My Slashy Swaps 2020

Title: Heart of the Wood
Author: Kenaz
Email: Kenazfiction@gmail.com
Beta: Ignoblebard. Remaining mistakes are my own.
Rating: R
Pairing: Beleg/Túrin
Warnings: None.
Request: Something bittersweet. Try to include horses, swift-flowing water and birdsong.

Written for Keiliss for the 2007 Slashy Santa Fiction Exchange

Summary: " ...And Beleg and Túrin were companions in every peril, and walked far and wide in the wild woods together." Six vignettes of Beleg and Túrin, on the marches of Doriath and beyond.

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The are calling, calling, Away, come away!
    And we know not whence they call;
For the song is in our hearts, we hear it night and day,
    As the deep tides rise and fall:
O, Death will never find us in the heart of the wood
    While the hours and the years ride by!
We have heard it, we have heard it, but we have
    not understood
We must wander on together, you and I.

-Alfred Noyes, In the Heart of the Woods



All shall be well,
But not for me
But not for me.

- Current 93, In the Heart of the Wood and What I found There


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