Chapter 2 A Baby's Cry
He had been warm and it had been dark he could feel the beating of his mothers heart and then he was taken from that warm place and put in a place of Great light and he cried. He wanted to hear the beating of that heart but now it was taken away from him and he cried even louder.
Rosie heard something, but what she heard was impossible. She heard a babies Cry. She had been sitting in her garden playing with her flowers making them grow and babies were not part of her life's equation. She got up and followed the sound. It was coming from the field. She ran. The sound was getting louder. There in a little clearing surrounded by flowers was the most amazing thing that she had ever seen in all of her thirty-two years, it was a baby wrapped in a fine blanket. The child had kicked off his blankets and she could see little leather shoes on his tiny feet. She looked around and she could see nothing and now one else. She went over to the child and picked it up and the baby stopped crying. "Oh Little one where is your mother" She started cooing and making little soothing sounds to the baby and all the while she was looking for some sign of the babies mother. There were no tracks none at all. It was as if the child had just been placed here in this spot and had appeared out of nowhere. It was a mystery that she realized that she could not solve, and now there were more important things to look after. She looked at the baby and she saw that there was blood on the blankets, she became frightened and started to examine the child for a source for the blood but she soon realized that the blood was on the outside of the blanket and not coming from the child. She looked at the baby. He had dark almost jet black hair and the most beautiful blue eyes that Rosie had ever seen. And he had cute little pointed ears much like her own. He was an elvish baby that much was certain but in all of her life she had never seen an elf of her world with blue eyes. In fact she had never seen blue eyes in anyone before not even the humans. Somehow she did not think that this child had come from any place on her world and for the first time she found herself believing in the legends of her people, talking about other worlds that were very close to her own. She looked at the baby again and around his tiny neck she could see a necklace. She looked at it closer. At first when she looked at it she could not see anything and then as she looked it started to glow blue and then she saw letters appear upon it. It was a word that she did not know but somehow Rosie knew that it was a name. It said Arrendil. "Oh I think you were very much loved Arrendil, I do not know why you are here, but somehow I think that your mother was in deep trouble and the only thing she could think to do was to send you somewhere safe. You are lucky little one for this is the safest place that I know. I do not know what your fate is but I will Love you and guide you and protect you as if you were my own. And with the blessings of Eru maybe someday we will find out who you are and where you came from. Right now though, I think that you need to be feed and changed for you are wet." She took the baby in her arms and stood up and walked across the field to her home.