Chapter 10 A Shoulder, A Story, and No Solution
(Neville)
I saw bright lights through my eyelids. I couldn't tell, but it felt like I was most likely on an old mattress. I didn't bother questioning it I was just to tired still. I tried to turn over but as I moved my shoulder pain shot through my whole body. It was pain like I could never have imagined. I stopped immediately and knew that after that there was no possibility of going back to sleep. I opened my eyes slightly. That slight opening just had let in a lot of light and nothing else. I had started hearing whispers from familiar voices. Memories started rushing back as I heard them. A cave as there home, an unknown attacker, Luna crying, then blackness. My eyes shot open.
"Luna!" I shouted as my eyes scanned what could only be described as weird, yet amazing. There appeared to be a ceiling but feet high above. Everything was wooden and circular. The wall, floor, chairs and tables. Luna was sitting in a wooden chair with a book. Her face was turned staring at me with a distant concern upon it. Harry and Ginny sitting at a table with Lily between them all three had a look of worry on there faces as they looked over at me. The weirdest and most amazing thing thought was not all the wood and circles. The weirdest thing was that there was dozens of little men and women about a foot tall every where. They also were all looking at due to no doubt my recent scream. These 'people' had brown papery skin; the women had long, vibrant, and wavy hair while the men were bald but had long beard; they were also all wearing purple or blue dresses and robes.
"Are you okay master Longbottom?" one male 'person' asked me as he walked over.
"Neville its okay," Luna said as she sat the book down on a round wooden end table and glided over.
"What happened," I asked directing the question to the room at large and not to any one in particular.
"Well," Harry said as he walked over with Ginny slightly behind him with Lily in her arms like normal, "you remember the man that you had stunned and wiped his memory, right?"
"Yeah," I responded slowly.
"After that," Luna continued, "you came over to me."
"While you were over there," Ginny said, "Harry and I were examining the body of that death eater."
"We still aren't sure who it is," Harry picked up, "but another came in after that."
Luna said that, "Well he knocked you out and you were propelled backwards and knocked into the wall."
Ginny added, "Luna was stunned right after that."
"Ginny and I started to duel whoever he was and he fled after a while," Harry offered this tidbit.
"We were able to revive Luna, but we tried all we could to awake you. We thought that…" Ginny's voice trailed off.
"We had thought that you had died," Luna said normally, and despite this anxious situation I felt like smiling at Luna's confidence in uncomfortable situations.
"Anyway," Harry said trying to brush along, "We apperated to the Dean forest right next to this huge tree and we laid you down against it. Then this little man, Green Beard," Harry pointed to the little man at the edge of the mattress, "he asked what we were doing here. We weren't sure if we should trust him, but Ginny had already exclaimed out predicament to him. He said that he would help us because they were nature elves. Like house elves they loved to help humans, but they were enslaved to their trees instead of there families. Green Beard had led us into a tree. Gave us food and water and also beds. They also took you and tried to revive you. It didn't really work. You've been unconscious for three days now. We were getting worried."
A motherly elf came over to the bed side. "He needs his rest!" she said in a firm but squeaky voice, pushing Harry and Ginny away. Luna also got pushed away but she touched my arm and gave me a reassuring smile as she got pushed back into the chair. As the elf came back she introduced herself. "Hello Master Longbottom; I am Deldra. I will be your nurse," Deldra said.
"I really don't need anything it doesn't even hur-" I tries to convince her, but then she started wrapping my shoulder, with some strenflower and I had to hold my breath to keep from letting a shout escape me.
"Really now?" Deldra asked skeptically as she continued wrapping my shoulder. As she finished she took a small bottle out of her apron pocket. "Here take this," she exclaimed as she uncorked the bottle, "you'll be as good as new, better even in a day or so. As long as you rest," she reassured me.
"No I really have to," she pushed the liquid down my throat. Chocking and spluttering I gasped, "No its okay Deldra we have to leave now anyway. I'll be fine."
I went to getup, but she pushed me back down with surprising force for someone so small and old.
"Well you can't, and you won't leave her until tomorrow when your not broken anymore," she glared and me firing right up.
"How will we solve, solve-" I tried to think of the right word without giving a thing away "how will we find a solution to our little problem!!" I retaliated some-what lamely.
"Well if your problem is so little it can wait a day," I groaned and she glared at me, "and don't give me any of that c!#$," Deldra yelled as she scowled at me and walked away.
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