Chapter 1: A Mothers Heart
They were after her; she clutched her precious bundle to her breast and she ran. She ran as if all the evil in all the world were fast on her heels. And it was truth. She was the last of her people left alive from her encampment, her and her precious bundle. She had to get the child to some form of safety but where. She remembered that there was a place ahead where her people said that the veil between the worlds was the thinnest if she could just reach that place, if it was indeed there. She was wounded and though she ran with a speed that would astonish most, she was slowing. It was her mother's heart that gave her a renewed strength. She looked over her shoulder and she could not see them those dark minions of evil. But she could hear them and they're slavering. There it was, she could just see the glow up ahead that only she and her kind could see, a glow that signaled the thinness of the veil. At last she had reached it. She did not know if this would be a safer place that she sent her child but it was her only choice she could not go with him, there was not enough room, the space was too small. She put her head through for just a second and saw green fields and in the distance a dwelling. There were flowers there and much beauty and it felt like a place that had not known the horrors that her people had seen. Her child was the last hope of a doomed race and she had to send him away so that he could reach manhood and come back and save his people. She took a necklace from around her neck and held it in the palm of her hand, she looked at her sleeping child and at the necklace and then she whispered words over it and the necklace began to glow blue. After the glow died down she placed the necklace around her baby's neck and kissed him. "Sleep Arrendil may the peace of Eru guide you and protect you and when you are grown may this amulet show you who you are and what your people are and may you see the truth and come back home for you are the only light left us in this dark world you are our only hope my beloved". She whispered words of protection over her child. She could hear the dark ones coming closer. She took her little one and placed him on the other side of the thin veil and then whispered words that would hide the veil for a time, so that the evil ones could not find the opening. Then with tears falling down her cheeks she whispered Arrendil and stood up and she ran…
