"What are you talking about?!" Elizabeth screamed her face one of shock, confusion and anger. Her father, Jarecio sighed. Persuading his daughter was going to be harder than he thought. "It is for your own protection."

He said pleading with her, trying to make his daughter see reason. "Erebor is safe, and I'm sure that the prince will make an excellent husband for you."

She stared at her father disbelievingly. "I don't need protection, I can handle myself fine. I can handle myself just perfectly!"

She stormed out of the room as her mother came and asked what all the yelling was about. "Get away from me!"

Queen Jukilao sighed, and then turned to her husband fuming. "Why did you do that?" The king sighed and walked out of the room, his wife following behind and yelling at him, while he was complaining about the babies being affected and her mood swings.

Elizabeth reached the stables and ran to Maggia, flinging her arms around his neck and pulling herself up, not bothering with a saddle. She reached forward, cut the rope on the gate, and urged him into a fast run. They ran until they were deep into the woods at the edge of a jagged cliff on a cracked ledge that jutted out by a large waterfall that fell down to the ground and formed the stream below.

"Arrggghhh!" She screamed and ran over to the nearest thing she could find, that being a tall oak, and punched it, cracking the bark. She did this till her hands were red with her own blood and she had worn herself out to exhaustion. She washed the blood from her hands in the stream and looked over her shoulder to see the damage she had done.

Rocks were cracked and bloody fist prints were embedded into the trees. Bark was scattered all over the ground, in small piles underneath the trees.

She sighed and walked over to sit overtop the cave, swinging her feet back and forth thinking of when her mother had told her some of the best news ever.

~Flashback~

"Come here darlings." Her mother called laughing, as she saw the mess her kids had gotten into while practicing. "I won mama! I beat them!" Elizabeth said smiling and jumping slightly on her toes, causing her black hair to bounce. "And them got dirty by doing so I see. "She said, leaning back on her palms. Her eldest, Dain, had sticks in his hair and mud on his shoes. Terron, her middle child, had mud and grass stains on his knees and leaves in his hair. She was happy that she had left Jora, Mora, and Koylain at the palace

"She beat them into the ground I bet." She thought, proud of her daughter. Calm down sweetie. I have news for you all.""Are you sick? You weren't feeling so well this morning." Dain asked, worry evident in his eyes and ton. "No dear. I feel much better now thank you."

"Then what is it?" Her daughter asked, lying down on the blanket staring at the sky, her brothers doing the same, unknown to them making a triangle. "Well, here goes nothing." She muttered to herself and took a deep breath.

"I'm pregnant." She said, looking at her children's faces that were slowly taking in her words. Dain was the first to respond. "That's great!" He sat up and kissed her on the forehead. " Do you know what gender?" Terron said, kissing her on the cheek as well. The Queen nodde a smile on her face. "Girls. I'm believe I'm having twins."

Elizabeth was a different story. "YYYEEEESSSS!" She screamed, throwing her hands in the air, and hugging her mother, then running over and jumping up and down along with her brothers. "I'm going to have 2 little sisters!" She shouted with glee a large smile on her face.

~Flashback Over~

She sighed, remembering how happy everyone was then, and how horrible it was now. She flinched as she heard a twig snap, and then sighed as her brothers started talking. "You know you have to go." Terron stated, sitting down next to her. "We will miss you sister." Dain said placing a hand on her shoulder.

"But why do I have to go?" She complained, putting her head in her hands. "It's considered basically death if you have to be forced to marry someone,, when you don't even love them, and you just have to cause your parent tells you to. "It's our duty to do what is expected of us." Dain stated, trying to calm her down. "Maybe I don't want to do what we have to do. It's my life, I should get to live it how I want."

Dain exchanged glances with his brother as they both sighed. They were going to have to use their desperate card, the only one she would listen to.

"It's for the good of our family and the our people." They said simultaneously. She sighed and stood up, pulling her brothers close. "I'm going to miss you." She sniffled, a lone tear running down her cheek. "Where are the others?" She asked, hastily wiping it away. "At grandfathers. Mom didn't want them to have to say goodbye to you, so they're coming back tomorrow evening."

"Let's go home." She slipped out of their grasp and jumped on Maggia who shook her head at the sudden weight. "Race you home." She called taking off into the woods her brothers racing after her laughing, calling out different versions of cheater!, leaving the whisper of the wind through the trees the only sign that anyone had been there.

"Your people." She whispered as she laid down on her bed for the last time. "Not mine. They will never be mine." Then the darkness took her and she slept.