Many Journeys by Elleth

The Song (Forever)

Written for Tolkien Femslash Week 2016, for the prompts:

Story Elements: A flute
Tolkien Quotes: "And Indis hath my love", "May I not now spend my life as I will?"
Book Title: Girl Walking Backwards
Emotions: Hope
Formats/Genres: True Drabble
Lyrics and Poetry: “Let me find you and the song (forever) between us”

Set in the "The Beautiful Ones" 'verse, although a long time after that story takes place. (And yes, I fully intend to pick it up again to finish, although I don't want to make estimates on when that'll be.)

The sounds of a birdbone flute called Indis out of her hut, to stars above the mere, and mountains dark against the sky. The moon had not yet risen. The music shivered through the marrow of her bones with ancient force.

A solitary figure sat on a boulder by the shore. Indis, and time itself, were walking backwards, into her girlhood and freedom to spend her life as she would. “Kalrê,” she called, slipping into the tongue of her youth the scholars now termed ‘primitive’, and threaded her fingers through her lover’s golden hair, kissing it. “Do not stop playing.”