Fic: No Better Name

[cairistiona]

Whee, it's finally finished! The second in what's now the Rushlight Trilogy, No Better Name will now be posted a chapter twice a week at SoA and NaN and hopefully ff.net, though my internet connection skipped out on me RIGHT as I hit "publish". *headdesk*   Since ff.net can be slow about showing your post, I'll have to wait a little bit to make sure it didn't actually publish before I try again--I don't know if it'd let me publish something twice but best not to look foolish if it does.   I find it far too easy as it is to look foolish online without flirting with yet another opportunity.  Case in point:  I discovered, when I was setting up the Rushlight Trilogy series at NaN that I had never posted By Such A Foolish Name there.  Duh.  That oversight has been rectified, which means today I actually posted two stories over there, which looks incredibly spammish but I promise never to do that again.  Until my next fit of absentmindedness, that is, which is sadly not outside the realm of possibility.  Me and the technical aspects of posting... meh.  We don't get along.  Oh for an assistant to do all that for me! LOL  ETA:  it's now up at ff.net as well.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the further adventures of Bowen as this time he encounters not only Strider but Halbarad and the rest of my merry band of Aragorn's close companions.  Here's the nitty gritty about the story, aka the summary:

No Better Name
The second in the Rushlight Trilogy, which began unexpectedly with the
Teitho story, “By Such a Foolish Name”. Bowen Rushlight brings home a
Ranger in need and finds his ideas about Rangers tossed to the winds.
Rated for references to the harsher aspects of Denlad's childhood, but
nothing at all graphic.

A/N: 

Middle-earth and its denizens belong to Professor Tolkien... I

only take them out to play with for a while before I put them back where

they belong.

Many thanks to my betas, Inzilbeth and Estelcontar.

Reading "By Such a Foolish Name" is recommended, as this story takes up where it left off.

A slight word about the rating--this is not a graphic story
by any means, but at the same time, if you've read any of my stories
that include Denlad, you'll know he had a very painful and harsh
childhood.  There are references to that here, but the focus is not on
the gritty details but on the hope that a man can overcome such things,
even when the memories may occasionally crop up and cause distress.

Now shoo, people... go read the story. *g*