10. A Tale of Himling

The winter passed and spring returned to the island of Himling, with blue skies and shy blooms nodding in the brisk breeze.

The wizard left the island, sailed back to the green shores of Forlindon and never returned.

Tamer married Jehan and only a three months later she bore him a daughter, a pretty little baby girl with the piercing grey eyes.

But Tamer did not keep up the tradition of her family, being the wizard's housekeeper and tending the wizard's cottage and its garden. Indeed, after he left, she never walked up the hill of Himring again as long as she lived.

Many storms and many winters later, nothing remains of that white cottage looking towards the western horizon and across the Sundering Seas. But if you walk up to the standing stone of Himring, you will find a sheltered dell on the western side of the hill that is filled with blooming red roses.

And if you go down to the harbour and listen to the tales the fishermen tell, as they sit on the quay and mend their nets, you may hear a tale of a woman who once loved a wizard. And if they notice that you are interested in their quaint stories about wizards and fortune telling and such, they might send you to the boatwright, for it is said that the youngest daughter of the boatwright of Himling can see beyond the boundaries of the presence and beyond the tides of time.

But if those tales are true, I do not know.

They might only be that:

fishermen's tales, tales of the island of Himling, about a wizard and a woman, and maybe, of love.

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The End

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A/N: I hope you have enjoyed this little exploration of what Gandalf might have done when he was not running around fighting black riders and saving the world. (grin)

An illustrated version of this story can be found on my LiveJournal, juno(underscore)magic, tagged as "short stories".

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