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The next morning, I'm am woken by arwen who bursts in my room followed by lord glorfindel. I pull the blankets over mt head. I slept only four hours.
'Rise and shine ,' calls arwen.
'Not now ,' I sigh.
'Yes, now ,' I hear glorfindel's cheerful voice. He steals my balnket and I curl up on my cold bed, very fetus-like. I don't wanna get up. Just let me sleep, five minutes !
But no. glorfindel is not prepared to take my whining and half-carries me to the bathroom where he puts me into the shower. The water is cold. Oh great. Against all odds, it's not even waking me up properly.
'Glorfindel, I'll kill you if I get my hands on you !'
I hear laughter in the direction of my bedroom. Glorfindel and arwen obviously planned to have fun with a non-moring-person like me. Could it be better ? I'm just finished with brushing my teeth under the ice cold water, when somebody comes rushing into the rrom. 'Now, come on, you are in a hurry, my love ,' says glorfindel in a sickening sweet voice. He pulls the shower-curtain aside.
'Hey ! Don't do that !'
'Nice sight , everytime,' smiles glorfindel and hand me a towel.
'Nothing you haven't seen before.' How true, there are few people to withstand glorfindel and I was only a foolish little elf when I gave in to him. Good thing, I don't regret it.
'You changed over the centuries. You might not have noticed, but I have.'
'You were keeping an eye on me, hm ?'
'I keep my eyes on all the pretty elves I like, my friend.'
'Like legolas ?'
He smiles dreamily. 'Just like him.'
'Oh, you have the hots for legolas ? He hates you anyway. You could rather bend stone or break a thread than make him love you.'
'I know .' Deep sigh. 'Well, but this is not about me. We got to make our haldir-elf pretty !' He shoves me back into the bedroom and I stand waiting, looking like a drowned rat, while they are going through my clothes.
'This one is it ,' announces arwen finally and holds wine-red robes with blue and silver embroidered sleeves out for me to approve. I nod and yawn. One robe is as good as the other, so why not this one. I force arwen and glorfindel out of the room while I'm dressing or they would insist on deciding which underwear I should choose.
After the dressing-part glorfindel braids my hair and arwen is putting some stuff on my face, where I don't even know what it's for. Most likely for hiding the black shades under my eyes. I doze off while they are working.
'Finished. Whatcha thinking ? I'm good at that hair-braiding, don't you think ?'
Hm? Oh, yes, he is. But I already know that. Like I told you, glorfindel is a former 'aquintance' of mine.
'Yeah, it looks pretty nice.'
'Now, go on, down to the hall for breakfast for two reasons. Reason one, having breakfast, reason two, checking your effect.'
Glorfindel and arwen drag me out of the room and down the stairs. After a while I found energy to make myself walk. But I'm still so tired that I can't keep my head up and black dots are dancing quick-step in front of my eyes. Yawn. Stretch. We reached the hall.
Quite a few elves turn their heads when I walk by. Is that haldir who does normally wear those shabby archer-robes? Yeah, dear friends, it must be me, because nobody else around here has hair quite as shining silver as mine. Golden, Red-golden, auburn, choclate, ebony, but I'm pretty much the only one around here with a silver mane.
We sit down for breakfast and very soon aragorn and legolas come to join us. Aragorn tells us about the preperations he made for arwens and his wedding in three weeks and I feel like I had lead in my head.
After I fell asleep in my chair arwen wakes me with a nudge in the ribs. Ouch !
'It's sunrise, you gotta go.'
Oh no. I'm practically asleep, how can I teach anyone anything right now ? Okay, now, legs, carry me out into the garden where elladan and elrohir hang around and I'll take a nap up here! No ? Right, I'm sighing and heaving myself out of the chair. It works, yes I'm walking into the gardens.
The mist ist still lingering on the floor and feels pleasant cold on my ankles. The sky is clouded and pale blue, somewhere behind them the sun is shining. Elladan and elrohir are waiting with the faces like they are waiting for their execution. They are f**king maggots, ain't that the truth. So I have no choice but go and fight the losing battle .
