After speaking with Aragorn, Mardon and Galimir were shown to their lodgings and were left to themselves with the invitation to join Aragorn and his family that evening for dinner. Once Mardon had rested a little while he then decided to take a walk in part of the city. Leaving Galimir resting he left their room and started to explore.

He had not been walking long when he saw a couple of young women walking together and talking slightly ahead of him. Their robes indicated that they were of a higher class than others he had seen that day. One of these women glanced back in his direction and nearly took his breath away. She was tall and slender with long black tresses that tumbled down her back. Her face was fair and her eyes were as grey as a clear evening.

The woman was, though he did not know it then, the youngest daughter of Aragorn - Ariel. It was said by anyone that she had the grace and beauty of her mother and by those that knew her - the heart and strength of her father. Walking with her was Aragorn's next youngest daughter Hafwen who's hair was dark and her eyes were also grey but to Mardon and many others she was not as fair. This was also true for their elder sister though they were both beautiful many thought Ariel had inherited her mother's elvish beauty.
Hafwen said something as Ariel looked back behind her for a moment and saw the Ranger. From the way he was dressed she knew that he was not from Minas Tirith. She wondered what business could have brought him to the city and if he was even of Gondor. "I'm sorry, what did you just say?" She asked her sister.

"Your head is always in the clouds," Hafwen smiled. "I asked you if you enjoyed your sword training this morning?" She asked they rounded a corner and left the Ranger's sight. Ariel had often trained alongside her elder brother, Eldarion in the skill of swordsman-ship. Ariel nodded. "Yes, I did, though sometimes I find that it is pointless. I will probably never see a war in my lifetime," She said and fell silent for a moment as they headed back towards their home.

It was not common for women to fight, in fact, it was extremely rare. There was only knowledge of one woman who had ever fought in a battle. She was a woman whom Ariel had always admired and had loved to hear about when she was a child. She was the Lady Éowyn, the Shieldmaiden of Rohan who, with the halfling Meriadoc, had defeated the Lord of the Nazgûl during the War of the Ring.

Like Aderyn, their elder sister and most women, Hafwen took no pleasure in anything to do with swords or riding horses. Hafwen thought that horses were beautiful creatures but never wished to learn to ride. "But you have a gift, perhaps there is a reason why you have learnt to wield a sword," Hafwen said.