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~Translation from Elven to English: :
*Mela en' coiamin "My love"
*Erulissë, "Fairest Elven child"
*Vanlanthiriel "Beautiful waterfall."
*Vandui "Greetings."
~Ladystarlet09 here, I am glad that you readers are greatly enjoying the updates of The Gift of Love. Keep reviewing and reading as always! Sorry that I have been taking so long in updating. Been very, very busy with college and getting my homework done on time. Here is the newest update. Hope you like this one.
"I can't believe that we are getting all of this, mother." Mary said with wide eyes as they walked down a aisle at the local target store. "And this isn't even mine stuff to begin with!"
Laura tossed several pairs of socks into her over filled cart with a small snort. "Do you have a problem, my child?" She asked briskly. "Because I would like to put in a way that its necessitates that your best friend will be needed in the near future when she feel like needing something familiar and normal to wear." She finished with a dark glare at her daughter.
Mary's face colored with embarrassment. "Of course not, mom. But don't you think that perhaps this is a tiny bit too much?"
"Not even. Wait until you start missing your own things here in this world and tell me how it went for you when you come back home."
Mary didn't need to be warned further as she fell silent. Things back at the house had seemed to jump to a level of high tensions between Alex and her daughter. And if it wasn't directed towards her, it was directed towards everyone else, despite her slightly cold, yet polite demeanor. Even Erynion could't bear it for more than perhaps an hour within his daughter's presence before he would excuse himself and say that he had work to take care of at the hotel he was staying at.
Mary would often wonder in her mind if Haldir had never shown up that fateful night, how would things be as of now? Would everything be normal for only the Valar would know how long before something else started to happen?
"Nana?" Mary said softly as she continued to push the laden cart behind her tall mother. "Can I ask you a question?"
"Anything you want, child."
"Why does Amy's mom act so strangely now? Did something happen between the two of you that you can't seem to resolve anything and she ends up taking it out on everyone?"
Laura paused in the act of picking up a leather jacket from a winter rack. She eyed her daughter with an expressionless face. "Why do you ask such a question?"
With a slight shrug, Mary made a slight face. "Because, its very obvious that she is always in a pissed off state since master Erynion stepped in the picture. I don't even think she even wanted him to be in Amy's life in the first place."
Her mother stared at her for a full moment with the all-too-familiar piercing look that Mary dreaded seeing every time she would get into trouble with her. "Well, perhaps I put it the wrong way, mom." She re-stated defensively. "Perhaps she is just being harsh on everyone then and is scared deep down."
"For all that I know, Mary." Laura replied as she came up to stand next to her. "I don't know what is going on in Alex's mind as of late. All that I do know that anything that you hear or see when she is the presence of Erynion, is none of your business or mine. Do you fully understand me?" She shook a finger under Mary's nose.
Satisfied once her daughter silently nodded her head quickly, she straighten up to her full height. "All that I ask of you right now, is to protect and watch over your best friend, no matter what happens to anyone of us. It's an honorable duty that shouldn't be all that hard for you to do and you two will be able to be together as friends until the time comes that either you come back home here, or perhaps chose to go into the west if Middle Earth wins the war against the Dark Lord and the one ring is forever destroyed."
"What about perhaps sending them to Lord Elrond in Rivendell, instead of the Golden woods? It would be a good way to prevent the future that Amy saw in her dreams from coming true."
"You are one to change one topic to the other, Mary." Laura murmured with a dismal shake of her head as she pushed the cart forward. "I will consult with Eryion on that suggestion, but if I were to guess correctly, even if we did send them to Rivendell first, eventually, our people's home will soon call out to Amy and she will have no other choice but to travel to them. Now, enough of this talk. I have gotten everything, if not most of what Amy will need clothing wise. Why don't you get another cart and we shall see what we can get for you, my child."
Mary could barely suppress a moan as she did as she was told by her mother. If anything, she would prefer traveling light, but such is not the case when you have a mother who is very rich and can afford the whole store if she wanted to. It looked like they wouldn't be checking out anytime soon anyway before dinner time came around if she kept this pace up.
"Mary! Hurry up! We don 't have all day!" Laura called to her from the aisle she was going down in.
"Yes, mother!" Mary yelled back as she speed walked towards the cart area. "I'm getting it right now!"
Laura's phone buzzed as she waited for her daughter to catch up with her. Looking at the caller ID, she picked it up immediately. "Yes, sister?" She answered.
A loud constant clanging noise could be heard in the background, along with many deep dwarfish cursing and what sounded like something hitting something very hard with a stick. "What is going one back there?" Laura asked as she held the phone a little away from her ear.
"Oh, do get home soon. Throbbie got into his head to have a sparing match with his kin and Haldir and now they are turning the whole backyard upside down!" Gaerien moaned. "How much longer are you going to take before Alex decides to kill me for allowing them to ruin her garden?"
