Soronūmė turned as Elwen caught his wrist, she was questionning him. She asked what he could not answer, "You have not upset me star maiden" he replied, brushing the tears from her cheeks, "no one so fair could ever do such a thing."
The wind caught Elwen's hair taking it from her fingers, high up into the air. She pulled it down and raised her hood over her head, she was still weeping. "You ask me questions I cannot answer Elwen. I would tell you the answers if I knew how. I run from the same thing that I have run from the past months, and that is all I can say." Soronūmė tried to keep Elwen's gaze but both were distracted by a disturbance in the nearby woods. "I would have stayed Elwen so that you were not alone. I must leave, but you are strong. You have yet to find the master you hold so dear and cannot stay in the inn much longer yourself."
Soronūmė called for his horse and Salixrana came, mounting the steed Soronūmė whispered "Farewell star maiden, we will meet again and on that day, your light will shine with all the stars of the sky." He smiled, "Namarie Elwen" and rode off at speed.
[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]
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