A/N: Um…I never thought about writing a second chapter, but here it is! Hope you like it, and…um…there are still a some elements from 'the Silmarillion' in it ^^;

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"Where have you been?!" Nèniel's father exclaimed. "We've waited for over an hour!"

Nèniel just stood there, her eyes was unfocused, like she was looking at something far away.

"Daddy?" Alwen looked up at her father with her big, brown eyes, "are we going to the ship now?"

The sound of her little sister's voice made Nèniel snap out of her thoughts, and back to the real world.

"I am sorry," she said solemnly, "I truly am".

"Ah, well, what's done is done. And besides, we'd better get going." He waved towards the sun. "Come on, your mother is waiting."

They half walked, half ran towards the harbour. There, besides the grey ship, stood Nèniel's mother.

"Good, there you are." She looked relived at her husband and youngest daughter. Then she turned towards Nèniel, her eyes weren't as mild now. "You have quite an explanation to do!"

"I'm sorry," Nèniel whispered.

"Yes, yes, of course you are," her mother replied, then she smiled, "but never mind, we have to get onboard now."

Nèniel was clearly reluctant to go onboard. Her eyes kept flicking towards the south.

This is wrong, she thought, I shouldn't be leaving!

She shook her head, and went up the ladder onto the deck. The doubt weighted heavily on her, something that didn't go unnoticed.

"Nènie?" Alwen was tugging her sleeve, "is there something wrong?"

"No, little sister, at least nothing you should bother yourself with," she smiled at her.

The ship started moving – slowly, since there was no wind – and Nèniel lifted Alwen up to gaze at the slowly shrinking Havens.

"Wave goodbye to Middle-Earth now," she whispered in her ear. But as she said this, a thought struck her so hard that she nearly dropped her sister. It was too early. She wasn't destined to leave yet.

Acting on impulse, she put Alwen down, kissed her on the forehead, and before anyone could react, she'd climbed over the rear, and let herself drop into the ocean.

"Nènie! Nènie!"

Alwen's frustrated cries rang in her ears as she started swimming towards the coast, and soon they mingled with her parents yelling. Nèniel tried frantically to ignore them, and focus on the swimming, but it was hard. She was, after all, young, and had still strong bonds with her family.

Nèniel soon realised that she had strongly miscalculated the distance between the Havens and the ship. When she'd swim for 15 minutes, the shore was still far away, and she was growing weary. At times, she looked back, but now the grey ship had disappeared behind the horizon. Still, she could swear that she could hear Alwen's cries; or maybe it was just in her head.

She'd never been this far from her family before.

This didn't exactly help on her weariness, and soon the world consisted only of herself and the sea. She drifted off to darkness.

After what seemed like an eternity, she could hear voices. Strange voices.

"An elf? Here?" – one of them was saying.

"Queer" – said another voice.

"I wonder. What could she be doing here?"

"Didn't you see? She leaped from the grey ship."

"But, what should we do with her?"

At this point, Nèniel opened her eyes; in front of her was to strange shapes. They were standing on the water, like if it was firm ground, and they looked strangely…transparent.

"We could leave her to her fate…" - the first voice said.

"No, that would be cruel. Besides, she is not destined to end here." – the second voice said.

"How would you know?"

"I don't know, I just do…"

"Ah, well, let's help her then!"

Nèniel felt like something lifted her up, and carried her away. Above her, the stars were shining. Her eyes drifted towards Eärendil, and to the brightest star of all.

"Maglor…" she whispered. And from that moment, she knew she had to find him again.

After a long while, the creature, or whatever it was that were carrying her, stopped, and she was flung through the air, and landed on a soft dune. She felt the soft sand between her fingers, and gave a weak smile.

"Thank you," she whispered. Then a welcomed darkness flowed in over her.

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Disclaimer: Same as with last chapter ^_^;;