Conversation in the Dark by Arwen75

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Author: Arwen75
Title: Conversation in the Dark
Rating: PG
Theme: Bunny hutch
Elements: Gollum's conversation with Shelob from harrowcatliz
Summary: Gollum goes to see Shelob
Authors notes: not brilliant at writing conversations and also late with this. Written while invigilating 3 people taking an exam! 
Word count: 301

"They are asleep so we can go my precious. To see Her." So he said to himself as he watched the nasty hobbit finally succumb to sleep.

So he made his way up the stairs further to the dark passageway of Cirith Ungol. Not that he knew the name or even cared. He just knew it as the way he had escaped the Black Land some years earlier. And the place he had met Her. 

She was another creature of the dark who had lived for many years in the passageway leading to what had been the watch-tower of the Faithful above Minas Ithil in the close of the close of the Second Age. Now orcs inhabited it and She hunted them when She was hungry - and what the Dark Lord sent Her. Now he was bringing her sweeter meat and so he would regain his Precious.

He slinked into the dark and found his way to Her lair where she waited. 

In his mind came the words *You return my messenger. What do you bring?*

"Sweet meat I bring you .. Yes I do my Precious. Better than orcsies it is." She only wanted the fresh meat not what it bore.

*When?*

"Soon, Precious ... Very soon. Climbing the stairs we are .... Resting they are. String webs across the passageway. Escape they shall not. We shall make sure of that .... Yes we shall my Precious."

*My thanks. Long have I desired meat that is not orc-flesh. Now you bring it as you promised me when I let you live.*

"Return we must before we are missed. Back soon we shall be, Precious...and then Precious shall be ours again."

With that he slinked out the lair and headed back to where the hobbits were sleeping. Soon he promised....soon.

Comments

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Somehow I'd missed the first part, but this is really enjoyable - I love your Eucatastrophe AU quite a lot. :D