Angel From Another World

Chapter 12: To Send Off a Friend

I get up and finally notice the other two of my friends. I walk to them slightly shaking. I give Gimli a small and weak hug before turning and hugging Legolas. I cry as he wraps his arms around me. Clinging to his clothes I stay there, wanting to hide from the world. I didn't want to lose anyone else that I loved. During my short time of knowing Boromir, he had become a brother of sorts.

"Come Nymira, let us send him off properly." Legolas says softly. He walks me to the boats with the wolves, Aragorn, Gimli, and the now-dead Boromir in tow. He gets me to help drag out a boat and put the extra baggage in one of the others. Aragorn then helps Legolas to lay Boromir in it. His sword laid neatly on his chest. I quickly gather a few flowers from nearby and place them around him. His other items are also with him. His shield and now split horn are laid at his head and side. The three males help to push it into the water. I walk in beside it a little but stop when the water reaches my hips.

"Farewell Boromir, son of Gondor. You have been loved in this life, and you will be loved in every life hereafter." I say quietly. I stay in the water as the boat goes over the falls. I begin to sing a song that I had remembered from my old world, that I had sung at Thorin's funeral.

"I saw the light fade from the sky

On the wind, I heard a sigh

As the snowflakes cover my fallen Brothers

I will say this last goodbye

Night is now falling

So ends this day

The road is now calling

And I must away

Over hill and under tree

Through lands where never light has shone

By silver streams that run down to the sea

Under cloud, beneath the stars

Over snow one winter's morn

I turn at last to paths that lead home

And though where the road then takes me

I cannot tell

We came all this way

But now comes the day

To bid you farewell

Many places I have been

Many sorrows I have seen

But I don't regret

Nor will I forget

All who took that road with me

Night is now falling

So ends this day

The road is now calling

And I must away

Over hill and under tree

Through lands where never light has shone

By silver streams that run down to the sea