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Love in the Mist

Chapter 4: well met

Legolas was escorted to his room and when he entered it, his breath was taken away by the beautiful view from his window. While the room itself was beautiful with its rich mahogany furniture and reds and browns, his window had an amazing view of the gardens. He could see a crystal clear pond, lush forests and flowers of all sorts and different colors. He looked around and realized that he knew no one and had nothing to do. Searching through his bags, Legolas found his Bow and Arrows, deciding to go to the archery range.

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If I were a woodland prince, where would I be? Elenya wondered, as she looked around the palace for her guest. She thought of checking his room, but when she arrived, no one answered. So, now she was aimlessly wondering around, searching for someone who she didn't really know. The last time she had seen Legolas was when she was 200 years old, and of course, she expected that age and maturity had taken its toll and changed his look significantly.

Sighing with frustration, she sat down on a bench in the garden, looking at her feet. Her necklace dangling in front of her caught her attention. Taking it in her hand, she examined it closely, even though she had seen it a million times. It had an interesting design, incorporating flowers with stars. There were two leaves in the back that curved slightly, and were pearly white with a hint of silver. A flower made of sapphire navette gemstones with a silver star gemstone at its center glittered in the sunlight, while an intertwining thin piece of silver framed it. She remembered asking her father the significance of the intertwining wire-like work when she was 497 years old.

"Atar, why is this swirly thing here?" Young Elenya asked, pointing to the intertwining part of her "starlight" necklace. Elrond sat his daughter upon his knee, and said,

"There are many different meanings. One, is that it represents life, and how everything is connected. Another, is that it represents how much your Atar and Atara care for you, and that our love for you is everlasting." Elrond smiled. Elenya thought for a moment.

"Atar, you said there were many different meanings. You've only named two. I thought 'many' means more than two." Elenya asked, slightly confused.

"Ah, it does. The third meaning, is similar to the second. Someday, when you fall in love with someone, and you may even get married, if you give this necklace to your soulmate, it represents your eternal commitment." Elenya made a face.

"fall is love? EW!! Boys have cooties! Not only that, I'll never want to give this necklace away... it's too pretty." Elrond smiled slightly.

"You may change your mind when you get older."

She laughed lightly at her comment from so long ago... although her views on the opposite sex had changed, she still didn't fancy falling in love at any time soon. Apparently her father wasn't right about everything.

"And here I can't even find my house guest... some great hostess I am." She snickered to herself, getting up from the bench, deciding to look some more.

She didn't get far before literally walking into someone.. a fairly tall 'someone', causing her to fall over.

"My goodness, I'm sorry! I'm such a careless person..." Elenya stuttered, as the person helped her up. As she looked up, she looked into the most beautiful blue eyes she'd ever seen.

"No, my lady, I'm sorry. I should have been watching where I was going." The elf replied courteously, kissing her hand. The elf was about 6 feet tall, with a flawless fair complexion. He was graced with long blonde hair as bright as golden sunshine, and a kind look about him. Elenya glanced at his hands to see what he was holding, and noticed it was a bow and a quiver of arrows.

"You practice the bow?" She asked curiously, forgetting about her fall and the common courtesies. The elf looked down at his bow.

"Why, yes I do." Elenya studied him for a moment.

"Where are you from?" Elenya was pretty sure she knew the answer already, but just wanted to make sure.

"Mirkwood. My name is Legolas." Elenya's smile brightened.

"Ah! Then, I've found the Prince of Mirkwood. My name is Elenya. I was trying to find you earlier, but you weren't in your room. If I had known you were an archer, I would've looked at the archery range first." Elenya laughed.

"Oh my.. now I feel terrible for knocking you over, not only because you are a lady, but the princess as well. The valor is out to get me." Legolas grimaced, only to receive a playful punch in the arm.

"Don't. I may be the princess, but I'm certainly no lady." Legolas looked at what she was wearing, seeing how the dress looked absolutely beautiful on her... come to think of it, she was radiating happiness and light, as most elves do. But he found her personality quite interesting. She followed his gaze and rolled her eyes.

"Don't let this dress fool you. I only wore it because my father bade me to wear it... to look 'presentable' or something or other. If I had things my way, I'd be wearing my hunting clothing right now." Her comment made Legolas smile and laugh. Truly, here was someone he could relate to. He gestured towards his own formal wear;

"I believe we have a similar situation." they both laughed, enjoying each other's complementary personalities and sense of humors.

"I have an idea! Why don't we both get changed, and we'll head to the archery range for practice!" Elenya burst out, making Legolas raise an eyebrow.

"You... you practice the bow?" Legolas asked, surprised. Here is an interesting one.. Legolas hadn't been talking with the princess for more than 5 minutes, but was admiring her greatly.

"You bet! So... how about it?" Elenya asked. Legolas nodded eagerly. "Stay in you room, I'll come to get you." They then headed their separate ways. Elenya decided not to tell Legolas that she was the best archer of Rivendell, just to see what he thought of female archers.

This should prove to be interesting...

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