"Well, it depends on how fast Mary can come back her with a cart for her clothes and how fast I check out. I am sure you will be fine. Just make sure that the boys don't take inside the house. Then you will be really wishing you were back home, far away from Alex and her...inhumanly rage, I should say." Laura laughed. "I'll try to finish up here as soon as possible and then we can go home for the night and rest."
"You better keep your promise or else you will be seeing all that hair turn to pink." Gaerien grumbled before she hung up the line. Luara put away her phone and smiled brightly when she caught sight of her daughter hurrying through the crowd with a empty cart. "Finally! I was beginning to wonder if Orcs had taken you away from here." She joked as she motioned for her daughter to follow from behind.
"Yeah, Yeah." Mary said with a roll of her eyes. "Lets just get this done and over with while I am still in a good mood."
Her mother snorted unladylike, but didn't bother to reprimand her as they continued with their huge shopping spree. Once they got home and picked up her sister from Amy's house, the only problem that they would have to deal with, is figuring out where everything was going and how they were going to packed for the journey homeward before they to the next step of planning when Erynion was going to send them to Middle Earth.
"My lady?"
Looking up from a book she had been reading, Galadriel found one of her handmaidens standing at her office doorway with a small scroll. The handmaiden bowed her head as she was allowed inside and presented it to her.
"A message from Lord Elrond. His messenger only said that this was to be given to you and for only your eyes to see." She explained as Galadriel accepted it from her.
"Thank you, Finera. You may leave me now." The lady of light smiled softly. The handmaiden smiled back and quickly withdrew to give her lady her privacy. Looking down at the neatly tied scroll, she wondered what would have her son-in-law send such a message in a fashion. The last time such a thing had taken place, was when they had been given word of the last surviving heir of Isildur had been taken to Rivendell for safekeeping after his parents had been violently killed by a vicious orc raid upon their village.
She carefully untied the red bow and opened the scroll to read what was inside. A few moments later, the scroll was dropped to the wooden floor as Galadriel rushed from her office in search of her husband. '
"CELEBORN!" She called out, using the full force of her voice to emphasis her urgency. "Celeborn! Where are you?"
The tall lord appeared suddenly from one of the rooms that they use for visitors who were in need of his wise council. Seeing the shocked look on his wife's face, the elf rushed to her side with worry suddenly darkening his fair face. "What is it, my love? Are you hurt in anyway?"
"Erynion is alive!" She breathed as she clutched both of his hands in hers. "He is alive and has made contact with Elrond as of this very day. He urges us to quickly have some of our best soldiers travel to Rivendell as soon as we receive word from him so to help guide his daughter and Haldir back home. Valar! I can't believe that this whole time, I had give up that he had managed to survive that battle between him and those wargs."
"Are you sure that it was from our son-in-law, my beloved?" Celeborn asked her, still very much wary. "Even the enemy's words can be as fair as his when it comes to expanding his power over the lands of Middle Earth."
"It is Elrond, I know his unique handwriting anywhere. Come see for yourself." Galadriel pulled her husband behind her as she hurried back into her office. Picking up the fallen scroll, she presented it to him with a wide smile. "See?"
Celeborn took it from her and read it carefully for several moments before a small smile crossed his own lips. "I believe you then, my love. Thank the Valar and any whom may also take pity on your beloved march warden that he had survived his scars and is alive and well." He glanced down at the letter. "And strangely, I didn't know that he had a daughter as well."
"I was just as surprised as you are when I read that." Galadriel agreed with a nod of her head. "He said that her name is Erulissë and she will be in the company of Haldir and a few other traveling companions who happened to have fallen into their world somehow."
"It doesn't say when the company would be coming thought, love." Celeborn said softly as he tilted the letter into the soft glow of the fireplace. "Just to wait for word of their coming is all it is written. Other then that, it seems that life must go on until then." He looked up at his wife as he rolled up the letter.
Galadriel walked over to the high balcony that overlooked the many talans and elven lights of the city down far below. Leaning her hands upon the white wood, she stared up at the night sky that could be seen through the golden trees for a moment, lost in deep thought as she remembered her first favorite march warden's undying loyalty to both her and their people.
"I would have never dreamed that not one, but two march wardens would finally be able to return home where they belong until it is time for us to fade into the west, Celeborn." She spoke up after remembering that she wasn't alone in the room. Celeborn went and stood by her side, caressing the soft gold strands of hair between his slender fingers.
Smiling upon her when she regarded him with her blue eyes, he bent his head and silently kissed her deeply in answer as small, friendly night birds took up a song and sang it to the night sky above. He only lived for her happiness and if seeing Erynion return to them finally, along side of Haldir would add to that, then he would remain content as he continued to stand by her side until the very end of time.
It was just a mere matter of time before Elrond would send word to them of the two march warden's arrival back to the world of where they truely belong.