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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: B11, Echoes in the Water, Landscape, Of the Sea, Currents, Shirish, Snippets of Verse, Writer's Block Smash, Worldbuilding, Tolkien's Trees, Second Age 2, Relationship, Person vs. Self, Injuries or Other Ailments, Hurt/Comfort, Genre 1, Apothecary Garden
Format: ficlet
Genre: family
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: canon death 
Characters: Fastred of Greenholm, Elanor Gardner, Firiel Fairbairn, Elfstan Fairbairn, Faramir Took, Goldilocks Gardner, Samwise Gamgee, Rose Cotton
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): Thank you to Dreamflower for Miss Dora Baggins' Book of Manners and the Writing of Letters, as well as On Funerals sections, with which this story would not exist. 
Summary: Fastred of Greenholm, Warden of the Westmarch, gets some terrible news from Great Smials a few days after Yule.

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