Make sure you've read the one before this, since I published it just last night.
Warning: There are a potentially hazardous number of W's in this chapter. Read at your own risk.
"Nana!"
Sky scooped the little elfling into her arms and squeezed him. "Hi, Legolas! Did you miss me?"
Legolas nodded and threw his chubby little arms around her neck, which was really the only part of her he could reach around right now. "Wegwas wike Nana," he announced.
"Aww. I like you too." She kissed his forehead, making him giggle. "Want to go say hi to everyone else?"
Legolas shrank down beneath her shoulder. "Evvwon ewse? Dey scawy."
"They're not scary," Sky disagreed, turning around to go back inside. "Why so shy, Leafling? They all love you very much."
"Scawy," Legolas repeated firmly.
"Hmm," Sky said thoughtfully. "Is Taen scary?" She turned Legolas around so he could see the advisor, who, sensing an elfling, had come to investigate.
"Taen!" Legolas cheered. Then he narrowed his large eyes, but only for a moment. "Taen no scawy," he concluded.
"Why, thank you, little prince," Taensirion said smiling as Sky handed him the elfling. "I try not to be scary."
"Sometimes you need to be scarier," the queen noted, thinking of the last time human diplomats had visited.
Taensirion chuckled and turned as another elf approached. "Is Lanthirel scary, Legolas?"
Legolas narrowed his eyes again to appraise Taensirion's wife. "Wanfiw...Wanthiwew... she no scawy," he decided.
"Well, we're now up to three people who aren't scary, including me," Sky summarized, holding out her arms for Legolas. "Taen, give my son back," she ordered when he pretended not to notice her. "GIVE."
The Sindar sighed. "Must I?" He reluctantly returned the elfling to his mother. Legolas seemed rather unhappy at their parting, as well.
Sky smiled at the Sindarin couple and moved on, across the hallway and into another room. "What about Felrion and Kilvara?"
"FEWWONKIWAVWA!" Legolas yelled, squirming until his mother put him down so he could run up to the healer and his wife. "Hi Kiwavwa! Hi Fewwon!"
"Hi, Legolas!" Kilvara picked him up and swung him around in a circle. "How are you? Are you having a good day?"
"Wots fwowers oudside," the young prince told her. It was springtime in Greenwood.
"What color flowers?" Felrion asked, grinning.
"Gween!"
The healer scratched his head. "Green flowers?" He eyed Sky as if wondering what she'd been teaching her son.
"Da weaves gween!" Legolas argued, sensing Felrion's disbelief. "Da fwowers bwue and puwpwe and wed and bwue!"
"He's still working on the L's," Sky explained.
Kilvara nodded in complete agreement.
"Wow," Felrion told Legolas. "Lots of colors!"
"Wots and wots cowers!"
Sky knelt down to elfling level. "So Legolas, are Felrion and Kilvara scary?"
Legolas's blue eyes narrowed once again. "...Fewwon and Kiwavwa no scawy," he admitted.
She winked at her friends as she picked Legolas up and carried him back out of the room.
"Bye Kiwavwa, bye Fewwon!" Legolas called over her shoulder.
They went on down the hallway, but only a little ways before Sky spotted some more friends out the window. She hopped through said portal and trotted out to a tree in which three elves were sitting.
"Hi Gawwon!" Legolas was yelling before they were halfway there. "Hi Cawwew! Hi Fiwif! Fiwif cwimb vewy good, Nana," he informed Sky. "Hi Gawwon! Hi Fiwif! Hi Gawwon!"
"Are they scary?" Sky whispered to Legolas as she climbed the tree, the elfling clinging to her neck.
"Gawwon not scawy!" Legolas protested, as if the very idea was preposterous. "Fiwif BOSSY, no scawy. Cawwew... maybe a wittew scawy." He thought about that for two seconds. "No, no scawy."
Sky smiled. "Hello," she greeted the other family.
"Hi Fiwif," Legolas said to the older elfling as his mother put him down on the older elfling's branch.
"Hello, Prince Legolas," Firith returned, reaching out to steady Legolas as the prince reached for an acorn.
"Good morning, Legolas!" Galion said, reaching over to brush a leaf out of the prince's hair. "Sky, did you and the king get that issue with the grain storage worked out?" As their butler, Galion heard about everything that happened to the royal couple.
"I think so," she sighed. "How it took three days is beyond me."
"And this is why I'm not a queen," said Caliel, putting a leaf in Legolas's hair.
"That used to be my line," Sky sighed. "Oh, well. See you all later." She picked up her son and started the climb down the tree.
"Bye Fiwif! Bye Cawwew! Bye Gawwon!" Legolas told them.
Back in the window they went, and down the hallway toward one particular door at the end.
"BOO!"
Sky shrieked and jumped back, clutching Legolas protectively. "Storm!"
"Stowm scawy!" Legolas announced, but then he patted his mother's hand. "But onwy for Nana. Wegwas see him befow he go BOO!"
"Mm-hmm?" Sky asked, glaring at her brother. "Storm needs to go jump in the river."
Legolas gasped and shook his head vigorously. "Wiver DANGEWOUS," he warned her. "Need stay FAW away!"
"Oh, right," Sky apologized, still eyeing her brother. "Can Nana throw Storm in some mud, then?"
"Dat no nice!" Legolas scolded.
"He's right, you know," Storm agreed, smirking at Sky. "Thanks, Legolas. Don't let Nana be mean to me."
"No mean," Legolas told his mother.
"Okay, okay, Nana will be nice." Sky stuck her tongue out at Storm and continued toward the door, mouthing "for now" over her shoulder. "So, Legolas, Storm isn't scary, is he?"
"No."
"Is Galion?"
"No."
"Caliel?"
"No! Or Fiwif or Fewwon or..." The little prince's face scrunched up as he tried to remember who else they'd seen.
"Or Kilvara or Taen or Lanthirel?"
"No. No scawy," Legolas agreed.
"That's right. And do you know who else isn't scary?"
Legolas pointed at the door in front of them.
"That's right." Sky put him down and opened the door. "Go get him."
"ADAAAAA!"
The rather bored elf working at the desk inside the room looked up upon hearing the war cry, and his face lit up as Legolas ran straight into his arms.
"I thought you might need a visit," Sky said, coming over to kiss him.
"Truly, you were correct," Thranduil told her gratefully. "Yes, Legolas?" The elfling was clearly getting impatient for his attention.
"We saw Stowm, Ada!" Legolas announced, bouncing up and down in his father's lap. "And Fewwon and Gawwon and Fiwif and Taen and Kiwavwa and Cawwew and Wan... Wanfiwew!"
"And who?" Thranduil asked his wife.
"Lanthirel."
"Ah."
Legolas was about to burst from excitement. "We saw EVVWON!"
Thranduil lifted his elfling to eye level. "Everyone?"
"Evvwon! And den we came see YOU, Ada!"
The Elvenking laughed softly. "Thank you, Legolas. I am glad you came to see me."
"I gwad too, Ada."