I've had various 'complaints' of Orophin's snigger *snigger* So.... SNIGGER! Oh, And I just couldn't help it! I had to put Figwit in! So, please I've forgotten where he's from, Ilmadris I think, because he's dark, but I just gotta use him!

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After a number of moments Ademia was crouching by Rumil next to the fire. "We cannot go any further this night."

Haldir came running back. "We've got a whole four hosts of orcs behind us."

Ademia shouted a curse, and Orophin wondered if they could hear her at Lothlorien. The thought almost made him smile. Ademia quirked an eyebrow at him. "Well we can't go any further and we can't just abandon Rumil," she said, looking up at the taller elf. "I will stay behind with him. You and Orophin go, bring back help."

Ademia looked at him. "No! I'm not leaving you two to die back here. Orophin's the fastest runner. It's not more than five minutes. I will stay with you."

He opened his mouth she cut him off. "You may be supposed to protect me, but I am the ruler, I will not let my people die when I get away."

He nodded at last. "If we are losing, you run! Orophin, go!"

Orophin turned and ran. "How long do we have?" Rumil asked, staggering to his feet.

"Four, maybe five minutes."

"Rumil, get as far away as you can. Try to get back, and above all: stay away from the fighting," Ademia ordered.

He opened his mouth to argue. Haldir gestured him off. The orcs were within sight of even a Man now. Ademia pulled her bow off her back. "Good luck, my friend."

"We will need it," Haldir replied.

The orcs hit them as a flood.
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Orophin arrived in Lothlorien at that moment. The guard picked him up and got his message, sending a fresh runner to the palace, where Legolas still waited. He learned that Figwit, sent by Elrond, was there. "I must go back to my brothers," Orophin cried.

"No, Orophin. You are much too tired to go anywhere."

Eventually he was convinced to go to the Healers. Figwit and Legolas led the group to find Ademia and Haldir. Going as fast as they dared, they found a slight problem. Haldir and Ademia had managed to get away from the orcs, but they themselves weren't in much better form than the ones they had killed. Ademia's leg was gouged down to the bone, she had a deep scratch on her cheek, and the back of her shirt was slit with a cut trailing down her back. Haldir's left arm was gouged, his right arm had been slit from elbow to shoulder, and he had his chest cut. Ademia was doing the best she could with that. It was Figwit who had first seen them. "Ademia!"

The female elf jumped up, but let out a cry of pain when her leg buckled underneath her. Haldir used his bandaged right arm to catch her. She laughed. "I guess that answers the question to whether I can walk or not."

The Healers almost rode over the rest of them in the hurry to get to the two of them. Giving Ademia something they ordered her to bite down. She grumbled and one of them stepped back. "Do you want your tongue bitten off?"

She stuck her tongue out at him and grabbed it back. After a few seconds he pulled a bit of metal out of her back. "This, could have gotten infected and-"

He was interuppted by the sight of a princess falling to the ground. That, too, was the last Haldir saw for a while.
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When Ademia awoke her mind wsa filled with worries. Haldir and his two brothers eased three of them. Rumil laughed when he saw her face. "We're fine, Mia. You are too, so take off that 'I just saw a cave troll in my bed room!' look."

She sneered at him. "You're much prettier when you're not sneering," Haldir laughed.

She sneered one more time just for good measure and pushed herself upward. Haldir nodded to Orophin who mimed something to him. "What was that about?"

"There is a message waiting for you."
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Bye!