CHAPTER Three

People unknown but familiar

By the time they had fully made it to Rivendell Harry had been forced wide awake by the beautiful sights.As they passed elves who gave waves or just smiles and nods which where returned by the wizard,hobbits,and man but not by Harry as she was staring slacked jawed at all the beautiful parts of art shown.

They had given their horses to a elf who had token them with a smile and a another one greeted them and started to direct them though the marble hallways of Rivendell.

Making their way to a door the elf opened it to revile a study in which a elf sat in silver robes his brown hair held tightly back in a braid while his eyes scanned a page in a book.Once the door opened he looked up and smiled,if not out of relief but out of sheer happiness.

"I'm glade to see you all are well.Welcome to Rivendell.Bilbo,Gandelf,Aragon and," The elf stared at the smallest kindly. ,"the young one."

"Greetings, Eldron," Gandelf,Aragon, and Bilbo said at the same time with wide smiles on their faces.

Harry just stood their and fumbled shyly with her blouse , which had been tucked in her shirt, but had came out in the middle of all the commotion.Looking up she only met a smiling face of the elf but she quickly looked down a blush dawning on her cheeks.

"Welcome to Rivendell, Harry Potter," Eldron frowned wordily to the other two and led them across the room where they sat,"How about I get some omit for those cuts and scrapes?"

So saying he swiftly glided over to a oak draw with small leaves and vines engraved in it and golden handles. Opening it he grabbed some things out of it, closed it, and quickly glided over to them.

Kneeling down he put some of the stinging omit on Gandelf legs and arms then Bilbo's, and the getting to Harry he put some on the side of her face which had been cut and scraped to a bloody mess, and her legs, arms, and back too which had all been cut by tiny rocks. She was, by far, the worst of the three yet she didn't seem to care all that much.

Once finishing he quickly made his way over to the cupboard and put his supply's back and then made his way back to the group and sat across from them.

"Now that that is finished,"he said and eyed Harry with a elegant smile, happiness showering him as he saw her look around in a child like wonder full of innocent and curiosity,"I think we can relax and let that clean your cuts a little." The three adults began to talk and Harry listened to them intently...though....not for long. They mostly talked about things that had happened on the trip back and sometimes Eldron would shoot her a smiling glance which just made her glade he hadn't forgotten her. But now she, sadly but maybe for the better, was getting bored and no matter how much she had been taut to stay put at her old home their where too many things to explore. So saying she spied the door, cracked open slightly, and looked back to the adults. Aragon was blushing at something making the elf laugh and the old wizard and hobbit chuckle shaking their heads. Behind them she saw a window showing a clear blue sky, rolling mountains in the distance with gray clouds coming their way. It seemed, she thought, that their was a mighty wind in the south that was coming hear, bringing a storm with it.

So, finely deciding on what she would do, Harry slid silently off the couch and made her way for the door and just as silently as she got of the couch she crept out the door.

She made her way down spiral halls, and passing Elves. Only a few saw her thought, most of them where talking or just not paying attention. Their weren't many in the halls at the moment anyway's.

As she passed a fair she-elf with bright blue eyes and golden brown hair her stomach growled.

The elf looked down and smiled seeing the child, Harry blushed in embarrassed. The elf was clad in beautiful white cloth's, golden lining around her dress, with beautiful mint green shoos. She on the other hand looked like a dirty ol' farm girl, a brown skirt with a white blouse and a shawl tide tightly around her little waist showing how skinny she rely was.

"I see your hungry little one,"said the elf in a elegant voice and her eyes traveled up her shoulders looking at Harry's skinny face and hands,"Well I could see if one of the kitchen workers will let you have something. It isn't but a hour and some odd minuets till lunch and I doubt you want to wait ne?"

She blushed and shook her head,"No thank you, I'm not hungry."but just then, as if protesting, her stomach gave such a mighty roar that Harry was sure even the woman had to of blushed.

"Well maybe just a little."

Laughing the elf picked her up and nodded.

"Well my name is Lin, but you may call me Melody if you pleas."

"I used to know a pretty girl named Melody,"said Harry,"she died when I turned three jus' before I left home."

The elf looked down worried,"I hope you didn't see her death." Harry shook her head slightly," didn't see her death but I did see the body. It was all bloody and stuff,"she shivered,"her thought was cut open by a knife."

"If you would like,"said the elf kindly,"I'll listen to what you know about it."

Harry nodded and said,"Her daddy was mean to her once her mommy died, I knowed her dad so I know he was a nice person he just got rely angry cut she looked exactly like her mommy so he got so mad one day he killed her. Then he killed himself."

Lin frowned,"and you saw the body?"she whispered.

Harry looked up,"I'm the one who found it, she was about the only one who didn't teas me about my weird ears, or smallness or anything. We used to go to church and pry for her mommy together cose her mommy was very sick with something called Ebola. A hole hole bunch of people died to, though I dont know how many."

