Pride

Dearest Eglantine,

What our proud husbands will not do, wives and mothers must. While we fear for our sons, they are not alone in their journey and we must trust to hope and good hobbit sense to bring them home. These are dark times for the Shire and the more so when Master and Thain stand at odds, separated by grief and blame. Saradoc looks East to hope and my brother inward with sorrow, but we must wake them to the dangers now near for our boys to have homes to return to.

Esmerelda Brandybuck
Mistress of Buckland