LOTR Drabble: For Want of News
Jul. 14th, 2007 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
martasficTitle: For Want of News
Summary: Fatty Bolger recovers from the Black Breath at Brandy Hall. A drabble.
Word Count: 100 + Notes
Rating: General (nothing objectionable)
Timeline: Late Third Age (bookverse)
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Daffodil placed one strong arm behind Fatty's back, raising his chest. With her free hand she held a mug of coneflower tea to the feverish hobbit's lips. His head rolled to the side, and she sighed heavily.
"You let them go, Fredegar Bolger." She let him sink back into the pillows. She walked toward the door, thinking to get help, but then turned to face the bed.
"You hear me good, Fredegar - Black Riders or no, you best wake up. You're a Brandybuck, too, so you know can. You just wake up, tell us where our Merry got off to, and quick."
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For the interested: Echinacea can in fact lower temperatures. (Coneflower is an alternate name for it, provided by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
forodwaith) It's also a New World plant, which should probably make it unavailable, but if Tolkien can have Bilbo have coffee on hand in the Shire I think I can get away with it. ;-)
Summary: Fatty Bolger recovers from the Black Breath at Brandy Hall. A drabble.
Word Count: 100 + Notes
Rating: General (nothing objectionable)
Timeline: Late Third Age (bookverse)
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Daffodil placed one strong arm behind Fatty's back, raising his chest. With her free hand she held a mug of coneflower tea to the feverish hobbit's lips. His head rolled to the side, and she sighed heavily.
"You let them go, Fredegar Bolger." She let him sink back into the pillows. She walked toward the door, thinking to get help, but then turned to face the bed.
"You hear me good, Fredegar - Black Riders or no, you best wake up. You're a Brandybuck, too, so you know can. You just wake up, tell us where our Merry got off to, and quick."
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For the interested: Echinacea can in fact lower temperatures. (Coneflower is an alternate name for it, provided by
forodwaith) It's also a New World plant, which should probably make it unavailable, but if Tolkien can have Bilbo have coffee on hand in the Shire I think I can get away with it. ;-)