I now have a grudge against science, thanks to today's horribly boring and pointless lesson about the periodic table. It was pure torture!
Chapter 2
Oh my brother,
Locked away,
Without any hope for escape,
Our shared father,
Does not come,
To whisk you away,
Oh why oh why,
Does he abandon the dusk?
To the cold impassive walls of those he should trust,
Ai but it is ever the sons who pay for the sins of the father.
The soul shivered as a breath of foreboding wracked his grey world. Maybe the body was coming to find him; maybe he had grown tired of waiting? He thought. But no, this did not feel like something the body would do, no this was something else…something bigger and maybe, just maybe, something worse. But what could be worse then the body that locked him in?
The soul forced himself to let go of such thoughts and instead focused on getting to the wall. He had to get out, Doron needed him.
Faceless spectres reached out to stop him, gaping mouths opened to suck him into…
No! The soul shrieked, be gone! I am no longer yours!
But it did him no good and he was sucked into the void of memories…
I watched in horror as frost began to creep towards me from the door, tinging the walls a dull white. I scrambled further into my corner, pressing myself against the wall as if I could melt through it and escape. I couldn't of course, no matter how hard I wanted to.
The ice reached me, latching onto my barefoot and make me gasp with the intensity of it. It. Was. So. Cold.
I screamed, begging it to stop…to go back.
Anything but this.
But it crept upwards, unheeding of my frantic attempts to dislodge it. I rubbed my hand against it, hoping to scrape it off my skin. But it just leached onto my hand, racing up my arm and turning my blood to ice. The frost burned everything that it touched, and I sobbed from both the agony and fear. It reached my neck and I choked when my breath was abruptly cut off, it continued upwards and entered my mouth…
I jerked and trembled…before stilling as the merciful blackness swallowed me…
"I love you"
The soul gasped and shook himself free, now was not the time to indulge in memories of what the necromancer had done to him. The soul shook himself like a dog ridding himself of water before squaring his shoulders and marching grimly onwards.
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"But my lord-"
"Not now Fenlass".
"But-"
"Im busy Fenlas".
"Doron! You will cease this madness now!"
Doron dumped the last of his provisions into the saddle bag, ignoring the irate cook as said cook attempted to remove the food stuff from his possession.
Doron sighed. "I have to get Legolas away from here, don't you understand? He will never heal in the caves with Adar so near yet so far".
Fenlass shook his head. "Ah foolish elfling", he rebuked softly, "The love you hold for your brother is remarkable, and I am not trying to stop you from taking the little one away from the caves. But stop and think, clear your anger from your mind, do you really think Thranduil will just let you go? And assuming he does, where will you go?"
"I will create a talan in the settlements…we will get by".
"Do you think those in the settlements will harbour the King's runaway sons?"
Fenlass took Doron's silence as consent to continue. "Wait until Legolas awakens before setting out, I sense the wait will not be long and I shall talk to the healers and gain their cooperation to delay telling the King that his son has awakened. And then we shall sneak you and your brother out of the caves".
"Where will we go?" Doron asked as he began unpacking.
"To the old talan my brother and I used to live in before he died": came the reply.
The older elf grimaced sympathetically as he noticed Doron's reluctance. "All you need is patience, my lord…patience".
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The soul screamed in fury as the body rebounded his attempts to break through the walls.
You must stay…it gasped.
No…the soul whimpered as he felt the weight of his memories begin to crush him.
Stay…be safe…no one can hurt you here.
You're hurting me, snarled the soul as it dragged one foot forward. Valar! It felt like he was wading through a quagmire.
For your own good…
The soul reached out and placed his fingers on the wall, feeling the potent energy vibrating beneath the placid looking substance.
"I love you".
BEGONE, shouted the soul, THOU SHALT NOT KEEP ME ANYMORE.
And it shattered, sucking the soul into the black hole on the otherside…
TBC
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