"A Different Kind of Flame" and "Fire and Terror" by Himring

Fire and Terror

Curutane died when Thargelion was ravaged in the Battle of Sudden Flame.
Even after her death, she is at first not free of the terror of fire.

Curutane wanders in a haze of scorching heat. Veering right, left, backward, forwards, she cannot get away from the fire in which she died. Flames surround her still. Helplessly, she dodges them, vaguely aware that there is nothing left to burn: she is all burnt. Still, they reach for her hungrily and, still, she retreats, hemmed in and herded by their silent hissing.

Until a sea voice calls and, somehow, she stumbles onto a bit of beach.

A white shell washed up on the wet sand—she stoops—cool it lies in her trembling hand.

Behind her the flames recede.

Chapter End Notes

Written for the July 2021 challenge at tolkienshortfanworks, which had the prompt "sea shell".

Some inspiration taken from the bonus prompt:
"I walked by the sea, and there came to me, / as a star-beam on the wet sand, / a white shell like a sea-bell; / trembling it lay in my wet hand" (From: "The Sea Bell", by Tolkien.)

The couplet I transformed it into is also a nod to the formal challenge for July, which asked for couplets.

100 words according to MS Word.

The title is taken from the canon description of the ruin of Thargelion.

(Originally, these two drabbles were written and posted separately and in reverse order.)