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Drabble
This is from Gentlehobbit's first lines meme.
When a piece of wood splits apart in the fire, it first crackles and embers flare along the edges. Just a few moments of dazzling sparks, followed by the sullen hissing of the flames.
Corpses of trees, Pippin thought absently, watching in growing horror as the pyre Denethor had erected was slowly consumed in the flames.
The sickly sweet scent of oil was soon joined by that of burning flesh, and for a moment, the flames seemed to laugh in glee as they began to crawl over the Steward's legs.
When a piece of wood splits apart in the fire, it first crackles and embers flare along the edges. Yet when a mind begins to split and sunder, there is no such warning.
When a piece of wood splits apart in the fire, it first crackles and embers flare along the edges. Just a few moments of dazzling sparks, followed by the sullen hissing of the flames.
Corpses of trees, Pippin thought absently, watching in growing horror as the pyre Denethor had erected was slowly consumed in the flames.
The sickly sweet scent of oil was soon joined by that of burning flesh, and for a moment, the flames seemed to laugh in glee as they began to crawl over the Steward's legs.
When a piece of wood splits apart in the fire, it first crackles and embers flare along the edges. Yet when a mind begins to split and sunder, there is no such warning.