At times she wondered what really happened to Alice after she had returned from Wonderland. Could she return to being a normal "little girl" after having such fantastic adventures with the creatures and beings that she had met? Could she even remember anything that has happened? When Alice was no longer a girl, but a woman, could she even recall that it was nothing less than reality, as opposed to a dream?

When she was but a child of ten, she had been moving from the city into the countryside, for reasons that she had forgotten a long time ago… And her parents had unwittingly took a shortcut into the forest. They stopped before a strange, squat statue, and went into a tunnel.

And with her father taking the first step, they ventured into a realm that no one could ever comprehend.

That fantastically chaotic realm of the Gods and Spirits, that colorful bathhouse filled with danger and splendor, friends, and enemies that she had gained… No, she was wrong, there had been no enemy of hers in the bathhouse, only challenges, for if she remembered clearly, even the hardest of souls to overcome (no pun intended), was a loving mother, even if she had been a cranky witch who had grown callous over her quest for money and power…

There had been a time when Chihiro did not know whether what she had been through had been a dream, or had been true reality. As she grew older, she tried desperately to find that patch of forest lined by small stone shrines and the statues that marked that the tunnel was close. And as the days passed into weeks, the weeks into months, and the months into years, life caught up with her, and she had abandoned her fruitless quest altogether, but not because she had given up hope. No, far from it.

"My darling girl," her grandmother (her biological one, and not the gentle witch with a wide head whose twin sister had turned her parents into pigs) told her one day when she related her experiences to the aging woman, who had been the only one who listened to and understood her tales. "You have been given a great blessing, make no mistake. However, you must remember that we are mere mortals, who cannot pass the realms of those above us willy-nilly no matter how much we want to. You have already visited once, and they have given you their love. Now, you must be patient, and one day, they would come to you."

Thus, Chihiro looked into her own grandmother's eyes and her lips curled into a smile. Filled with renewed hope, her hand went to touch the purple hair-tie that had been given to her during her escapades in that ream. She hugged her grandmother, thanking for her advice and looked out the window.

The paddy-fields of her grandmother's house was looked just like the great lake before the bath-house… Rolling green, the paddy-stalks bending in the wind like emerald waves.

Yes, one day, she'll see them again. And one day… she'll be with him again.


"We'll meet again, right?"

"We will, I promise…"


HAN: Hello there! Arhani Daforcena here! I don't usually write Spirited Away fanfics (most of my works concern Rurouni Kenshin, Blood+ and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2), and I think that my first one, a Narnia/SA crossover was... not one of my best. Well, I wrote this fic as response to a challenge by a friend, but I hope that you guys would enjoy it as well. I was to write a fic within 30 chapters containing a prompt-drawing and the caption: "My life was perfect without you"

Here's a link to the picture concerned just remove the spaces!

http: / i954. photobucket . com / albums / ae23/ dark40rcehan

Enjoy, y'all, and I'll see you on the next update!

PS: Don't ask me why I chose a Sindarin (the Elvish language of the Lord of the Rings) title for this fic, I felt like it just fits. Anyways, if the grammar is wrong could anyone please correct it? Thanks!