Piper paced the length of her room. She couldn't sit still. Her body was as restless as her mind. She paced for hours. The sun was high in the sky when Piper heard a knock on her door. She ignored it. Piper continued to pace. She didn't want to talk to anyone. The thoughts in her head were louder than any words anyone could speak. She had to decide if she was going back to Hogwarts. The wizarding world was on the brink of war. It was like a stack of unstable children's blocks. One wrong move, on breath and it would come crashing down on top of them. In Mirkwood, there were whispers of orcs on the edge of the forests. Her father had been sending scouts in groups of two or three to investigate. There had been signs of orcs. There were bones from animals, burnt logs from a crudely made fire. However, there were not sightings of an orc. Her father never said so but it made him nervous. Not knowing how to protect his people and his family always had.
Piper heard the knock again. It yanked Piper out of her head. She stopped pacing and turned to face the door. She said and did nothing. She starred and waited. Piper hopped that her silence would send whoever it was away. It didn't.
Piper heard her brother's voice saying, "Piper, open the door." Then, silence. Piper sat on her bead and started writing. She acted as if she had been doing her homework all day. Piper then said, "Come in."
Legolas walked in and sat across from her on her bed. Piper refused to look up. She loved her brother and was close to him. She was probably closer to him than anyone in their family, but she wanted to be left alone in her whirlpool of thoughts. Legolas didn't leave as Piper knew he wouldn't.
Legolas then too took her homework away from her gently. Piper glared at him and made him sit in silence. All Piper could think was, why did my brother have to care so much? It would make Piper's decision easier if someone would just stop caring. If Piper didn't have a few friends that loved her so much, if she didn't her classes. If Mirkwood wasn't so beautiful, if she wasn't so close to her brother than maybe Piper would be able to make a decision. That was all she could think. Legolas put Piper's homework onto the ground and smiled at her. "I know what you're thinking. You don't have to choose one or the other. You could be an ambassador."
Piper shook her head and whispered, "Father would never allow it." Legolas stood up and kissed piper on top of her head. "Stranger things have happened." Legolas then left Piper sitting alone on her bead. Be an ambassador to the wizarding world, what an absurd idea. There had never been an ambassador to the wizarding world. Piper stood up and walked to her window. She looked down. The wall was covered in thick green vines. It had been that way as far as anyone could remember. Piper climbed onto her windowsill and began to climb down the wall. No one would notice her absence, not if she was only gone for a few hours.
Unknown to her, Thandruil had caught a glimpse of her climbing down her wall from a small window. He watched as she began to run. Thandriul knew that Piper would be back. She always ran when her head was full of thoughts. Thandriul knew she would be back but the worry didn't leave his heart. He was worried about his daugher, the halfbreed.