fic!

Not a fic of broad appeal, but it's what inspired me! There might be errors, since I wrote it very quickly, but it was fun (in its way).

title: the voices of the sea
verse: Daughters of Númenor; AU where the explicit throwback characters in LOTR (Aragorn, Denethor, Imrahil, and Faramir) are genderbent (as Aranor, Andreth, Imraphel, and Míriel)
characters: Faramir/Míriel; Tar-Míriel, Boromir (in absentia)
stuff that happens: For Míriel, daughter of the Steward of Gondor, the gifts of Númenor can be difficult to receive. AKA a very belated sequel to “cloven shield and broken sword,” in which Aranor found a dying Boromir:

She remembered him tugging at her leggings, demanding to know but what next? And she remembered him in Lothlórien, haughty and suspicious until he began to speak of Míriel, the sister he had loved and protected through all the days of their lives. Boromir the tall, the fair, the bold, had died, and his treasured sister lived on; what was Aranor’s grief to that?

May the news of his loss come to you swiftly and kindly, jewel-maiden!

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The dream always began the same way.

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