Yulnii Elibar'acal, a young mali'aheral, frowns when she hears of this.
"The Owl outlasted the Eagle, it seems... I... I never..." the words come in random jerks, as she has a hard time processing this. "Rest in peace..." she lets a few tears fall down her cheeks, grieving for the newly married man.
Across the Fringe, in the Keep of the Sentinels, Kristian von Craw has a very different reaction. Instead of tears, he simply stares forward, looking at the wall. An old uniform hangs off to the side, the white and blue of the Sylvadrim guard.
"Well... didn't see that comin'. S'pose I should call this a victory, aye?" he says to himself, pulling an old morningstar off the wall, "The las' fightin' remant o' Malinor's gone. We win... So why do I feel like this?"
"Ah, for Creator's sake, it should've been me t'kill ya, Eleron. Y'deserve that much. Political games, war... 'twas a battle 'tween the Lion, the Eagle, an' the Crawfish, wadn't it? An' the nation's we stood fer. It's a darn... darn shame. The worl' moves on an' the people we know go 'way."
Resigning himself to that fact, Kristian walks over to a small book, a brown journal of no obvious value, labeled 'Those I Know'. Opening it up, it seems to span about twenty pages, the script small. Turning to the final page, he looks down at the bottom of the list, with the names in no particular order. A trend over all the pages seems to be that most of the names are crossed out, denoting something terrible. One last page is filled with a random sparkling of names, Eleron's at the bottom. With a single stroke, he crosses it out.
Dvari
Morg
Guren
Robard
Quadlyn
Ragnar
Zaniil
Miss Nienna
Naeri
Tundrak Family
Eleron
"I do 'ope that when y'died, y'ad no 'ate for me."