FIREMOON AND MEMORIES
Countless years had passed, but the memories and pain where still there. Sometimes when it seemed
like it would never end. Tauriel would take long walks in the forest to clear her mind. This happened to
be one of those nights. It was Autumn in Mirkwood, and the leaves were beginning to change. Autumn,
it was the time of year when she had met him. Kili, a dwarf that had been taken prisoner. He was so
different than anybody she had ever met, he was so young and adventurous, ready to take on life.
Their conversation had started with a rune stone, a gift from his mother, a promise that he would come
back to her…
She had saved his life in Laketown, and he had saved her life, but in exchange for his. She tried to shake
the memory, Kili dying right in front of her and being completely helpless to do anything.
She broke into a run through the dark forest she knew so well. She stopped at the bottom of a tree and
looked up in search of stars. She couldn't see any through the thick canopy of leaves. Starlight she
thought 'it is memory, precious and pure.' Yet it was memories that had brought her out here tonight.
So she decided to climb a tree in search of the night sky. Within seconds she had reached the top. And
there it was huge, red, and gold it was it filled the sky. Unprepared for the sight before her she gasped,
"a fire moon…." "Oh, Kili" she whispered as silent tears ran down her cheek. "Kili, please come back to
me" she pleaded "please." But she knew it was hopeless he couldn't come, he had gone to the halls of
his fathers.
There she sat crying for who knows how long, she wished to tell him that, yes she could have loved
him. But she knew she couldn't. She wished that this pain would leave but she didn't want to forget, to
forget him, for as long as she remember him in memory he would never truly be gone.