Of Ladies and Thieves

CHAPTER ONE

*** Ok I am not pretending that I own anything that is all down to JRR Tolkien and his amazing imagination I want to thank Lori as well because she has helped as well. Please R & R because this is my first Fic and if I am rubbish I would like to know! Thankies :P ***

She ran down the street and behind a building and stopped, clutching her knees, trying to regain her breath. Her once beautiful blue eyes still wide and scared, her face red from the chase. She straightened up and pulled her old brown cloak around her. Like most things it was in rags and too big for her. She sat on the ground and looked in a puddle at her feet and sighed. The once beautiful Lorien elf sat looking at her reflection for a moment before reaching into her cloak and pulled out her prize, a loaf of bread. She broke a small peice off and started to eat, a single tear feel down her face as she thought how lucky she was to escape.
She got to her feet and looked in the small bag at her hip. It was almost empty, only containing a single coin in it. She sighed as she walked up the main street of Minas Tirith. She pulled her hood over her head to keep herself from being recognized, though it didn't usually help, she was too well known, for many years she had wondered these streets to survive. She silently weaved through the humans passing round her, slipping her hand into their cloaks and pulling out purses and daggers without being noticed. This was why she was here and not in Lorien. Humans didn't notice things as easily as elves.
After an hour or so she retreats back into the side street and looks in her bag. She could sell the daggers, that would buy her some food for a while and the coins.... the coins could be used in general and right away...but there was not enough for a meal and the daggers could not be sold right away, so, reluctantly she went back onto the street looking for wealthy passers by. After about 10 minutes or so she spotted a Lady walking along the street, she spotted a large purse on her hip and she smiled to herself.