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Title: Call on the Wind (#2106)
Author: Marta
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: Eomer hears Boromir's last horn-call. A double-drabble for Nessime's birthday.
Published: 29 Jul 2005
Updated: 29 Jul 2005
Warnings: 
Type: Drama
Characters: Eomer; Boromir; Theodred


Chapter 1 - Call on the Wind

The horn’s blast split the crisp dusk air, like a dwarf’s axe cleaving a first-year sapling.

He remembered that sound. Always before setting forth Boromir of Gondor sounded his horn, if his rider’s gossip could be trusted. Eomer thought that vain and proud, but brave -- all of which fitted the marshal’s impression of the Captain-General from the short time they had spent together last summer.

The horse had returned riderless, and his cousin throught Boromir dead. A new enemy stirred near Isengard. Theodred was often called to lead his men in skirmishes there, risking his own life and theirs to defend the Fords of Isen.

But Boromir’s horn sounded from the east. The horse had returned riderless, but the rider had survived -- for a while, at least. Hope, like a flame, flickers in the breeze -- but it it defies the night and the wind does not blow it out. Not yet.
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