"Rest your weary soul, I shall keep you safe instead." The beginning of a single song, resting on her ears. Although the singer was no longer there. Seated in a chair at her small home outside of Bree-town, it was quiet with only the sound of the evening, spring breeze whistling through the window of her bedroom. She envisioned her Mother walking briskly in a large scholar's archive, she would often sing as she sought forgotten lore. "Rest your weary soul, Rest your weary head. I shall keep you safe instead. From morning light to twilight, at sorrow's edge and joy's embrace." Gwaedhiell would never forget entering their personal archives and overhearing the singing. It was strange, when her Mother sung her voice turned ethereal and light. Whereas when she was speaking to her children, her tongue was sharp as a blade and cold as ice. Gwaedhiell had come to regret that day, eavesdropping on her Mother so. Was she a wicked woman? Or simply one that became bitter and resentful with age and power. Gwaedhiell often questioned this and as any child, she didn't want to believe that her Mother cared only for others when it met her own needs or desires.
Another memory of childhood this was, Gwaedhiell had been but twelve years. She remembered walking down the spiraling, black stairs and the marble floors. "Mother what was that song you were singing?" She inquired "It was beautiful." Lady Hestien turned to her daughter with the same chilling stare. She would not answer the girl, she abandoned her, disappearing up the long spiraling black stairwell. To wallow in her black, cold heart. The girl's head lowered and she stood there staring off in the direction her mother went. Returning to reality Gwaed scoffed to herself "You never made any sense. What will it take? Will it not be until death knocks on your door? And in your dying breath and only then that you think of me?" She rose from her seat and walked to her bedroom window watching the stars. "Lady Gwaedhiell of Gondor. Never did I think it would mean so little. But if it's one thing I know.. I'll never be like you."
