❦ The Evenstar [video; ]

[thelastking]

Arwen.

[He mutters her name quietly in hopes of taming both his disappointment and relief.]

She is gone. There were no other quests for her to have joined. Nothing that would require her time nor presence.

[Silence grips him now as he thinks about the rare moment they spent before she just suddenly vanished. ]

For those who knew her, I'm certain she's well.

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[thelastking]

Have you spoken with Frodo? [He asks this tentatively.]

[undroppedeaves]

[He nods] I have, though it was fair confusing I'm glad he's alright.

[thelastking]

Confusing? [Aragorn could almost guess what the halfling was going to say. In truth, his previous conversation with Frodo was just as confusing to him.] How so?

[undroppedeaves]

Well sir, it seems that what he remembers last happened months before what I happened last and somehow he was here when he was also with me back home.

I don't understand it at all.

[thelastking]

Nor do I, Sam.

[He frowns deeply.]

This confuses me greatly. Frodo seems to bear no knowledge of the Fellowship breaking.

[undroppedeaves]

No he doesn't. For him we have just met with the Lady Galadrial...