She quickly dashed out of her room trying to catch up to Legolas. "Legolas wait!" She spotted him not too far down the hall.
Legolas stopped and turned around, he tilted his head to the side a bit and his eye brows pointed to the ground as he waited for her to catch up to him. "What is it my lady."
Eruanna stopped right in front Legolas with her arms down at her side, her hands in tight fists as she held back her frustration. "You can stop treating me so nicely. I don't want to be treated nicely because you know other people. You don't know me and that's what I want to be judged on." She paused for a moment realizing that she wasn't quite holding back. Inhaling a deep breath she spoke again. "I don't want you to take me on your travels because you are doing a favor for someone, I want you to want to take me, because you want to help me."
Redness quickly covered Eruanna's face as she thought back on her words. Her words sounded as if she was jealous and in a way confessing to him. She put her head down, no longer able to look at him.
Legolas rested a hand on her shoulder. "Sure the reason I said I would do it is because Eldarion asked me to, but that's not the true reason I want to do this." He tilted her chin up to look into her eyes. "I want to get to know you. I've watched Eldarion and Vanya grow up, but I've missed out on your life." Without another word he turned back around and started to walk away again.
Eruanna reached out an arm to grab him to try and stop him once more. She caught the edge of his tunic.
"You're going with me, so why don't you go pack some stuff."
She let his tunic slip out of her grasp. A small smile crept on her face as she turned around back towards her room. This has been the day she had been waiting for, for most of her life, though this was better than she had expected. A handsome man that seems to have already stolen her heart was going to be the one to open up the world she had been longing to see.
Eruanna had quickly made her way back to her room. After closing the door behind her she looked down at her dress. She knew she couldn't wear such a thing on the type of journey she was going on.
She placed herself in front of her closet. She started to flip through her clothes remembering that she had an old tunic from when she learned how to handle a bow. Right as she located it in the back of her closet, a knock came at the door. She peeked behind the closet door and watched as her bedroom door opened.
"Eruanna may I come in."
"Eldarion!" She came out from behind the door of the closet and rushed to her brother giving him a big hug. "I'm going to miss you so much."
"I'm going to miss you too. That's why I'm here to give you some things." After Eruanna let go, he walked over to her bed to set out some stuff.
Eruanna followed, a bit puzzled with how he had stuff for her journey when she had only just decided to go. "How did you know that I would be leaving?"
Eldarion let out a small childish laugh. "How could I not know? You are my precious little sister that I know everything about, and Legolas coming along. He's quite a looker." He let out another chuckle. "It was too perfect. Plus you two are such a perfect pair."
Eruanna blushed and lightly punched her brother on the shoulder. "I don't know what you mean by that. I'm just going with him because he can take me and father trusts him."
"Whatever you say." Eldarion gently pinched her cheek and gave her a sparkling smile. "So I brought you a new tunic to wear."
Eruanna picked up the tunic. The fabric wasn't too heavy, so it would be easy to move in. She stared at it for a moment thinking that the color was similar to Legolas's tunic, but it was a bit darker in color.
"I'm worried about you getting hurt so I also got you some chainmail to wear under it." He placed something that looked like chainmail on the bed, but it wasn't quite chainmail.
Eruanna looked at her brother with wide eyes. "This isn't chainmail this is…"
"Mithril." Eldarion finished what she was saying with a voice that seemed as though he was very proud of himself. "You must be wondering where I could have gotten something like this."
Eruanna nodded her head, still shocked to say a word as she stared in awe at it.
"Father knew someone who had it, and they didn't need it anymore. We both knew that you would leave us some day and you would need something like this to protect yourself." Eldarion paused as he also put a bow on her bed as well as a quiver full of arrows. "You might need these too."
"Eldarion…Thank you!" Eruanna embraced her brother with small tears in her eyes.
He laid his lips across her forehead as he gave a gentle, loving kiss. He pulled back and crouched down a bit to better look into her eyes. "Please be safe. Don't do anything stupid. Never leave Legolas's side." He held her close again. "If anything were to happen to you, I wouldn't know what to do anymore."
"I promise to be good." Eruanna looked up at her brother.
"Good." Eldarion left the hug and placed a hand on her head and gave her hair a bit of a ruffle. "Well I shouldn't take up any more of your time you have to get ready. Make sure to get a lot of rest tonight, you don't want to be a burden on the journey." He turned and left Eruanna standing there.
She watched as her brother left the room before looking back at her bed and excitingly gaze at all of the new goodies that would help her on her most anticipated journey. She set her new tunic off to the side and placed the bow and quiver with it. She picked up the mithril to get one last look at it before placing it with the rest of her stuff.
Her eyes started to feel heavy. The bed was calling her to her dreams where for one last night they will be a dream before becoming her life. She pulled back the covers and crawled into bed. Gently placing her head on the soft feathered pillow she closed her eyes and drifted off.
