All Hues and Honeys by Dawn Felagund

Memorial

Nerdanel ponders how to memorialize the kinslaying. A perfect drabble for IFD/Meet & Greet instadrabbling. The prompts were "lost in memory" and "group, follow, conceptualize, button."

Memorial

Nerdanel woke as the sun painted the beach in rose/fleshtone/like the inside of an exsanguinated wound.

Once, the beach was populated with groups of Teleri, children following the sea as the waves stranded jewel-bright shells, mothers mending nets upon patchwork blankets, fathers ladling up fish chowder cooked over open fires on the beach.

Now the sea chewed at an empty beach—her husband's doing.

Nerdanel's trembling fingers missed a button on her work shirt.

How to conceptualize what had been? Wives, sons, fathers whose footprints would mark the sands of Alqualondë no more. How to remember what was lost