Title: Hîth egor Osp? Osp be Hîth
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Hungry
Bingo prompt: Feed
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: Dagor Bragollach
Author notes: Thanks go to Morgynleri for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Title is intended to mean 'Fog or Smoke, Smoke like Mist'
Photo is not mine.
Summary: Fog or flame?

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Fog like smoke huddled close to the ground, a sullen, orange thickness at the bases of trees and in the furrows of the fields, the low light making it burn as if with cold fire. Above the bare tree branches scribbled unreadable black calligraphy against the eerily green sky. Storm weather, some would have called it, but the heavy air was still and silent, no breath of wind stirred the bent grasses, the ground-clinging mist.

Another sunrise: smoke like fog, smothering, orange, hiding fire fed on fear, consuming all — grass and tree, horse and rider, in sudden, inexorable, ravenous flame.

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