Song For Nought

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Lamoo: No problems there! I can't give anymore hints though. Except.there's more twists and turns coming! Glad you like the story!

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Nuquer was unsure of what to make out of the talk with Waenmetiel. Did she really want the two to be "sisters" they barely knew each other and yet Waenmetiel had just opened up to Nuquer? Nuquer wondered back into her room, checking to see if her doors were closed so she wouldn't ave any other lost relations wondering in to talk. Nuquer thought about what Waenmetiel had said though. Maybe she was right, Legolas wasn't the elf for her.

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Legolas sat across from Maik, she had been comforting him for the past few hours.

"Legolas, it's getting late. I think I should probably go. You need some rest and time to think about this. I'll talk to Nuquer and see what is wrong with her. Don't worry about a thing," Maik put her hand on Legolas's knee to comfort him, "If it doesn't work out remember, I'm always here for you whenever you need me. So are Elladan, Elrohir, and Ven." Maik smiled half-heartedly and stood to go.

"Thanks, Maik. I owe you one. When this is all over remind me to be nice to you for the next fifty years!" Legolas smiled as she left.

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Over the next few days Rivendell was quite uneventful. Maik still hadn't gotten a chance to talk to Nuquer; it was almost as if she had disappeared from Rivendell.

"I haven't seen her around anywhere." Ven confirmed one day with the five elves sat around a large table eating their lunches.

"Why is she avoiding us? I don't understand." Elladan shook his head.

"I think we should sneak into her room one night, tie her down-"

"Oh, you'd like that wouldn't you?" Elladan interrupted Legolas, mid- sentence.

".and make her talk." Legolas finished.

"Oh, that too." Elladan smiled.

"Who knows." Ven said frustrated at their friend.

"I have an idea!" Maik suddenly piped up.

"She says that a lot." Elrohir noted.

"We get her best friend Melde here and that'll fix her!" Maik exclaimed.

"I though you guys were her best friends?" Elladan asked slightly confused.

"We are all good friends but we live in different places, it's hard to be best friends that way. Melde lives in Dol Amroth also." Maik sat in thought.

"Ok, why wasn't I notified there were elves in Dol Amroth?" Legolas looked at Maik.

"There are only two families, calm down. Anyways, we get Melde here and we can solve our problem!" Maik thought it out in her head.

"We just have to somehow get Melde here." Elrohir mentioned to the ecstatic Maik.

"Well, we have to a least try! We don't want to the next three weeks like this do we?" Maik looked at her friends.

"Um, I say we send the messenger out today and get this Melde person here as soon as possible!" Legolas voted.

"I agree." Elrohir nodded.

"Let's go then!" Maik stood up and the five headed to Elrond's study to find paper and then find the messenger.

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A few hours later a messenger was on his way, in a hurry, to Dol Amroth and the five young elves were lazing around their now familiar pond.

"Ow long will it take to get here?" Ven asked as she plucked apart a piece of grass.

"She should be here by the end of the week at the latest. Dol Amroth is not far from here and the messenger said he knew a short cut." Maik was pleased with her plan and already thinking ahead of how to explain this to Melde, who Maik had met a few times before. "She's really nice and, if anyone can get what's wrong out of Nuquer, it's Melde." Maik said with confidence.

"Good because, if I don't know why the sudden mood change happened with Nuquer, I'll go insane." Legolas laid back into the warm grass and closed his eyes, thinking about how the week would unfold.

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