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~Translation from Elven to English: :
*Mela en' coiamin "My love"
*Erulissë, "Fairest Elven child"
*Ada "Elven word for father."
*Vanlanthiriel "Beautiful waterfall."
*Vandui "Greetings."
*Elen sila lumenn omentilmo "A star shall shine on the hour of our meeting"
"Not bad, considering that it is much closer to the bull's-eye this time." Haldir congratulated Amy after she had finally managed to get her arrow to finally land on the target board. Amy rolled her eyes as she let out a frustrated breath before stringing another arrow upon her bow.
"But not good enough, Haldir." She replied tightly. She pulled back her string and let the arrow fly. It hit closer to the original arrow, but still not quite making its intended mark. Amy groaned out loud and threw down her bow on the ground before stalking off to the patio for a drink of cold ice tea.
Haldir chuckled while he pulled the arrows out and placed them back into the quiver. "With those kind of shots, you will most likely take them out by the neck."
Amy ignored his comment, taking a long sip of her drink before collapsing onto a patio chair with a relived sigh. Staring down disdainfully at her redden hands, she frowned at the markings indented in her skin from the taunt bow string. "Damn." She muttered to herself while flexing her fingers several times. Two full days of bow training and she still hand't been able to fully acclimated herself and her body to wieldin g such a unusual weapon. If she had her own way, she would have preferred to take a Tommy gun or perhaps even a magnum gun to those nasty Orcs, then rather use the bow and arrow as a way to take them down.
Then again, they had iron armor for protection, so it would be a long shot if the bullets were ever able to penetrate their armor after the first shot. Amy finished her drink and poured herself another glass before settling back further into her seat. She dimly heard the sliding screen door the the house open up as she shut her eyes for a moment.
"Vandui, Haldir." A familliar voice greeted nearest to her.
"Vandui, Erynion." Haldir replied with a bow as he laid a hand over his heart. "Elen sila lumenn omentilmo"
Erynion bowed his head before turning to his daughter, who had now opened her eyes upon hearing more of the beautiful words being spoken upon curiosity between the two elves. He smiled down at her as he went over and placed a small kiss upon her brow before touching her cheek for a moment. " Cormamin lindua ele lle, Erulissë."
"What does that mean, Ada?"
"It means in the elven tongue of our people, my daughter," Erynion replied as he sat down on the chair next to her. "My heart sings to see thee."
Haldir slowly mounted the steps leading up the patio and poured himself a drink. "You know, Erynion." He commented casually. "I think it is time that she is to be taught our language since she has you for a father," He pointed with his filled glass to the other elf. "And me fore a husband. Not to mention that the others in the house, save for Jessie, are rather fluent."
"Oh, will you please teach me how to speak and read?" Amy eagerly turned wide eyes upon her father. Erynion grimaced slightly at the daunting task of teaching his child how to learn all the communications of elvish language. Its not that he didn't want to teach her, its just that for a mere half mortal child with elven blood running through her veins, such a task would not have been hard if only her mother had allowed her to know the truth early on in her life or, had allowed him to be a part of it.
Teaching his little one would be no problem if she had already spoken it since the time she could start talking, but teaching her after so many years? It was going to be a long road unless she was quick to pick up words as the come and incorporate them into her normal daily life.
"Um, I don't think I would be a suitable teacher, Erulissë." Erynion slowly, patting her arm. Amy's mouth turned down in disappointment. He looked up at Haldir for help but all he got was a slight elven shrug of his shoulders as he focused on finishing his drink. "Well, then again, I don't what the big issue is." He smiled brightly on a lighter note.
"Thank you, Ada!" Amy cried. She happily threw her arms around his neck as she hugged him tightly. "I promise I'll be the best student you ever had!"
"I have no little doubt about that one, Amy." Haldir said with a small chuckle. "But I will say this as a warning, you will probably get a headache after a few rounds of trying to pronounce a few sentences together."
"It can't be all that bad." Amy wondered out loud. Erynion did his best to hide his mirth under a stern face as she looked between him and her life mate."Can it?" She asked after a minute of long silence.
