Epilogue: Home
"Where?* Mas?"
Winking, Legolas opened his eyes and was initially confused as to where he was.
"Ion nín?," he heard someone ask breathlessly.
He turned his head slightly and looked into his father's blue eyes. Only then did he realise that he was lying in his bed at home in Eryn Lasgalen. Thranduil sat at his bed and looked as if he had not left that chair for weeks. Not to speak of the weeping eyes.
"Ion nín! Cuiag!" With an exclamation of joy he wrapped his arms around Legolas and wept tears of joy. "I couldn't have borne it if you had really gone to Mandos," he whispered and covered his son's hair with a thousand kisses.
Legolas returned the hug just as happily. He was home again. He had really made it!
At that moment, the door to his bedroom flew open with a bang. "Legolas! Lad!" rumbled Gimli's all too familiar voice. "I can't believe it!"
He hurried to the other side of the bed, grabbed Legolas' hand and patted it as if to convince himself that Legolas was really sitting in front of him and not just a ghost.
"Your beard is all tousled, friend Gimli," Legolas teased.
"Hmph!", he said. "You would have pulled your hair out, too, if you just wanted to hunt some orcs with your friend and he suddenly seemed to be lying there dead. Tell me, how is it possible that you are now back among us? I thought you were dead! Even though your father has always maintained otherwise."
Legolas smiled and remembered all the wonderful moments with Eri. "It's a long story."
Mas? - Where?, Sindarin
Ion nín? - My son?, Sindarin
Ion nín! Cuiag! - My son! You're alive!, Sindarin
*The text is originally written in German. Legolas didn't say "wo" here ("where" translates to "wo" in German) but indeed the English "where" to indicate that he still speaks the English he learned and not Sindarin or Westron.
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