Love At First Sight

Their daughter cried heartily, her little arms waving in the air. Eothain picked her up and the baby calmed down, but not completely. “She wants her mother,” he said to the figure in the doorway. Siladwen smiled and came to them, taking the babe from him. She sat down in the rocking chair and loosened the laces of the shirt she wore.

“Our little Rian is just hungry, my love,” she said, smiling fondly at their first child, and singing a lullaby in her native tongue. He knelt beside his wife and daughter, swearing to love both of them forever.