Title: Sparks Fly
Fandom: Silmarillion, Hobbit
Challenge: Shelter
Bingo prompt: Sleepless
Rating: G
Length: 60 words, 14 lines
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Morgynleri for encouragement & sanity-checking. Inspired by the opening scene in Bunn’s Return to Aman story “I Will Not Say the Day Is Done”.
Summary: Fire makes sparks

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Sparks fly upward, small gold stars
Fleeting, floating, faint and far
Fire-children, from hearth and forge
Campfire, watchfire, hill and gorge
Sleepless malice, weary child
Firefly or lightning wild
Beacon-bright or smoulder-dim
Battle line or taper slim
Sheltered cave or strand forsaken
Single coal or conflagration
Fire-foe and fire-friend
Sparks fly freely at the end

Aulë, Varda, Manwë high
Witness as our sparks they fly

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