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Title: Hands (#2724)
Author: SilverMoonLady
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: Just what does one keep against the passage of time? For Cuthalion, and drawn from her lovely "Before I Go To Sleep".
Published: 15 May 2006
Updated: 15 May 2006
Warnings:
Type: Romance
Characters: Frodo; OFC


Chapter 1 - Hands

Disclaimer: Mr. Baggins belongs to Prof. Tolkien; Lily to Cuthalion; both are kind enough to let me play:)



Hands


Love leaves its traces, in dreams, in places, in half-seen shadows and the long memory of the senses.

Though she, the healer, has held so many hands - pleading, grateful, anguished - there are but two that will forever leave their mark. Even now, with his touch but a promise through bodice, shawl and shift, Lily can imagine the paths they will blaze this night across her skin. She knows, with heart-deep certainty, that even should time take its toll of memory, still those long fingered hands will stroke and stoke this fire, this bliss that can shake the stars.
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