Optimus the Elf Lord looked down on the gardens of Iacon, where his children played, elf and human. From the way they laughed and scuffled you would hardly have known that Rodimus was the elder by a full hundred years--or how soon it would be that Daniel would have to grow old and fulfill his destiny among men.

But Rodimus did not seem to care, nor did Daniel; and so Optimus admonished himself to enjoy the moment.