Title: Journal Entry
Author: Elelome (elelome@yahoo.com)
Note: Sorry about the long delay. I've had lots of stuff happen lately. :-)
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"I feel so alone," she wrote. "All my friends are finding their mates and pairing off this spring. My dear friend Enata found her childhood love of Halrand returned today. She came to me laughing at her unwitting discovery. She had overheard a conversation about herself, in which Halrand had confessed his love for her."
Arwen laid the feathered quill down and placed her hands over her eyes, blocking out the last light of the sunset. She sighed, quietly. Was there never to be anyone who would love her, as Enata loved Halrand, as he loved her in return? Would she be ever the elf-maiden who did not marry?
She drew her hands away from her eyes and picked up the pen again.
"Is love everything?" she wrote. "Is finding a mate to be the sole goal of a elf's life, or are there other pleasures to be found? The books say that marriage is not required to be happy, but sometimes I doubt it."
She shook her head, laying down the pen.
"Sometimes this endless round of ceremonies seems so useless," she whispered to the night sky. "Since mother left, nothing has been the same."
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Author: Elelome (elelome@yahoo.com)
Note: Sorry about the long delay. I've had lots of stuff happen lately. :-)
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"I feel so alone," she wrote. "All my friends are finding their mates and pairing off this spring. My dear friend Enata found her childhood love of Halrand returned today. She came to me laughing at her unwitting discovery. She had overheard a conversation about herself, in which Halrand had confessed his love for her."
Arwen laid the feathered quill down and placed her hands over her eyes, blocking out the last light of the sunset. She sighed, quietly. Was there never to be anyone who would love her, as Enata loved Halrand, as he loved her in return? Would she be ever the elf-maiden who did not marry?
She drew her hands away from her eyes and picked up the pen again.
"Is love everything?" she wrote. "Is finding a mate to be the sole goal of a elf's life, or are there other pleasures to be found? The books say that marriage is not required to be happy, but sometimes I doubt it."
She shook her head, laying down the pen.
"Sometimes this endless round of ceremonies seems so useless," she whispered to the night sky. "Since mother left, nothing has been the same."
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