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Across Arda's Ages  by Rhyselle

Nov 12: Departure (Second Age 3433, The Grey Havens)


Urhador shifted his daughter in his arms and surveyed the garden around their home. He would miss it sorely, especially the lavender blossoms that nodded by his wife's favorite bench, and he swallowed hard before he told Calathiril, “Say goodbye, little one. We leave tonight.”

At the quay, Cirdan looked askance at the pot filled with lilies tucked in Urhador's right elbow, opposite the sleeping Calathiril in his left.

Urhador explained, “Calathiril wants to take them to her mother,” then boarded the ship. Once they got to Tol Eressëa, they'd tend the flowers and wait for Idhorivor's Rebirth.





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