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Chapter 14
The Elf
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"Are you all right?" Bilbo asked me. He had come over to me as we sat on the riverbank. We had stopped at a river that was right nearby where the eagles had left us. We were here washing away the blood and resting tills the long walk towards the Elven realm. I looked at Bilbo. "You´ve been looking at Thorin for a while now." Oh? I saw he was talking to Bofur and Fíli.
"I am fine, thank you for asking," I said.
"How did you become family of Thorin? You´re not a Dwarf," he asked and I had to smile. But it took me a while before I answered.
"Thorin took me in when I had no others," I said to the Hobbit. "My parents died and I ended up with a family in Gondor. They did not threat me well, and then Thorin came and I came with him to the Blue Mountains." It was quiet between us. Gandalf told us we are going to see meet a friend of his; he was living close to the Elven realm. There we could get a good night sleep, food and rest. We all agreed on that and then we continued walking again. It was many hills between here and the Elven realm. We walked for hours and when the sun was at the highest we stopped and rest.
I walked a bit away, through few trees and bushes to do my thing what I barely needed when I heard someone behind me. I stood up as I turned and saw a small girl in filthy clothes. She looked scared, as she was hugging her doll. She looked so poor and very thin. She had dark long hair and no shoes on. She looked at something behind me, so I turned and saw a man suddenly stand before me. He smiled to me and then I felt something heavy knock me out in the darkness.
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I opened my eyes slowly with a slight headache and saw I was in a cell. What happened? I turned to my side and saw a window near the floor and a door on the other side of the cell. It had a small window in it. I looked at the window near the floor when I saw something moved on the other side. I crawled towards it and saw a man sitting in a cell, far from me.
"Where am I?" I asked. The man turned his head a bit and then I saw he was an Elf. "You´re an Elf!" I said shocked and he nodded. What did happen? It was this girl… And then this man… I touched my head, not feeling any better. I then turned on my back and leaned against the wall. Where am I? Oh no… The Dwarves! I turned again to the Elf in the other cell. "Do you know if there were any other who came here with me?" I asked.
"No, only you," the Elf said. I nodded and turn around again. I looked around; it was only a door and this window, nothing else. "Where do you come from?" He asked me. I cannot say I come with Dwarves or that Thorin himself raised me since I was a young girl. He was the one who took me in when they who was suppose to raise me failed bad. Well, I could say some of the truth.
"Rivendell," I said to him.
"You know the Elves there?" The Elf asked me. He was very calm for being captured here.
"Not really, but I´ve talked to Lord Elrond," I said. "Where am I?" I asked.
"A village, not far from my land, the Greenwood Realm. The men here are torturing Elves to become Orcs and sell them," he said. I looked with widened eyes into nothing. Torture? "They take Elves one by one. I am only waiting for my turn. I hear my fellow kin scream at night." I shivered.
"I am not an Elf," I said.
"No, you´re not. But they might need you, let you work for them or even sell you. I suggest you to do what they want, you cannot escape this by yourself," he said to me. I sighed… I do not like this at all. How can Thorin help me out of here? No… Thorin will come and Fíli and Kili. None of them would abandon me. I looked up at the ceiling and then I stood up and walked over to the door. I peeked through the window and saw a small hallway. But there was no one there. I walked back to the other side.
"What does a girl like you doing so close to here?" The Elf asked me. I sat down near the window again.
"I am a Dunedain," I said. "A Ranger," I lied.
"Don´t lie to an Elf," he said. "But you are a Dunedain?" He asked.
"Yes, it may not look like it, but my mother was," I said. Why am I giving this information to a stranger? Then the door opened and the man I saw earlier came in with two guards. I stood up to, afraid of doing anything else. "Who are you?" I asked.
"Do as we say and it might get easy for you," the man said and the two guards grabbed me. I tried to resist but they pushed me out, hearing my cell door close hard.