"Fainu do you remember when we first met. It seems like only yesterday that we were riding through Rivendell. Oh how I miss those days. Back then we had no cares in the world. We were young and to us forever seemed so far away."
Fáinu was not sure what to say. So much had happened, he was forever changed, in face and mind. Rivendel he could not return to save once, he had to deliver Cirdan's reply to Elodan's message, then he had nothing planed, but to wander and find he knew not what.
"Indeed, I remember those days. Though now it is but a far memory." He looked sad, and dishevelled; "I fear I will never have such joy again, for the pain of the dragon wound will haunt me for ever. and the curse of Smaug will follow me, even, I fear, to Aman."
His words were heart felt, it was something that had plagued his sleep for a long while. He had thought his old life was gone, all accounts of Manstarmin were gone, to the rest of Middle Earth, he was dead.
Still he thought that this meeting with Cree was strange in many ways, not least that she knew him as Fáinu, rather than Manstarmin. All seemed odd to him, it seemed that his life had turned around the minuet he entered the Green Dragon...
"I do not think I shall ever be able to sleep," he said as he looked out of the window, "not while there are dragons in the world." he said this last part quietly, only Adu heard him, she did not understand what he meant, she had not heard tell of Dragons in the world for a long time.
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