Zenna Vortex: Eryniel Saga

by LA Knight

A child of Rohan, narrowly escaping an orc attack on her village, finds herself at the mercy of Fangorn, and all the creatures that live there. Meanwhile, an attack from the Enemy looms over Rohan and Fangorn, and Gandalf is troubled by dreams. Hiatus.

11. Prt1 Deorwyn of Rohan Day 5 Treebeard

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Treebeard

The child was worse.

She had not stopped shivering since night had fallen, and she coughed even in her sleep, vicious hacking coughing that sounded of winter and death. When she drew breath, he could hear the air trying to break through wetness deep in her lungs, and knew she was gravely ill. She was pale, but her face was flushed, red with fever, and when he carried her from the bed of soft grasses to the table to drink Ent-Draught, holding her cradled in his branches was like holding the summer sunlight, hot, and not pleasantly so. Almost scalding. Her hands shook like leaves in a winter gale when she lifted her bowl of Ent-Draught to her lips. She was slowly fading, like a plucked flower, fading away to nothing but insubstantial heat and shuddering breath. The old Ent did not think he could bear it if she died.

The sound of her labored breathing tore at him. Here was a tiny creature, so young and full of life, a little green shoot of a creature barely out of her first spring, and she was dying and in pain of it, suffering. She tossed and turned, murmuring, "Eothain… Eothain…." She burned in her sleep. She was dying, and Treebeard did not even know the little one's name.

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