All Shall Fade by Narya

Chapter 1

Stale air blew through the Elf-king's halls. It tasted of sulphur and stone and gold. Mîm clung to the shadows, wary, alert - yet each passage was silent, every cavern an empty black yawn. Glee sharp as poison surged through him. Where now was Finrod, the valiant and wise? Where the bright-armoured warriors and sweet-voiced maids? Dead, he thought, and he chuckled. 

The echo scuttled around the cave. Dead like your sons. Dead like the beautiful boy you betrayed.

He moaned. 

I am the last. I will die, and we will fade from history and song.

Alone in the dark, Mîm knelt and wept.

Chapter End Notes

Written for B2MeM 2018, prompt no. 7 from the initial prompt list:

"But the songs wither, and the world worsens." ("The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorthelm's Son")