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Heaven in the meantime

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Prompt: Rivendell: "Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven." --Tyron Edwards.

Summary: Between death and heaven lies Pelennor and its detritus.

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Dawn over Erui Crossings saw widowed Morien lonely leaving home. Her sons had answered Minas Tirith's muster-call, and since then, she'd gone ghost-grey.

How hateful, the crows circling her field-corner! She took a shovel, went looking...

… and found two haggard youths asleep there – Southron and Dúnadan.

Deserters!

Ai, my boys! Horror showed them abandoned, dying, and outrage raised the shovel – Faithless murderers...!

One whimpered, heedless, dreaming: Nana!

Her insides cramped. Stricken, she stood, tears streaming forth, and could but think: Happy women, to whom they'll call and crawl!

Compassion spasmed – Morien fled without forgiving, but left her daily fare behind.

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Nana! – “Mom!”

In terms of timing, this episode would occur sometime between Pelennor and the announcement that Barad-dûr had fallen, and of course well before all the names of the dead were known or could have been reported to far-flung families. Although there's no need (I hope) to read back-story for the drabble to make sense, in my mind, it's a sequel to Beyond the Pale.

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