Rain Washes Off All the Other Colors by Tethys Resort

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Fanwork Information

Summary:

“He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.  He is surer to find his home in a blind night than the cats of Berúthiel.”  Aragorn, Moria.

The story of a woman and her cats. 

Major Characters: Berúthiel

Major Relationships:

Genre: Drama

Challenges: Queens of the Quill

Rating: Adult

Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn

Chapters: 3 Word Count: 7, 108
Posted on 7 May 2021 Updated on 9 May 2021

This fanwork is complete.

Table of Contents

For the Queens of the Quill Challenge

The Music

By Mirabai

My friend, the stain of the Great Dancer has penetrated my body.

I drank the cup of music, and I am hopelessly drunk.

Moreover I stay drunk, no matter what I do to become sober.

Rana, who disapproves, gave me one basket with a snake in it.

Mira folded the snake around her neck, it was a lover's necklace, lovely!

Rana's next gift was poison: 'This is something for you, Mira.'

She repeated the Holy Name in her chest, and drank it, it was good!

Every name He has is praise; that's the cup I like to drink, and only that.

'The Great Dancer is my husband,' Mira says, 'rain washes off all the other colors.'

https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327827-The-Music-by-Mirabai

English version by Robert Bly

 


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That is a really interesting take on Beruthiel!

I liked your look at her back story and her early days in Osgiliath, with the inevitable culture clash and also some foreshadowing of the future.

I will be interested to see how this continues!