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Title: The Waker (#3521)
Author: NancyBrooke
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: What can something without language think?  What sounds does it make?  And what wakes it in the deep?
Response to OSA Drabble Challenge #81: Onomatopoeia
Published: 20 Jul 2007
Updated: 20 Jul 2007
Warnings: 
Type: Angst
Characters: The Watcher in the Water


Chapter 1 - The Waker

Plop!

It wakes, but cannot say why.  It has no words, not even “I”.  But it knows  … something.

Plunk!

Something new.  In the cold dark, it cannot even think “dry”, ‘rock”, “earth” - it has never known these things.

It knows only hunger.

With a flick and a slish it stretches out, seeking.

It is there, where the water thins and burns its eyes:  an intoxicating, almost forgotten taste of prey, and with it … something else – a calling, a plea, and, almost … a name.

It has never had a name; it has never known it wanted one, so very badly.
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