Bits and Pieces Under 300 Words by sallysavestheday

Take My Love, Take It Down

For the January 8, 2023 instadrabble prompt of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide: Celeborn races to board the Last Ship.

Celeborn chivvies his horse along the road with an urgency he had never expected to feel. His sudden reversal means that he has very little time: the Last Ship had planned to sail without him and the tide is rising. They will not know to wait. He can feel the strain in his mount’s haunches; her breath comes as fast as his own, chasing the scent of the water, the light on the waves. Never Valinor, he had said, and meant it, but he longs too much; the ache of their separation has worn him down. He shifts his weight forward and urges the pale mare on, his mind already full of the arrival, of the welcoming fire in Galadriel’s eyes.