Maglor follows the wind and the birds inland, eyes walking half in the Song and not in the physical world at all (It is dangerous, his teachers of long ago warned, to loose yourself in the Music so, but Maglor is long past the point of caring). Why the last of the Feanorionnath has not Faded only Maglor could tell you, and he does not know himself. He stayed away from the camps of the elves, stayed away from those who might have claimed him family, and yet he did not die. And he does still have family, scattered and sparse though they are. Curufin had a son, and everyone knows that story, how Celebrimbor's pride and wish to surpass his father brought about his downfall. But who now remembers that there were two others of the brothers who were wed - Caranthir, and Maglor himself. Maglor's wife is dead, slain by his own hand in Alqualonde, a mistake he can never atone for. He had children, too, and he left them in Valinor, unable to bear to face them, knowing that he had slain their mother, and wishing to spare them the family curse. What he did not know was that when the Hosts of the Valar sailed to Middle-earth led by his uncle, his children came with them. How would he know, after all? The Feanorionnath fought on the side of the Valar but never with them, their hosts never overlapped. And when the fleets sailed back without the Silmarilli, Maglor's children stayed behind to look for their father.

They never did find him. But his son married a Sindar girl with dark chestnut hair, and their daughter had hair the same colour of flame as her great-great-grandmother. They were slain, the child left parentless at the borders of Mirkwood, and unknowing of her heritage, the Woodland King raised her. By the time Maglor learnt what had happened, he knew better than to come and claim her. What life could he offer her, after all? Better than she stay safe and far away. But the family curse, it seems, is not so eager to let their family go.

He comes upon her curled on herself, and hesitates briefly before coming to kneel before her.

"Oh child. I am so sorry."