The next morning, I'm am woken by arwen who bursts in my room followed by lord glorfindel. I pull the blankets over mt head. I slept only four hours.
'Rise and shine ,' calls arwen.
'Not now ,' I sigh.
'Yes, now ,' I hear glorfindel's cheerful voice. He steals my balnket and I curl up on my cold bed, very fetus-like. I don't wanna get up. Just let me sleep, five minutes !
But no. glorfindel is not prepared to take my whining and half-carries me to the bathroom where he puts me into the shower. The water is cold. Oh great. Against all odds, it's not even waking me up properly.
'Glorfindel, I'll kill you if I get my hands on you !'
I hear laughter in the direction of my bedroom. Glorfindel and arwen obviously planned to have fun with a non-moring-person like me. Could it be better ? I'm just finished with brushing my teeth under the ice cold water, when somebody comes rushing into the rrom. 'Now, come on, you are in a hurry, my love ,' says glorfindel in a sickening sweet voice. He pulls the shower-curtain aside.
'Hey ! Don't do that !'
'Nice sight , everytime,' smiles glorfindel and hand me a towel.
'Nothing you haven't seen before.' How true, there are few people to withstand glorfindel and I was only a foolish little elf when I gave in to him. Good thing, I don't regret it.
'You changed over the centuries. You might not have noticed, but I have.'
'You were keeping an eye on me, hm ?'
'I keep my eyes on all the pretty elves I like, my friend.'
'Like legolas ?'
He smiles dreamily. 'Just like him.'
'Oh, you have the hots for legolas ? He hates you anyway. You could rather bend stone or break a thread than make him love you.'
'I know .' Deep sigh. 'Well, but this is not about me. We got to make our haldir-elf pretty !' He shoves me back into the bedroom and I stand waiting, looking like a drowned rat, while they are going through my clothes.
'This one is it ,' announces arwen finally and holds wine-red robes with blue and silver embroidered sleeves out for me to approve. I nod and yawn. One robe is as good as the other, so why not this one. I force arwen and glorfindel out of the room while I'm dressing or they would insist on deciding which underwear I should choose.
After the dressing-part glorfindel braids my hair and arwen is putting some stuff on my face, where I don't even know what it's for. Most likely for hiding the black shades under my eyes. I doze off while they are working.
'Finished. Whatcha thinking ? I'm good at that hair-braiding, don't you think ?'
Hm? Oh, yes, he is. But I already know that. Like I told you, glorfindel is a former 'aquintance' of mine.
'Yeah, it looks pretty nice.'
'Now, go on, down to the hall for breakfast for two reasons. Reason one, having breakfast, reason two, checking your effect.'
Glorfindel and arwen drag me out of the room and down the stairs. After a while I found energy to make myself walk. But I'm still so tired that I can't keep my head up and black dots are dancing quick-step in front of my eyes. Yawn. Stretch. We reached the hall.
Quite a few elves turn their heads when I walk by. Is that haldir who does normally wear those shabby archer-robes? Yeah, dear friends, it must be me, because nobody else around here has hair quite as shining silver as mine. Golden, Red-golden, auburn, choclate, ebony, but I'm pretty much the only one around here with a silver mane.
We sit down for breakfast and very soon aragorn and legolas come to join us. Aragorn tells us about the preperations he made for arwens and his wedding in three weeks and I feel like I had lead in my head.
After I fell asleep in my chair arwen wakes me with a nudge in the ribs. Ouch !
'It's sunrise, you gotta go.'
Oh no. I'm practically asleep, how can I teach anyone anything right now ? Okay, now, legs, carry me out into the garden where elladan and elrohir hang around and I'll take a nap up here! No ? Right, I'm sighing and heaving myself out of the chair. It works, yes I'm walking into the gardens.
The mist ist still lingering on the floor and feels pleasant cold on my ankles. The sky is clouded and pale blue, somewhere behind them the sun is shining. Elladan and elrohir are waiting with the faces like they are waiting for their execution. They are f**king maggots, ain't that the truth. So I have no choice but go and fight the losing battle .
