Odettes Story Part 3
When Odette awoke in the morning, she found that someone had set out some fresh clothes. She guessed that they had seen how holey her own clothes were.
When she had eaten, cleaned herself, dressed herself, and gotten her bow and arrows, and her sword, she headed out to the practice ring.
When she got there however, there were hardly any elves on the field, for they had mostly finished. Her usual partner for this though, was still out, knowing her usual time, and deciding to come out then, instead of earlier.
"Hello young one." He said to her, holding back a laugh.
"I've told you before, don't call me 'young one'." Odette told him, ferociously.
"Ouch, grouchy today, are we?" He said, still amused, and not the least bit daunted from her retort.
When they were fighting, Odette started to see that she was having fun, strangely enough. The only reason she ever trained with the elves was because she did not want to seem discourteous, for their request.
"Well Meryl, looks like you are starting to get old. Are you tired already?" Odette started to tease, wanting to have some fun, before he dropped the playful mood.
"No, you are starting to gain your gift, and to prevail in accomplishing everyone's goals for you." Meryl told her, when he stopped moving for the moment, to catch his breath.
"I do not have a gift, I've told everyone this same message many different times, how many do I have to say it?" Odette asked, starting to get annoyed.
"Do you think that fate would let you not have a gift? You have the power to destroy." Meryl told her, finally catching his breath.
"I only trust fate to a certain extent, there is not any gift of destruction in me." Odette told him, still not wanting to believe it.
"You have a gift, and you will someday believe it, but it seems that today is not that day." Meryl said, looking her strait in the eyes.
Odette started to think that there could actually be a gift, for no elf would ever look you in the eyes and tell you something, without it being true.
They fought some more, and then switched to fighting with two swords, and since this was their first time, at least for Odette, she got complimented quite a bit, since she was not bad at it at all.
After a few more moments, they stopped for the day, though by then, they had gained an audience, and one of the few people was her brother, and another was Lord Elrond.
Of all the people Odette didn't mind watching them, he was not one of them, for now he would go preaching to her again, about her gift, and then expect her to use it for the battle, and to better the world. Odette was not interested.
To get away from this, she figured that she would go ahead and leave. But before she could do this, she had to say goodbye to Arwen.
When she got to Arwens usual quarters, she found that she was not there. She asked a passing elf where she could be, and was told that she had not come this time in.
When she found this out, she decided to just leave, so she packed her things, saddled her horse, and was on her way out, when Aragorn joined her, likewise ready for travel.
"I need your help, as you well know, and so I will be going with you, so when you finish what you must do quickly, then you may come with me to Minas Tirith." Aragorn told her, mounting his horse, and smiling.
"Now, you know that I cannot just help you like that. I have things of my own I must do. You may ride ahead without me, and as soon as I finish what I must, then I will go to Minas Tirith, and join you, but it will not be all that very soon. Besides, I must get my own horse, and get rid of this one. It goes so slow, you would pass me up when it is still quite energized, and your horse tired." Odette said, trying to get her point across.
"Fine, then I shall see you in Minas Tirith. Don't stay wherever too long. We must hurry if we are going to survive." Aragorn said, starting to worry.
After several days of traveling, she finally got to where she had left her horse. Rohan. She went to the great hall, and told the lady that she would need her horse back now, and that she must hurry, so it must be prepared at once.
There was no time wasted, and she was soon on her way again. After another three days, of hard riding, she reached Minas Tirith, and went to go meet with Lord Aragorn.
"Lord Aragorn." Odette said, bowing before him.
Aragorn turned, and looked at her, "Ah, yes, Odette, you have made it. Very nice. I am in need of your help, and so I have asked some of my men to be under your service when you got here. Strange enough, they know that they will all be safe when you got here, for they somehow knew that you could fight well."
In the morning, it seemed that Lord Aragorn had something else in store for Odette.
"Arwen left for Rivendell two fortnights ago, and she should have been back by now, but I do not know what has happened to her. I need you to go to Rivendell, the battle is going to start very soon, I will not leave my people, but I want her here, so that I know that she will be protected." Aragorn told her, knowing that if she went, Arwen would come home safe.
"I leave immediately." Odette said, going to saddle her horse.
When she had gotten her horse saddled, one of the men that was under her came up to her to bring her food for the journey.
"Thank you. I shall be back soon, and you had all better be here, if you are not, I shall have to have Lord Aragorn bring you back so I can kill you again. Any of you die, I'll kill you myself." Odette said, smiling at the soldier.
When she had gotten out of the city, she looked back, thinking that this was the last time that she would see it this peaceful for a long time yet to come. She also thought that this would be the last time that she would see some of her friends, for they would probably die in the war.
On this journey, she was on her own horse, so she was at least able to go faster than with the borrowed horses. Her horse had, it seemed, never ending stamina, so she just rode straight through without stopping, for the journey was very important.
When she was just three days from Rivendell, she stopped to let her horse eat some grass, while they both rested, and she ate a bit of food, then slept for about one watch, and left again for Rivendell.
