To See Our Enemy Coming by Himring

Survivor

This drabble precedes the first chapter both in-universe and in order of writing:

Summary:

Angrod's wife Edhellos will survive the fall of Dorthonion, even though Angrod and Aegnor are about to die in the Battle of Sudden Flame.
Angrod intended her to.

Edhellos was not foresighted, unlike her husband. It was not until she reached the top of the ridge and felt the tremendous blast of heat mixed with smoke and black malice strike her from the right that she understood that he had not sent her riding pell-mell westwards to get help.

‘I’ll get you for this, Angrod,’ she hissed, remembering, too late, the expression on his face.

Which might be a difficult promise to keep. Would she see him again before the End of Days?

She did not turn or slow the horse. She would save whoever she still could.

Chapter End Notes

Written in 2019 for Day Three (Angrod and Aegnor) of Arafinwean Week on Tumblr, using the following prompts from Tolkien100 and Tolkien Weekly:
The End of Days; When the Black Wind Blows; Travelling on Horseback.

This is set in the same continuity as Neighbourly Relations, where Angrod's decision to send Edhellos for help, even though no help can come in time to save him, is described  from Aegnor's point of view.