035: "Messenger."
The eagles have ever been a friend to the family of Finwë, though Nerdanel thinks this youngling looks grudgingly dutiful at best.
"Hiril." He sets the missive in her outstretched hand and is again blending into the empyrean blue.
Dread begins trembling in her fingers as she breaks the seal. The rustic tengwar of her youngest's handwriting, strangely blotched, is both a comfort and a terror, amplified hundredfold as Ambarussa's words take shape.
Umbarto is dead. Immolated by his own father.
Before this moment, she has never been paralyzed between grief and hatred.
It is the most ghastly sensation imaginable.
Hiril = Lady (Sindarin)
tengwar = writing, script, alphabet (literally letter in Quenya)