Advent Calendar 2009 - 11: The Hermit
Dec. 11th, 2009 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aearwenMoving right along...
Of all of the things in his life, only the sea never changed.
He'd seen empires rise and fall, cities built only to fall into ruin. And the lives of those around him, so mortal and ephemeral, had become a blur.
But the sea never stopped washing the beaches, never stopped showing him a new mood or color from one day to the next. Never stopped being the one impenetrable barrier between himself and all he loved.
Maglor seated himself on a rock and drew out his harp to sing a sad greeting to the newest morning of his exile.
Of all of the things in his life, only the sea never changed.
He'd seen empires rise and fall, cities built only to fall into ruin. And the lives of those around him, so mortal and ephemeral, had become a blur.
But the sea never stopped washing the beaches, never stopped showing him a new mood or color from one day to the next. Never stopped being the one impenetrable barrier between himself and all he loved.
Maglor seated himself on a rock and drew out his harp to sing a sad greeting to the newest morning of his exile.
