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Chapter Fifty-One :: How Far We've Come
Faramir sat down to write a letter. A letter that he had wanted to write, almost wrote, didn't write, and finally broke down and wrote now. With guilt and sorrow pent up and spilling on the pages, he finished as he penned:
Eowyn has died. The woman I knew to be so strong faced the same fate as my mother and could not move out of the shadow of childbirth. He is Elboron – we had agreed upon the name. It is the only memory she has left behind.
And so I selfishly send this letter detailing my thoughts and all the words I had left unsaid. You deserved so much more than this, Sarah. My only hope is that you can forgive me after how far we've come. But I will always understand if you refuse.
With this I ask you send back the color red if you no longer wish my love. The color white is my dearest hope, that you would be willing in the attempt at such that we should have had long ago.
To the family of Sarah, send the shade of black if she no longer walks this land. That she has retired to the Halls of Mandos, in which I will see her again when my day comes.
He ended without his numerous titles and put simply: Faramir.
"My lord?" A man peered into the room before presenting himself.
Faramir looked up from his papers with a tired but ever-hopeful stare in his dim grey eyes.
After a short word, the Prince of Ithilien quite literally leapt from his chair and hastened down the steps. All who saw him wondered as their leader ran like a school boy to see the messenger come.
The poor man barely dismounted his horse when Faramir was upon him. Breathing heavily from the sprint, he asked: "Word? From Rohan?"
"Barely, my lord." The messenger replied, lifting the flap of his leather rucksack. "Just this – I've never seen anything like it. Is it some sort of code?"
"Yes… it is." Faramir took up in his hand the delicate Camellia Sasanqua flower, glowing bright white in the afternoon sunshine.