Chapter 4 – Exploring New Things… and getting Lost
After dinner they were led to the bedroom they would share and even though the sun had yet to set, they felt extremely tired. Apparently time/world-traveling consumes your body's energy.
"Finally we can talk! I was afraid that the elf-queen would get inside my head. Creepy." Philipa shuddered.
"I know right? She told me things about the future!" Inez said.
"What things?"
"Well…no biggie. If we fail we die." She shrugged as if it really was nothing of importance.
"Oh bugger." They stood in silence for a few minutes.
"I'm tired."
"Me too."
"Let's sleep then." Philipa suggested.
"But we haven't met the fellowship yet…" Marta frowned.
"..and your point is? You heard the 'Laady of Light', they'll be here tomorrow and the next day.. and the day afterwards." At her friend's expression Philipa continued."You don't have to meet them tonight. They're not going anywhere so you can see them tomorrow. After we rest."
"You're probably right."
"As always."
They laid down and after saying their good nights much to their surprises they quickly fell asleep.
When they woke up the sun was already shining outside and after a few yawns and complaints about being thrown into a different world they finally sat up.
"Oh well… let's go out and explore." Philipa said suddenly.
"What if we get lost?" Marta asked feeling unsure, as far as they knew they could go the wrong way and orcs could find them and kill them or worse: torture them.
"We won't. You know this place."
"Actually, I don't."
"Sure you do." Philipa insisted.
"Great… our lives depend on my knowledge of Lothlórien." which is close to nothing.
"Yep!" Inez exclaimed happily.
"We're so dead." Marta muttered to herself and covered her face with a pillow.
"Come on, I don't want to stay closed in this room all day.. And I want to see the fellowship! Weren't you the one who was ecstatic to meet them?"
"Alright, alright."
They got up to get changed into their own clothes - last night they changed into the night gowns that had been left for them - but they were nowhere to be found. However, in the place where their clothes had been there were three long dresses.
"You've got to be shitting me. I'm so not going to wear that." Marta objected.
"Oh come on it's only a dress.. and they're actually cute." Inez tried to change her mind. Meanwhile Philipa was already grabbing the light blue dress for herself.
"I'm not wearing that thing." Marta insisted.
Ten minutes later..
"Ugh.. I can't believe I'm wearing this." Marta muttered as the three girls were examining themselves on the great mirror that they had in their bedroom.
"Shut up, you know you actually like it. Now let's go." Philipa pointed out the truth and then they finally left their bedroom.
They had been wandering in the forest for one hour and so far they had crossed their paths with a few elves but they had seen no signs of the fellowship yet.
"I'm hungry." Inez said out of the blue.
"Now that you speak of it, I'm hungry too. We should have had breakfast." Philipa grabbed her stomach frowning.
"I need to pee." Marta blurted out.
"Well, let's go back. They must have bathrooms in this place." Philipa looked at her friends."Right?"
They turned around to go back but they had no idea which way they had come, everything looked the same. Trees, trees and more trees.
"Which way now?"
"No idea. I guess we'll just have to use our instinct."
"Our instinct! Well, I think we should go this away." Inez pointed to their right.
"No, we definitely came that way." Philipa pointed to the left.
"Guys, I think you're both wrong. I have a feeling that we should keep going ahead."Marta said.
"Fine. You're the expert after all."
"Yeah… I just hope you're right."
20 minutes later…
"I can't believe this! We've been walking around circles for ages and there are no signs of civilization anywhere." Philipa complained glaring at Marta.
"What? Are you implying that this is my fault? Awesome, just awesome…"
"If you keep bickering then we won't find anything for certain."
"My ladies…" Someone said from behind them.
The girls turned around startled.
"Holy shit!"
"OhMyGod."
A/N:I just realized how short these chapters are but I promise that they'll get longer!
Update: chapter updated
