[Child of the 7th Age]

In years to come, the Whitfields and the Millwinds were to see their fortunes turn for the better. The widowed Queen still had friends and continued to look out for the families' interests, grateful for the help they had given in rescuing her daughter. She did not remarry, but focused her attention on her children.

Both the Whitfields and Millwinds came to occupy two sturdy farmsteads on the outskirts of Esgaroth: they held more land than they had possessed in Dale and enjoyed connections with the wealthiest of merchants, who vyed to purchase their crops and livestock.

All of the children -- Elian, Elanor, Eric, and Eli and even timid Daisy -- made sound marriages and lived to old age in the relative peace of Long Lake. Yet, always they were alert for the rare incursions of the wyrm, and his terrible visage haunted their dreams and that of their children. Still the Queen swore that her children or their descendents would someday avenge the death of Girion and rid the people of the wyrm. But therein lies another tale that goes far beyond the bounds of this one.....

~ Finis