New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
Originally written in June 2007 for my friend Vlad.
With my brothers, allies, and desires gone, I embrace the scorching heart of Arda and hold it close to my own, for within its ever-blazing core I seek hope and deliverance. I let it burn away my remorse and the bitter remembrance of my grave and unpardonable deeds. As my exhausted, forever-marred body turns to ashes, I feel the power that rekindles my spirit and raises it to a sublime state of purification and forgiveness.
Have no fear, stranger passing by. Dry your eyes. The hissing flames cannot harm me. Nothing is more elemental to the son of a self-consumed fire.