"It would depend on how you take the rapid method of teaching you how to speak elven." Alexandria explained while coming outside to join them. "It took me four full months to finally be able to speak fluently." She raised an eyebrow. "But the learning part was more stress full then anything since they spoke in different tongue of their other kinsmen from the other elven realms."
Erynion's face seemed to harden for a moment before he calmly stood up from his seat. "Well this wouldn't have happened if only you had perhaps taught her a little bit about her other self." He said in a seething voice. Without waiting for Alexandria's response, he quickly excused himself to go back inside, leaving her and the others to stare back at him.
Haldir was the first to break the deathly silence by setting down his cup loudly on the table. Looking directly at Amy, he smiled slightly upon her with a raised finger. "I will teach you for your first elven sentence."
"And what is that?"
"Malia ten'vasa?"
Amy frowned. "And what does that mean?"
"It means," He gently chucked her chin with a finger. " Care for some food?"
Her confused cleared instantly. She jumped to her feet and grabbed his hand. "OK! "
Alexandria watched the couple hurry inside for the mid-day meal with a pang of envy in her heart. How evermore had she wished for such happiness to be in her life but could not even really obtain since deep down, she carried such a horrible secret that left a burning mark upon her soul and body. Alexandria's eyes fell upon the forgotten bow and quiver that lay on the table beside her.
She timidly lifted a hand and laid it upon the smooth silver wood for a brief moment before taking an arrow from the quiver and stringing it. She walked over to the edge of the patio and lifted the bow at eye level towards the practice target. Her hands didn't tremble as she calmly pulled the bow string all the way back before letting it go a second later. The arrow whistled in the air as it flew and hit bull eye head on, embedding itself deeply into the wood.
"Seems that you haven't lost your touch with the bow, Alexandria."
She turned her head to find Erynion standing by the doorway, his elven eyes not betraying any thoughts that he may be thinking at the current moment. He slowly walked back outside. "You were on of the best among my people with a bow, considering that you are a mortal."
Alexandria carefully placed the bow back in its place on the table before turning cool doe eyes upon him. "And what may I ask why you are here?"
Erynion didn't bother to take note of the slight aggressive edge in her voice. "Lle wethrine amin (You deceived me)"
"Amin delotha lle. ( I hate you.)" She hissed at him.
"You only hate what has happened to your life since my return, Alex." He corrected with with a soft snort. "Why should you even hate me if all I did was make the right choice in putting myself in my own daughter's life as it rightfully should be? If anything, I can personally say openly to you that Amin feuya ten' lle. ( You disgust me) "
Alexandria's back stiffened at the unexpected elven insult. Her eyes pricked with hurt tears but being prideful of herself, she refused to allow them to fall as she faced him for the first time with a feeling of both dread and anger. Why she was angry at him? Well, she could correct everyone and say that she was more angry at herself to sabotaging a potential future that would have been filled with tender love and happiness. But, she denied herself that simple prospect by hurting him, hurting herself, and most of all, hurting her...no, their own daughter of having the pleasure of having a loving father in her life who would protect her beyond the veils of the worlds between them.
Erynion allowed his emotions within him to surface a little as the stinging pain in his heart refused to subside. As long as he could help guide and teach his daughter the ways of his people and spend as much quality time as her father as much as possible, he didn't' care that he had to go through the very doors of Mordor in order to do so. His lips curled into a smirk. "I thought as much. Don't think that you and I will be ever getting back together unless you are willing to face your darkest fear and require all the hate and bitter memories of the past behind you once and for all."
"What gives you a right to say that to me, Erynion?' She snapped with a angry flash in her eyes. Erynion felt his head start to ach as a deep rooted anger arose in his heart. Not caring if anyone in the house saw or heard, he quickly crossed the distance between them and pushed her into the patio railing with one hand holding her face and the other trapping her between him and the back rail behind her.
