Chapter 2~
Year 3019, March 27
Faramir lay in his bed humming to the child. She was already precious to him. He felt somehow that it was his own. The shades had been drawn back and he could see Merry and Eowyn sleeping peacefully in the beds near him. Pippin was in a chair next to Merry's bed, he was also sleeping. He heard the door creak open and Aragorn was standing there. He smiled at how caring Faramir had become for the child,
" What are you going to call her?" Faramir looked steadily back at the child,
" I know not, for I do not know what my brother would have called her." Faramir looked long at her then he noticed a gold gleam from beneath her blankets. He pulled then back slightly and he pulled out a golden locket in the shape of a leaf. He studied it for a moment before flipping it over and seeing a small inscription on the back.
" Eryn," he said slowly. It was what the locket read, what her mother named her.
" It suits her green eyes." Aragorn said not realizing the locket in Faramir's hand.
" That is what her mother and father called her, so shall I." He held up the locket for Aragorn to see. He was right, it looked very similar to his Elven brooch, except the fact that it was gold and a locket. Just as he was about to say something Ioreth came into the room. She looked at the baby and gaped. Eowyn's eyes flickered open; she looked at Faramir and smiled kindly, yet slightly surprised.
Faramir looked fondly at the child he held. He noticed that Merry and Pippin were both awake looking at him. They smiled. Legolas and Gimli came into the room. Gimli stared, dumbstruck at the child. Legolas just smiled. They all looked at her, Gimli, Legolas, Merry, and Pippin saw something familiar when they looked at her. They could not put their finger on it.
" She's beautiful," Legolas said softly.
" What are you going to call her?" Pippin asked, curiously.
"This is Eryn. She will stay with us for a long while."
That was the first time any of them saw the child. Eryn, wood or forest, aptly named for her striking grayish-green eyes, Daughter of Boromir and Kitola, and true heir to the stewardship of Gondor.