That was such a realistic portrait of a young girl's feelings as she is about to leave home - thinking of her attachment to her familiar surroundings, and her reluctance to be "caged."
I loved it!

(I'm pv from the Council of Elrond.)

I'm not sure what betas do. I hope this is it. I like this one. A couple of notes:

I think the line "The sea was a mother, a friend, a sanctuary" would be more poetic with the articles removed. Less grammatical, more poetic. Thus, "The sea was mother, friend, sanctuary."

""Finduilas!" he called to her, seeing her turn to him with a sad smile." I don't like the use of "seeing" here. Did she turn, so he called to her, or did she turn because he called to her? It's unclear.

"Imrahil took note of her action." Something more descriptive would be, "Imrahil saw her fidgeting." "took note of her action" doesn't shed any light, it doesn't help create the mental picture that you have going so well.

Um, those are my big notes. Like I said, I think it's very pretty and evocative. (oh, I'm a great beta. I use words like "evocative")

Hmm...I swear I've seen this before... Perhaps because I beta'ed it? Stranger things have been known to happen. Too bad you couldn't sort your story by character (the two in here being rather obscure). It makes the story kind of...random, like you're thrown into a scene with no backstory or anything. Truly this is a one-shot, and the only critique I would have is that it seems to end rather abruptly. You seemed to have a build up to an adventure story--and then abandoned it to the vicious readers. If readers are lucky you might (someday) amend that 'fin' and continue. As always, kudos!