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Title: Dreadful Dance (#2568)
Author: SilverMoonLady
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: For the Random Phrase drabble challenge - "With dance of dreadful"
Published: 24 Feb 2006
Updated: 24 Feb 2006
Warnings: 
Type: Angst
Characters: Merry


Chapter 1 - Dreadful Dance

Disclaimer:  Tolkien's sandbox, I tiptoe with care.
For drabble challenge 'Random Phrase'.



Dreadful Dance


With the dance of dreadful certainty, the singing blades crashed all around his dazed eyes, and the youth wondered what foolish bravado had brought him here.  Stirring words of King and Captain had called, but weak-kneed before the awful charge, he wondered what purpose he could serve upon this ravaged field -- surely some stronger, more capable warrior could have used this sword, this shield, to better effect.

Then from the shadow, the Black Captain rose with sinister intent, and clarity broke through uncertainty and terror for one bleak moment, Fate’s hidden plan suddenly uncloaked.  

Freed from doubt, Merry acted.
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