No one has called him that in years (even Osse, on the rare times he shows, calls him his little fireling, and usually uses Maglor if he is going to use his name at all) and it is only that that pulls him up short and stops him retreating further, although he continues to claw at himself in distress, shaking his head.

"Makalaure is dead, he's dead, it can't be you, it can't"