"I am saying it as your only husband, Alexandria, or shall I call you by the elven name that I had chosen for you after our completed bonding? Vanadessë, the compassionate one." A hard laugh rose from his chest as Alexandria remained perfectly still. Only her eyes betrayed a look of both hurt and fear within them. "You are no longer compassionate with that black heart of yours, mortal woman. And you have proven it time and time again with your own unfaithfulness by marrying a mortal man so you can replace my very presence in this world and then going so far as lying to our own daughter all her life while you continue to live your own fucken lie."
She began to tremble under the darkening stare of her life mate. It was very rare that one would be brave enough to face his anger as such head on as she was, but the fact that Amy was inside right now, was the only thing that was keeping him from losing his tight control over his growing temper and showing his true power that was the rivaling of the Lady Galadriel herself.
"Do you know what we elves say to those who become traitors in our lands?" Eyrnion whispered in her ear. Alex could feel the rail under her shake with her now open trembling. She tried to speak but she found no voice to reply to him. " Then let me put it very simply in our elven tongue since you are very well taught." His hand around her face tighten for a brief moment as he leaned into her and whispered the words that would break her forever from that point on.
"Súlon gwanna nîf lín ni Hû ú-gaun. (Much wind pours from your mouth, you cowardly dog.)" With that said, Erynion let her go and headed back inside to get his car keys. Amy looked up from her lunch with a smile, but it faltered as she caught the dark look of pure anger in his eyes and face as he passed by.
"Ada?"
Erynion stopped and turned towards her with a frown before he quickly came over to kiss her goodbye on the forehead. "I am sorry that I cannot stay to teach you elven, Erulissë. But something came up and Ada has to go and take care of it."
Amy grabbed his hand as he started to walk away. "Ada, whats wrong? Is it mother?"
Alexandria came through the back door and quietly looked at the both, her mouth set in a thin line as she tried to remain calm under the steel gaze he shot at her. Erynion hugged his daughter close while he stared over her head at the mother. Haldir, sensing the atmosphere change in the room, grew concern as he looked back and forth at the estranged couple.
"I have to get going now." Erynion finally said. He abruptly left them and slammed the front door on his way out. Amy bite her lip and pushed away her meal, not wanting to eat anymore after seeing the inner turmoil in her Ada's eyes. She shot her mother a death glare that showed what she was thinking before running up to her room, a sob breaking through her throat.
The dead silence fell upon the room once more. It was so thick that Haldir could have slice through it with his sword without any issue and it would still be there.
"So, I see that you and Erynion are not working things out at all." He noted while taking a bit of his sandwich. Alex didn't say anything to defend herself. She only crossed her arms over her chest and glared out the screen door with an impassive face. "If you don't fix the wrongs of whatever it was you did between him and you, if you don't mind me being blunt for once." Haldir continued. "You will lose Amy in more ways then one in the end before the bitterness completely consumes your heart and there is no turning back to fix your wrongs."
"I think I will go back outside and shoot some targets, if you don't mind me, master elf." She replied sharply. The screen door slammed shut and Haldir let out a breath before finishing up his meal. By the looks of how everyone had been since Erynion's arrival, nothing had been worked on relationship wise between him and Amy's mother. It seemed whenever she saw Erynion praise or show open affection to his daughter, Haldir could read the deep rooted anger and hurt in her heart.
It was just a matter of time before she would eventually snap under the pressure of her own sins and hidden past.
He went over to the door and watch the older mortal woman shot arrows at the target dummy, his young face sadden by the family drama that was unfolding right before his very eyes between his family-in-laws and the young woman he loved upstairs.
If only Lady Galadriel and her wise husband was here to help them through this hard times, perhaps his life would be a little more easier to breath around here.
HI guys, Ladystarlet09 here!
So, the family drama has started and the tension between father and mother grows ever so more tense as they try to work their own demons. Amy is now torn between her loving elven father and her controlling, overprotective mother. Will she be strong enough to handle both of her parents as she learned more about the world that she had once thought was only fantasy?
And will Erynion break Alexandria break down enough to face the unknown dark secret she has kept harbored deep in her own mind before it is too late?
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