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Part 1 of the distant strains of triumph , Part 1 of Set in Tolkien-world
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2020-06-03
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2023-06-07
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186,151
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47/47
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to die, to sleep; (-to sleep: perchance to dream)

Summary:

It’s not the pain he minds, in the end, nor the flames. He’s an Uchiha, fire is his lifeblood. No, it’s the waking up. That, he minds.

Notes:

Aanother Itachi story? Yeah, sure seems so. This one has Itachi in it, like, not just as an inanimate plot device, so that's a thing.

Romance-wise, I like Itachi/Thorin in theory. That said, amorous feelings haven't manifested thus far, and they don't seem to want to. I'd say this story is all found family and healing and repentance. Yeah.

The first arc is heavy on the worldbuilding. Basically a Robinson Crusoe story but written by someone who knows nothing about survival. It shows, I think. :D

A/N 22.07.21. Editing the messy shit, just FYI. You don't gotta read it, if you've read it already, it should be more or less the same but with fewer commas and more jokes. Love you all, take care, remember sunscreen and stay hydrated <3

A/N 10.10.22 Now with Art!! Made by wonderful dzheirafaer! It's fantastic, seriously!

Chapter 1: Introduction

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
BY EMILY DICKINSON

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –

This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –

Notes:

For new readers: Posting some grammar and style-based corrections. Plot remains unchanged.

Chapter Text

 

 

Itachi dies in the war and goes to a place of healing and repentance.

 

It’s not nice, it’s not peaceful. It is fire and brimstone, and not-Hell but not-Heaven, either. Every choice he’d made, all the consequences, intended or otherwise, are slammed into him. ‘Time of reckoning is at hand’, the void says. ‘Look at what you’ve done. Understand it, if you can.’

 

For someone less mad and clever, it would have been agony. For Itachi, a tragedy of an Uchiha that kept harming Sasuke over and over and over again, convinced in his madness that he was helping—

 

After the agony of his life, this is nothing. This is justice. The only person suffering is precisely the one that deserves it. Who would dare complain?

 

He floats and—

 

Healing isn’t the right word. Insight and Judgment fall on him like hammers, pain melts him down into something malleable, and so in the forges of death, he is made anew.

 

It’s not the pain he minds, in the end, nor the flames. He’s an Uchiha, fire is his lifeblood. No, it’s the waking up. That, he minds.