Leading his wife from the court yard Elrond pondered where the elfling's had come from and how no one had heard about their birth as all the elves had thought that the last elf to be born was his daughter Arwen in the year 241 of the third age and that was 2269 years ago leading many to assume that Arwen would be the last of the elves born on this side of the great sea. Shaking himself out of his pondering Elrond entered his study followed by his wife Celebrian and the guard. Gently Celebrian and the guard placed the elfling's on the rug in the middle of the floor while Elrond dug out a crate of toy's that had belonged to the twins and Arwen. Opening the crate Elrond watched as oldest two elfling's waddled over to the toy's while the youngest looked on sadly. Frowning Elrond crouched down and softly asked "Do you want to play with the toys too?" The young ebony haired elfling nodded enthusiastically then pointed at the soft ball still in the crate. Picking the soft ball out of the crate Elrond couldn't help but feel as thou he had solved all of middle earths problems when he handed the soft ball to the young elf and was rewarded with the biggest smile he had ever seen.
With a deep sigh Elrond stood up and walked back to his desk chair leaving the young elf giggling as he played with the ball. Turning to his wife Elrond asked, "What happened Celebrian?" smiling softly Celebrian in a soft voice began to tell Elrond what had happened saying "The journey to my mother's home was going as planed we were almost at the edge of the Rhudder forest when I heard the loud wailing of a child. Thinking that it was a child of man I told the others to make camp a couple minutes down the road at the edge of the forest as planed while I went to look for the child. After a few minutes of searching we discovered the three children the eldest two were asleep while the youngest one was sobbing between them." looking over to the elfling's Celebrian smiled softly before continuing a small frown on her face as she said, "I tried to discover where their parents were once I woke the eldest two up, but they said their parents were dead." Leaning forward Celebrian frowned deeply her entire body held rigidly as she said, "when I asked the young ones their names they gave me names that belong to men making me think that men must have had them from an early age." Gasping in shock Elrond leaned forward and in a quiet voice as not to draw the attention of the elfling's happily playing on the rug asked, "besides their names what makes you think that." Taking a deep breath Celebrian in a tight voice said, "any time me or the guard moved to quickly the elfling's would flinch meaning they were abused Elrond and even in or darkest moments during the two kin slaying wars no elf ever hurt a child leaving only men as a option as dwarfs like elf's considered children sacred."
Pinching the bridge of his nose Elrond groaned "do we have any idea who these humans are?" sighing sadly Celebrian shook her head. Nodding solemnly Elrond said, "It's a good thing I asked Lindir to send messages to the grey and white Istari as we will need them to perform the lineage spell." Nodding quietly Celebrian watched the young elfling's play on the rug completely unaware of how they had sent Imladris reeling at their arrival. Returning her attention to Elrond Celebrian continued to tell Elrond about how she had brought the elfling's to Imladris saying "As it was getting late we decided to take the children to the camp then make our way back to Imladris in the morning but when we got to the camp it was overrun with orc's normally I would have joined the company in fighting the orc's but with the elfling's at risk I chose to flee back to Imladris. We ran for a week only stopping so that we could refill our water sacks." Nodding Elrond sat back in his chair to think while watching the elfling's play.
Silently Elrond and Celebrian enjoy the sounds of the leaves rustling in the breeze and the distant crash of water while the elfling's giggle and play. Curious Elrond watched the tree elfling's noticing that the two older elfling's playing with a toy for a period of time before getting bored and playing with another toy while the youngest Elfling hadn't moved from where he had been placed and was still playing with the soft ball lifting it up and giggling as he dropped it. Walking over to the young elfling Elrond sat down besides him and asked "Whats your name little one." Jerking in surprise Harry looked up and said "Harry." Before returning to playing with his ball. Walking towards his wife Elrond asked, "How old are they?" hearing Elrond's question Severus stopped playing with the wooden horse and in a serious tone said, "I am Severus, and this is Sirius we are both 35 while Harry is 15." Satisfied that Elrond's question had been sufficiently answered Severus went back to playing with the wooden horse. Turning to Celebrian Elrond said "the Twins and Arwen were walking at this stage weren't they." Nodding Celebrian replied "yes they were maybe we should try to get harry to walk over to us." Nodding thoughtfully Elrond called out "Harry would you like some berries looking up Harry saw the red berries that Elrond was picking up out of a bowl on his desk and nodded." Beckoning harry over Elrond lowered his hand to Harry's level. Looking at the berries for a long moment harry frowned at how far away they were before putting the soft ball down and slowly standing up then picking the soft ball up and toddling over to Elrond. Pleased that his fears were for nothing Elrond pulled Harry onto his lap and let him eat the berries in his hand.
A couple hours later Lindir entered the study and said, "I have sent out the messengers and prepared a nursery across the hall from your family's private quarters and organised a rotation of elves to look after the young elfling's for the forceable future." Smiling Elrond thanked Lindir before saying "Celebrian it is getting late we should take the elfling's to the nursery." Sighing Celebrian picked up Sirius and Severus and followed Elrond and Lindir to the nursery.
