007: "A child's truth."

"Amil?"

She halted her lullaby. "Yes, dearest?"

"Why is Ata gone in the night?"

"He goes to tend his crafts. Your ada makes more wondrous things than any Eldar has ever made before."

"He stays away so long. Does he love his crafts more than he loves Maitimo and Macalaurë and me?"

"No! No, dearest, he will ever love you more. No atar could love his things more than his children."

But even as she held Tyelkormo close and pressed a kiss into his brunet mop, she petitioned Eru in desperate silence that her words would prove her foreboding wrong.


Amil = Mother (Quenya)
Ata = Daddy; short form of atar (father) (Quenya)