When I was informed that my daughter had been found, I immediately pleaded that I leave at once to find her. Allanon seemed reluctant to let me go.

"Meia, this was not why I brought you back. I brought you here so you could be safe, not to hurl yourself into another adventure. What about Frodo and Bodkin?" He asked. I turned staring into the eyes of my beloved family.

"If Mother is going, so am I," Bodkin said to the surprise of everyone. She was the last anyone would expect to go off on some foolish expedition. Peregrin gripped her elbow.

"Beloved, you can't! What are you saying? This is no stroll to Isengaurd to have a picnic in its courtyard. Gandalf said he only had information, which means he wants us to find her,"

"Which means my sister could be in danger. She could be hurt, dying. I'm going, Pippin,"

Pippin could see in her blue eyes she wasn't going to back down to him. He sighed and nodded, "Then, I'm going with you,"

"We should go too, Brom, Lord Aragorn wanted us to deliver a message to Gandalf about the Red,"

"Wait a minute, what are the Red? Why are they such a threat? I thought the ring was destroyed," I asked confused.

"This has nothing to do with the Ring, Blue Ivy," We all turned at the soft and powerful voice of Elrond. He walked through the small crowd and stopped before me. "The Ring was much simpler to deal with." He pulled from his long sleeve, an elegant length of silver birch. "Do you know what this is, Lady Meia?"

"It looks like a wand, made of Birch. It's quite common in Rivendell and in the Feyy forest. What about it?"

"The Red are a group of Feyy long hated by the Elves. They sided with Sauron and when they lost we crippled their beauty, remarried their mates, and stole their longevity. Now that Sauron is destroyed, the Red want revenge. They've begun plundering elven cities and any of their allies. This wand is our only means of containing them, for they have powers older than Lady Galadriel's for they were here before the elves."

I took it from him and felt a tingling sensation shoot up my arm. I understood. Trees have long been used to create barriers.


"You mean the Elves cast spells upon the Birch trees of Feyy Forest and imprisoned the remaining Fey there?" Elrond nodded and I felt cold all over. "But what do the Red have to do with me, and if they fey are escaping their prisons, how can this protect me?"

"Gandalf said he found that very branch in spot you had last been seen twenty years ago, we believe the Red sent you back and not all they Fey have escaped, only one. The one who belonged to that tree, According to Elvish records it was a Dammel named Cinqqnic *Synch-K-nic * *Dammel means a female Feyy, a Stell is a male * She is very old and very powerful,"

"But I still don't understand what that has to do with me?" I frowned and Frodo gripped my hand.

"Wife, that's like asking why the Ring chose me when it knew I would destroy it. It just is," I sighed and looked around the around the room until my eyes met Elrond's again.

"Can you at least tell me why they're called the Red and why everyone's against me going to find out what happened to my daughter?" Elrond gave me a look one does with their growing impatient with a quizzical child.

"They are called so because the main part of this group is made of Red orcs who live far to south on the very boarder of Middle Earth. The ride great beasts that look like silver mountain cats that track a wizard by the very small of his magic." I waited for him to go on but Elrond said nothing more.

"And, what about Katey? Why can't I go see her? Why can't I go to Gandalf and find out what's happened to my daughter?"

"I can tell you, Meia," Rash said, his face serious and his eyes cold like chilled blood. "Its because the last place Katey went to look for you is Isengaurd,"

I stared at them all in disbelief.

"You mean you think that Gandalf kidnapped my Katey?"