- Drabbletag 7: The Silmarillion (OFC/Tar Miriel)
Title: Memento
Prompt: hope
Fandom: Silmarillion
Pairing: OFC/Tar-Miriel
Rating: PG-13
Word count: c.130 words
Summary: The queen outmanoeuvered by her enemy.
Warnings: character death accompanied by canon-typical violence (triggery content)
Tar-Miriel stood calm and impassive. She had trained herself some time ago not to flinch at the screams and the smell of burning flesh--for all the good it did her.
She met the Zigur's gaze, for a moment. Then she looked away and straight at the pyre, willing her eyes not to focus.
Oh yes, you've got me well and truly trapped, she thought. I cannot hope to trust anybody around me again--now you've demonstrated so effectively that I can't protect even those closest to me...
As she turned away, she became aware again, with a sharp pang, of the feel of embroidered silk against her skin. She had tied the scarf she had been given around her middle, underneath all her finery, like a sash.
A/N: I've also used this scene as an inset piece in a longer ficlet I was simultaneously writing for a challenge at the Library of Moria. My apologies to the prompter for turning the prompt on its head! In the longer ficlet, one character, at least, survives...