Chapter Seven

"Ai Elebereth!" Adara was startled awake by the elvish swear and multiple shouts. Shivering violently, she noticed that snow had melted under and on top of her in the middle of the night and she was soaking wet.

Teeth chattering, Adara got up to see what was happening, even though she had a pretty good idea.

Walking up next to Gimli, she gazed out in wonder at the scene before her. Snow, piles and piles of snow, almost as tall as her!

She let out a low whistle, "That's a lot of snow." The Fellowship looked at her like she was insane and she just shrugged.

"What?" she asked innocently.

"Well, looks like we can't go that route." Gandalf said while surveying the empty mountain side.

"Where do you propose we go then?" Boromir retorted.

Aragorn cleared his throat and started talking, "I had hoped it would not come to this, but there is another way."

Gandalf nodded, "We shall go through the Mines of Moria."

When Adara read the first book, she hadn't realized how literal Tolkien was when he said that the Fellowship did not take but tiny breaks on the way to Moria.

She wasn't dying as much as she had been the last few days, her body getting used to the abuse. But it still sucked.

Finally, they made it to the door. It was already dark and Adara figured that now was a good time for the other half of her cigarette.

She was shivering in the cold and the foreboding feeling she felt just being here.

She could here Gandalf saying words to the door and failing each time, she knew the password but she didn't think it was time to go in just yet.

She felt rather than saw Boromir pick up a rock, about to through it in the water. Remembering that it was the rock that woke the thing in the water she stopped him.

"Don't throw that rock." Boromir looked over at her confused.

"Why not?" he demanded. He didn't care that much about throwing the damned thing but this girl was just so cryptic when answering!

She whirled to face him, for some reason his answer angered her. "Because, if your booming voice hasn't already woken the beast, that rock surely will!" she snapped.

Boromir was too shocked to answer and let the rock fall to the ground. Adara took one last drag and dropped her cigarette and stepped on it.

She walked over to where Gandalf stood and interupted him, "Mellon."

The doors opened and the Company looked at her, "You knew?" Legolas asked.
"Of course I knew." she snorted and walked in after Gandalf. She didn't know why but this place put her on edge.

'Of course it puts you on edge! Not only is there a balrog here, but it also "kills" Gandalf. Not to mention all the orcs in this place."

Adara jumped when the doors slammed shut. "What was that?!" Pippin shouted.

Adara wondered why that happened, she had stopped Boromir from waking the thing. Unless it was already awake and just waiting for them to go through.

"It won't open." Gandalf said grimly.

"There's another way out though." Adara spoke up.

Gandalf looked up at her and nodded, "There is."

And they started walking. Everyone was exhausted from the running and walking and barely stopping all day to really notice where they were going and were really surprised when they came through a door way into a chamber-like room.

There was a giant hole in the middle and even though it freaked everybody out, they were too tired to care.

Except Pippin. Adara jumped when she heard a loud bang with several others following after it.

Everyone freaked out but Gandlaf who just got angrier when he realized Pippin had thrown a rock in the hole.

"Fool of a Took!" he shouted. Adara giggled at Gandalf berating the hobbit and lay down with the others when it was decided by Gandalf that Pippin's punishment would be to take first watch.

That night Adara didn't dream per say.

There was nothing but velvet blackness and a voice. A woman's voice, to be specific, and rough too. Not croaky but deeper than a woman's and higher than a man's, and just on the side of raspy.

Most of her word's were in a language Adara couldn't speak, but she vaguely identified it as elvish.

But then Adara could understand her. It wasn't a big moment, no shocked surprise at the fact that Adara understood the faceless voice, but one moment she couldn't understand her and the next she could.

"Adara. My lovely Adara. You've come home to me! Oh how I've missed you my Adara."

Adara woke up suddenly. For a second she was confused as to why she was on a cold, hard ground before she remembered: Moria.

That wasn't like the other two dreams, the other two no one talked to her. But this time, someone did, but who was it? She felt like she should know the voice and it was on the tip of her tongue but she could't quite get it.

Adara noticed that Pippin was still on duty so that meant that it was still really early and that she should probably go back to sleep.

Tomorrow would be a long day.


Author's Note:

Hey guys! I know this is really short but this week has been really hectic for me and I completely forgot to write this so I had to write it in like two hours! I am so sorry! I'll try and have an especially long chapter next Sunday for you guys! Again sorry and I hope you enjoy!