Author: Azalais
Title: Out of Doubt, Out of Dark
Characters: Faramir, Aragorn
Source: RoTK
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Middle-earth belongs to Tolkien and his heirs: I wander there for fun, not profit
Out of Doubt, Out of Dark
He is sure there was fire: remembers burning, and acrid smoke. But now he’s sunk in deep, deep water, far down, crushed by weight and darkness.
Did the great wave come at last? And then: Am I dead?...
Somewhere far off, dimly, there’s light - and a voice, faint at first; suddenly he wants, above all, to reach them. The current pulls him away - he struggles, swimming against the tide -
It calls his name, this voice never before heard yet somehow always known. At last, he opens his eyes.
“My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?”
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(Faramir's first words to Aragorn are a direct lift from the text of RoTK)