Six Days of Spooky: Day 2

[illwynd]

Hollow Spears
By illwynd
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing!
Rating: PG
Summary: In the Dead Marshes, time wears away...
Notes: Another drabble for the Six Days of Spooky!
x-posted to tolkien100

The wet reeds point skyward, pale and water-washed spears of fallen forms that lie now beneath the murk. An oily film on the water makes a mirror for the grey above, and no sun shall bleach their bones. Instead time wears away, and nightly flames burn.

No one watched the creeping marsh swallowing dry graves. Opponents lie here side by side, while twisted forms of water-weeds cast ghastly shadows across their empty eyes. The sad wind still echoes their falling cries.

Look out across the bare marshland. Insects flit above the hollow spears, as if the battle were only yesterday.