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Title: The Will (#2479)
Author: LydiaB
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Alternate Universe (AU)
Description: Written for Drabble Challenge #42: Heirs. In a place far far away from middle earth...
Published: 04 Jan 2006
Updated: 04 Jan 2006
Warnings:
Type: General
Characters:


Chapter 1 - The Will

The lawyer’s office was of the standard type: musty law reports; mahogany surfaces; a whiff of furniture polish.

They waited. Some perched forward hopefully; others were contained, unwilling to display eagerness. The young man lit his pipe indifferently. He didn’t expect much.

Grand houses went to prodigal sons; a valuable timepiece, to a valued servant. Finally! “To my dear friend and archaic-language enthusiast . . .”

A manuscript was passed over, bound in red leather. Inside, on leaves snapping with age, were faded letters, confounding but enticing.

He sighed. He’d just enlisted. Its secrets would be unraveled in the trenches . . . or, perhaps, never.
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