mother and child slept by the fire. Then he disappeared again into the night.

Early the next morning, the little party arrived at a neat and modest farmhouse. "Mairgret!" shouted a broad-shouldered young man who had been toiling in the front yard. Mairgret slid nimbly down from the horse and ran to him.

When she was finally released from his bearhug, Mairgret said, "My Lords, this is my cousin Gerritt. Ger, these fine gentlemen saved Amye and me…" And with the words, as though they suddenly made real the whole ordeal, Mairgret, so stoic and courageous through the worst of everything, collapsed suddenly in tears.

tbc