Fermata, by Himring (non-challenge)

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Title : Fermata
Author : Himring
Fandom : Silmarillion
Rating : PG
Characters : Celegorm
Disclaimer : Celegorm is Tolkien's character, but this scene is Himring's
Spoilers : allusions to First Kinslaying and Celegorm's history in Nargothrond
Summary: After the expulsion from Nargothrond, Celegorm and Curufin pause for a rest on their travels.

Celegorm sets down the bow and quiver he was carrying and dips his hand into the glittering water where the gush of the waterfall has washed a bowl into the rock. Quivering in the sunlight, the spray of falling water flashes colours, fragments of rainbows above lusciously growing ferns. It is summer.

For a moment, he kneels mindless, forgets that he is without home or abode, exiled not once but twice, not only from Valinor for his oath and ill-bought voyage, but also from among his relations for far-rumoured betrayal. His knees sink into the moss.

Then Curufin calls him.


A/N: Written during an insta-drabbling session on the SWG Discord for Celegorm day of Feanorian week.