Many Journeys by Elleth

Tragedy

Also for Moetushie's one-sentence fic meme, and the prompt: "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." Mentions character death.

Findekáno's tragedy writes itself - that's the joke that has followed him from a rambunctious childhood on, when tragedies were still unreal and thus a laughing matter - but when it strikes at last, he is just one body on the Hill of the Slain, some organic matter that will nourish grass come spring, and the tragedy, the real tragedy, resides with one survivor in particular who bears its whole weight in a single hand.

Chapter End Notes

Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald.