Almost Touching the Stars by Zhie
Summary: When hanging from a cliff, the mind sometimes wanders to places it would rather not. (cheating with using the number instead of spelling it out, but fewer words elsewhere would not do)
Categories: Stories of Arda > Bunniverse (PPB-AU) > First Age Characters: Maedhros
Awards: None
Challenge: B2MEM 2012
Genre: Dramatic
Special Collection: None
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 100 Read: 1941 Published: March 02 2014 Updated: March 02 2014
Story Notes:
B2MeM Challenge:
B7
four words: core, vulture, stratus, maim
B15
hot

1. Complete by Zhie

Complete by Zhie
It was day 736. The only sanity he had left hung by a thread, counting the days. Stripped of his clothes and dignity, the sun beat down upon him here as the stratus dipped lazily around the peaks. All night, he felt able to touch the stars, but in day he suffered from the heat. He imagined he was already roasted to the core, his innards a baked delicacy for the single vulture that returned each day, hoping to find him maimed, so she might feast upon him to the bone.

It was day 736, and he still had hope.
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