Flags

This story was inspired by this incongrous line from the entry for “Gladden Fields” in Robert Foster’s 'The Complete Guide to Middle Earth:'

“Many irises grew in the Gladden Fields.”

If I ever knew this I’d forgot it, but remembered instead that the more ‘common’ name for Iris is ‘Flag’.

Where I live, they are in bloom as I write this; a peacenik vignette.


PS: The A/N has more words than the piece!
PPS: since writing this I have learned a drabble must be exactly 100 words; this is 60, so I've taken out every instance of that term. Oh, well.