Retired Gildor
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Sarah the babysitter tucked her wooly cloak around her and pulled the hood up. It was a cold winter morning when she set off through the snow determent of find the magistrate. Zyphlin was located in the commons. She handed him a small yellow envelope containing a brass key, and the word "Zander" written in green ink on the front. The magistrate studied the key puzzled for a moment before Sarah explained.
Alexander the son of Gildor had been living with her the few months that the elf had been missing. Now at the stroke of midnight she had appeared at her door, looking both stressed and agitated. She had little to say and didn't take kindly to Sarah's accusations regarding abandoning her child for such a long period. Instead she apologized hastily in such a genuine manner that Sarah could not help but feel something very wrong had happened, and didn't press the subject.
Gildor stood there with two hastily packed bags and told her she had come to collect her son. She handed her the envelope, saying she had no time to talk but to bring it to the magistrate Zyphlin, tell him she loved him and that she had never once stopped feeling differently for him, that he would never see her again, but he would be in her thoughts. Sarah asked how long she would be gone for, and with Gildor taking her son's hand she smiled over at the babysitter with her usual cheeky grin.
"…I think an eternity I think will do the trick." she gave the woman a wink and with a warm hug of farewell handing her a diamond bracelet as an odd sort of payment for all the troubles, before she was seen walking in to the darkness, vanishing out of sight.
Sarah couldn't help but feel that this time, would be the last time she would see the elf, but wherever she were, both she and her son would do well.
The end
