"Please tell me? Who did it? How do you know?"
"It was Linhir. He told me his plans."
"Where did he take you?"
"To our house. Oh, you must not tell him it was I. He said that if I told anyone, he would beat me until I could not move. He beats me often. We live on the western outskirts of Ostgiliath."
"What is your name?"
"Serindë."
"I need a nursemaid for Ecthelion and Lórindol. I will give you a room in the palace, tonight for a fact. Away from Linhir."
"Thank you, my lady. I would like that."
"It looks as if it shall storm," Cimorene said quietly, watching clouds form in the sky. "Therefore, you should go inside, talk to Erestor about the room. I must leave you."
Cimorene ran out of the hall and into the Royal stables. She mounted Gwaidal, the swiftest horse in the city. She arrived there in minutes.
Cimorene knocked on the door. She heard Linhir yell, "Wait half a minute."
She did not wait the half a minute, she kicked the door down. Linhir was stood there, shock and anger written on his face. She telekinetically flung him across the room. He sat still dazed. Cimorene advanced towards him.
"You think you can get me if you hurt my child. It just makes me loathe you even more. She did nothing to you. She is an innocent child. I can have lightning strike you here and now. Everything is in my control."
She flung him out the door and right into the arms of the waiting guards who had followed her. They took him away instantly.
"Cat?" Cimorene called. "Where's nana's special Cat?"
"'NA!" came a muffled scream.
"Cat, talk to nana. Where are you?"
"Dark 'Na. It dark. I scared of monsters."
Cimorene opened every door looking for the closet Cat was inside. After what seemed like hours, she found the elfling huddling in a corner of a closet. She picked Cat up and held her close. "My darling, my darling baby."
"I hurt." Cat said quietly.
"Nana's going to take you home now. We'll be home soon."
Cimorene orbed into the palace infirmary. She set Cat down on the bed. "Now tell Nana where you hurt."
"Ev'rywhere. I hurt ev'rywhere." Cat said.
Cimorene found a major number of gashes and bruises on her daughter's small body. The sun had risen before she had finished. Cat had fallen asleep after Cimorene gave her some tea with sleeping herbs in it.
"Cimorene, you need to rest." Glorfindel muttered as he entered the room. "I will have someone watch over her."
"Who? Who can I trust?" Cimorene snapped.
"Erestor. That’s who. I've already asked him and he has already agreed to watch her. If anything happens, he'll call us."
"Fine."
Glorfindel took Cimorene into his arms and embraced her reassuringly. "She will be alright. She will live. Cat's a tough little elfling.
Glorfindel lead Cimorene to their bedchamber. He motioned for Erestor to watch over Cat.
Cimorene lay down on the bed and was asleep in minutes. Glorfindel lay next to her and he was asleep the moment his head touched the pillow.
Soon Cimorene was tossing and turning in her sleep. Her dreams were troubling her.
"Estel?" She asked.
"Mae Govannen, nana." Aragorn said.
She saw Aragorn and Arwen standing there. "How I have missed you two. I haven't seen you in years. Your ada misses you both so much."
"We miss you too, Cimorene." Arwen said, tears shining in her grey eyes.
"I got your sword, Estel. Lyra gave it to me. Why you didn't give it to Eldarion is beyond me."
"Nana, we're here for a reason. And it's not a very good one." Aragorn said.
"Estel, I am afraid I don’t understand you. What do you mean?"
"Mandos sent us. We are pretty much the Angels of Death. It's a temporary job before the Happening. We are here to bring him someone. Someone near and dear to you." Arwen explained.
"I'm sorry," Aragorn said, "But it's our orders. If we don't collect the soul, then the list is messed up and we cannot collect the souls that follow. We have to collect them in the order that is on the list. We don't want to have to do this to you, but we must."
Cat appeared in front of Cimorene.
"No!" Cimorene screamed. "Don't take Cat. She's just a little elfling. I'll go, but don’t take my little girl."
We have to. If we don’t then the whole scheme is thrown off. It has to happen this way." Arwen said.
Aragorn, Arwen and Cat faded away until she couldn't see them anymore.
"No. Not my baby girl. NO!"


