Giedd sculon singan gleomenn...

[lady_shieldarm]

Eowyn's singing voice was a strong one, full to the brink of sorrow and choked off as if she could no longer breathe. She did not cry; she had done enough of that in the bitter cold, in the weeks before metarrë. She sang for the loss of Eomer, for Theoden, for Merry. She sang because there would be none else here to do so for her, or for Rohan

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[rebellious_lady]

Marian still found the seas strange. She'd not seen such bodies of water in her life, Nottingham had rivers, and she'd travelled past lakes, but water you could not see land from was still strange to her.

She recognised Eowyn after a moment, approaching her silently, her feet digging into the sand as she walked. Sand this warm, she wondered at times if it was what the desert was like, in the holy land. Of course, she could never ask Robin.

Her toes touched water, and she smiled. "I never thought it would be so warm."

[lady_shieldarm]

Eowyn looked up, almost startled at the sound of another voice so close to her. Her face softened when she recognized Lady Marian, and she nodded in greeting. "I find it strange, yet I enjoy it. I did not know what the sea looked like, until I arrived here."

[rebellious_lady]

"Nor did I." Marian looked out over the water, the horizon off in the distance. "It goes on so far."

[lady_shieldarm]

"It does," Eowyn agreed. "In my land, we had seas of grass as far as the eye could see." She jumped slightly when the water came rushing back, and shook her head at her foolishness. It was only water.

[rebellious_lady]

"We had forests in Nottingham. Forests and fields. As far as you could see. I knew of the seas, but to see them, to stand in them," She smiled warmly when Eowyn jumped, shaking her head some, "I am still not used to it."

[lady_shieldarm]

"Nor I, truthfully." She did not think she would ever become accustomed to the sight of so much blue water against blue sky. It overwhelmed her, an abyss of another sort. "How goes your day, Marian?"

[rebellious_lady]

"Very well," she responded with a soft and gentle smile. "It has been a quiet sort of day, a contented one. It is strange that at once they can seem so tiring, but another time can seem everything I could want."

[lady_shieldarm]

"The days here do have their own sort of magic." They were nothing like Eowyn's days in Edoras, her care for Theoden, nor the long wait for news of the war and the ride to Gondor.

Even without the strange nature of the place itself, Eowyn felt something stir within herself one day, then calm the next.

[rebellious_lady]

"Have you ever watched the sun set over the water?" It is a serious enough question, brought from their common enough backgrounds. "It is as fire, glowing over the water."