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Title: Running (#1769)
Author: NancyBrooke
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: War makes men of children, and vice versa.
Answer to Weekly OSA Challenge #4 - Good Guys
Published: 06 Apr 2005
Updated: 06 Apr 2005
Warnings: 
Type: General
Characters: Bergil


Chapter 1 - Running

“Run!”

He ran, leaping over rubble – eyes closed to the blood, ears to the weeping – running.  Then duck, bend, twist into the fallen door, skitter through glass and debris.  He would find it; had to find it – sift through powders and pools.  They had sent him, a man now; he would find it – a crumpled pouch! – grasp and run.

Shoving at bodies he gained the room: “It is Athelas, sir …”  So proud, so grown!  A hand clapped his shoulder – the Perian – then the tears caught up.

Bergil bowed against the littler form, aching, all at once, to be small.





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