Advent Calendar 2009 - 24: Judgment
Dec. 27th, 2009 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've caught up! Yay!! So without further ado...
It didn't matter that she was acclaimed, renowned, or that she had done what no man could have. Only this mattered to her now.
She had abandoned her people that her uncle had placed in her care, left them to ride to what she had thought would be ruin and death, certain she wouldn't survive the struggle.
Now, her uncle was dead. Her brother had become King of the Mark. The Dark Lord had been overthrown. Aragorn lived, and would now wed his Elven bride.
Éowyn leaned her head into Faramir's shoulder. Maybe survival wouldn't be so bad after all.
It didn't matter that she was acclaimed, renowned, or that she had done what no man could have. Only this mattered to her now.
She had abandoned her people that her uncle had placed in her care, left them to ride to what she had thought would be ruin and death, certain she wouldn't survive the struggle.
Now, her uncle was dead. Her brother had become King of the Mark. The Dark Lord had been overthrown. Aragorn lived, and would now wed his Elven bride.
Éowyn leaned her head into Faramir's shoulder. Maybe survival wouldn't be so bad after all.