Lin nodded knowing a innocents never should see anything like that.

Disiding to change the subject as she trund a corner seeing a young elf maiden go into a door that was the kitchen she asked,"What things do you do in your spare time?"

Harry smiled,"I read,"she wisperd.

"You like to read?"

"Yes very very much.

They stepped into the kitchens and Lin when up to a skinny woman with brown hair and dark blue eyes.

"Why, Lin, what brings you hear?"said the woman in a soft voice.

"The young one hear is mighty hungry,"while saying so Harry stomach became so loud that several elves turned their heads surprised looks on their faces.

"Oh my!"said the woman and practically everyone stopped working crowding around the small child who had been set on the ground,'what are they doing to children these day!? Starving them?!"

"No ma'm',"she said shyly looking up to them,"I didn't get to eat cose we were attacked on our way hear." Some of the elves ticked sadly and quickly started getting her some food.

"Hear you go young one,"said the woman,"this should hold you till lunch."

Harry was handed a chicken with some lovely stuffing,it wasn't big nor too small, just right for her.

"Can I, if I may, have some milk? Or orange juice?"

The woman smiled and scurried off to grab a glass then got some milk,"Hear you grow. Make you grow up to be big and strong. Good for a young elves bones."

Harry smiled slightly, a blush tainting her face, then was brought off with Lin.

"My room isn't far away. We'll go their for you to eat and talk."

Harry nodded. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. * * * *

"Aw yes and you always seemed to run off like that,"Gandelf was saying when Eldron suddenly jumped about a mile in the air.

(A.N gee elves jump high when they are surprised ne?) "what what's wrong!?"asked a worried Aragon. He had NEVER seen his additive dad do THAT before.

"Harry!"he said swiftly,"shoes not here."

And indeed the place she had been sitting half and hour ago was vacant looking as though she had never been.

"Oh!I should of know, why didn't I keep a eye on her!"mound Bilbo.

"Its all right friend, we'll find her don't you worries."

So saying Eldron got up quickly fallowed by the others

"Looks like their is a another Bando,"stated Gandelf and Eldron took a worried look outside. It was starting to pick up a wind and he didn't like that idea. For some reason he had the feeling that she was out their....

* * *

Harry stumbled as she was hit by another gust of wind. About 20 minuets ago she had finished her lunch and had made her leave from Lin's room.

Now she wished she didn't, she was trudging outside lost in the middle of no where. She had told Lin that she was going back to the library but had seen something odd in the forest and had decided to fallow.

After fallowing for a couple of minutes, loosing her shoes in the proses, she finely gave up and decided to turn back. But she couldn't find her way so she made the decision of going to the rode, to the south, to see better instead of staying in the dense trees.

Right now she was wishing she was back with the trees, she knew what kind of storm this was. Bando storms where very bad, one had happened just last month she remembered, it had caused little Sam, a hobbit that lived in Hobbiten that was the son of the Gamgee's, Bilbo's gardener, to go flying though the air twenty feet to the north since it blew from the south. She shivered.

Once in her life she had been coght in a horrible storm such as that. She had been lost and was found crying, by a stranger, in the rain and wind.

He didn't have a home but he had a hole in a wall that led to a small cave as one and it was worm and cozy cose of a fire.

He looked, she pondered, like the man in her dream- the dog man. But... different. Long tangles of thick black hair that went passed his shoulders, with thin skin lightly stretching over his bones, and hallow eyes that where haunting. But once she took off her jacket, which had belong to her cousin so it covered her face, he had became as happy and joyful as a pup. She frowned. Their was no man here , though, to save her now. She would die!

I'm going to die!she thought wildly as the thought just now came to her.I'm going to die and no one will notice! I'm going to rot and my bones will melt away and and and-

Harry didn't get to finish her sentence as she was thrown off her feet a yard into the air and landed 2 feet towards the north back to the small patch of woods that led back to Rivendell.

"I wanna go home!"she screamed tears trekking their way down her face. She felt something hit her in the side and was thrown into the air once again. Opening her blurry eyes she saw a rider on a horse clumsy making its way down the road and, with her good eyes, she saw it was a male elf.

"HELP!"she screamed as she was thrown to the north and she saw the horse stop just before she landed.

She teared in pain and frustration and hail started to fall along with the already

pounding rain and she knew that the man wouldn't make it in time before the next gust.

And she was correct.

Their, she could see, was a gust of wind picking up shards of rocks and blowing the dirt up.

She gave a sob and, when the man raised just in sight, screamed with tears shedding even more and just when she got hit everything went black and she was able to relish in it from the fiery pain that burned though her body. All went into darkness and silence and her very last thought was,'

I'm dead. This is finely it. I'm dead and no one is going to noticed. Death.

Lovely.'