Title: Hope in the twilight-hour

Author Name: Mal

Contact E-mail: malinorne2003@yahoo.se

Beta Name: Erfan Starled

Main Character(s): Strider

Rating: PG to R, depending on how dirty your imagination is

Genre(s): Adventure, romance, Het

Word Count: 100

Summary: Strider, weathering a blizzard in the wilderness, harbours black thoughts.

Original Request (characters, words and places mentioned in the request and used in this drabble): Strider, Aragorn & Arwen, blizzard, black, travelling, Rivendell

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What was he doing, travelling on his own with this cursed sword when he had a home in Rivendell?! Strider’s grim expression suddenly softened. Narsil was his pledge for another life. Kingship he would not yearn for, had it not been intimately bound to his heart’s truest desire, Lady Arwen. Thoughts of her was what sustained him, precious memories of their evening on Cerin Amroth, walking barefoot in the grass he would have tumbled with her in, had she been anyone but Lord Elrond’s daughter. His battle-calloused fingertips recalled the softness of her skin as he tenderly stroked his sword.