Looking around the nursery Elrond was surprised to see that everything in the room was brand new and that each elfling had a section of the room marked out just for them in Red, Blue or Green. Giggling Harry pointed at the area marked out in blue while Sirius pointed to the red area and Severus wriggled out of Celebrian's arms and quickly ran to the green area. Chuckling lowly Lindir scooped Severus up and paced him on the green changing table were an elf began to change him into his new sleepwear while cooing at him as Lindir said "I suppose that saves us from trying to decide who goes were." Laughing Elrond as he passed Harry to an exited elf that immediately began to coo and tickle Harry's stomach with a look of awe as she laid him on the changing table. Turning Elrond saw that Celebrian had already handed Sirius over to another elf that again looked like he had just seen Valinor.
Settling down in Elrond's study Elrond. Celebrian and Lindor quickly placed the toys back in the chest before Elrond turned to Lindir and asked, "how long do you recon it will take all the kingdoms Elves, Men and Dwarfs to arrive?" pausing to check a scroll Lindir replied about seven and a half months but with the added challenge of finding Mithrandir I decided that the assembly of the free people should convene in eight months. Nodding Elrond poured the three of them a glass of Elven wine and in a humorous tone said, "what do you want to bet that Mithrandir will turn up either earlier than expected just because we put a time limit on it." Laughing Celebrian stood up and said, "anyone would be a fool to take you up on that bet Elrond." Then turned and left Elrond and Lindir to smirk as they drunk their wine.
The next morning Elrond awoke to the sound of voices whispering, "Should we wake Lord Elrond up as the youngest elfling hasn't stopped crying since he woke up this morning." Drowning out the rest of the conversation Elrond quickly pulled himself out of bed and changed into clean robes before opening the door to two blond elf's debating whether to wake up Lord Elrond or Lady Celebrian. Clearing his throat Elrond took pleasure in watching the elves jump in fright at the sight of him. Striding past the elves Elrond began to make his way to the nursery the faint sound of crying hanging in the air. When Elrond arrived at the nursery he was greeted by the sight of what looked like half of Imladris running around panicking like headless chickens. In a loud voice Elrond said, "anybody how is not assigned to the nursery today or not immediately necessary please leave now." Reluctantly the majority of the elf's present in the room left leaving three very flustered elves, two sleeping elfling's and a sobbing Harry. Raising an eyebrow at the sleeping elfling's Elrond made a note that they could probably sleep through anything. Turning to the elf rocking Harry Elrond asked "whatis wrong." Shaking her head desperately the elf replied "I don't know one moment they were all sleeping peacefully the next the little one was crying his eyes out. I've changed his nappy cloth, feeding him milk or fruits, burping him, rocking him and even singing to him but nothing seems to be working." Nodding Elrond scoped Harry out of her arms and said, "I was planning to give them a health check after breaking the fast, but it looks like the little one here is getting an earlier than planned trip to the healing hall's."
Leaving the three stressed out elves behind Elrond carried Harry to the healing halls and began an inspection of little Harry quickly weighting, measuring and testing Harry's strength before moving on to palpitating his stomach to check for any hardness. Satisfied that the elfling was adequately healthy if not a little under weight Elrond was puzzled to what was causing Harry to cry so much. Picking Harry up and rocking him Elrond asked, "What is wrong little one?" sniffing Harry looked up at Elrond with big watery emerald green eyes and said, "the pretty lady in trouble." Standing up a bit straighter Elrond asked, "who is the pretty lady?" blinking Harry frowned before saying "she has long white hair." Pausing Elrond made a list of all the female elves with long white hair that he could think of before realising that almost a third of the Noldor and even some of the Sindar had white blonde hair. Moving on to the next question Elrond asked Harry "what is her name and where was she?" Frowning Harry seemed to stare of into the distance before snapping back into the present and saying, "her name is Lainel the tall elf with branches on his head keeps saying her name, but she won't reply she is lying in at the base of a tower the ugly people that attacked the camp that Celebrian took us to pushed her of the tower before running away." Tears started to gather in Harry's eyes again quickly scooping Harry up again Elrond began rocking him in his arms as he asked, "what do the tree's look like Harry." Hiccupping harry replied "their tall and green with massive dark green leaves but the tree's next to the ruin are sickly and grey." Nodding Elrond pulled harry closer as he said, "don't worry we will save Lainel." continuing down to the training grounds were his sons were scheduled for some lessons with the older elf's.
Reaching the training grounds Elrond spotted the twins duelling against two of Imladris's more seasoned warriors. Spotting Lord Elrond holding harry while standing at the top of the staircase that lead to the training yard many of the elves stopped to look at the elfling. Summoning Elohir and Elladan over Elrond watched as they weaved their way through the elves all straining to see Harry leaning down Elrond whispered conspiratorially "Do you want to see them train?" nodding enthusiastically Harry looked down at the elves in the court yard as Elrond put on a very serious face then winked at Harry and said in a very solemn tone "now that we have three elfling's in Imladris we will need to train extra hard and be extra vigilant to protect them." The guards in the court yard jumped to attention yelling "Yes Lord Elrond!" Then got back to training even harder than before.
Once Elladan and Elohir reached Elrond the nodded and said "Father." Nodding back Elrond in a serious tone said, "My sons I am trusting you with a mission of the utmost importance." Standing straighter with pride Elladan and Elohir simultaneously said "What do you need us for Father." Pausing to adjust the squirming Harry Elrond said, "Little Harry here seems to have been given the gift of foresight and has seen the death of King Thranduil's wife Queen Lainel by the hands of Orc's at Dol Guldur." Elladan and Elohir shuddered before saying "we will grab our gear and healing supply's then be gone by the hour." Smiling Elrond watched his son's sprint of to grab their gear.