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Chapter 17 Dancing Lessons.Thanks everyone who reviewed. I feel loved!!!
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"Well? What happened?" Amothien asked the second Emer entered her room.
"He apologized." Em said simply as she flopped down on a chair.
"Apologized?" Amothien repeated surprised. "Whatever for?"
"Doesn't matter anymore." Em said as she ran her fingers over the diary in her hands.
Amothien just nodded her head. "Well, what else happened?" Amothien asked with a big smile.
Em just looked up completely oblivious. "We walked back from the forest."
"And?" Amothien said, with the ever-growing smile.
"And we talked." Em said, still having no clue what Amothien was hinting at.
"All right then." Amothien said with a sly smile.
"What?" Em asked.
"Nothing." Amothien dismissed.
"What?" Em asked again.
"Nothing at all. Absolutely nothing." Amothien said with a smile.
"What?"
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Em wandered around the gardens of the palace as she played with a deep blue flower in her hand. She smiled slightly as she smelt the flower, glad at its pleasing scent. Her frozen blue dress swished from side to side as she walked down the gravel, sun-drenched path in the middle of beautiful, exotic plants.
"Good morning." Laughed a voice in her ear.
Em jumped at the sound so close, as she had thought she was the only one walking in the gardens at that time.
"I take it you are not pleased to see me then. I am sorry I am so frightening looking, would it help if I brought an orc with me so you could compare?" Legolas joked as he put on a sad face and began to walk away.
"Ooh, it's you. What do you want?" Em said, teasingly.
"A hug?" Legolas said.
"Why not hug your orc. What is an orc?" Em asked
"You will hopefully never have to know." Legolas said as a dark shadow fell on his face, but erased itself quickly when he saw Em look at him worriedly.
"Well how are you this bright morning?" Legolas asked as he fell in step beside Em and continued on their walk.
"Peachy! Amothien has gone to check the dresses, so I decide to see the gardens. And yourself?" Em asked.
"I am in good health, thank you. You do have the strangest accent." Legolas commented.
"That's nice of you to say." Em said sarcastically as she laughed at the unexpected comment.
"No. I never said I did not like your accent, really I think it is very pleasant to the ear, but I have never heard one quite like it anywhere." Legolas explained. "I have traveled in many parts of Middle Earth, but none of the accents of the people I have heard sound like it."
"Is that a complement, comment or insult?" Em asked bewildered.
"Mostly complement and comment, not an insult." Legolas replied.
An awkward silence fell between them for a few achingly long minutes before either of them spoke again.
"Are you excited about the ball tonight?" Legolas asked as he turned his head to face her.
"Sure. Why not?" Em replied.
"Most of the balls I have been to have been…agreeable." Legolas remarked to ease her mind. It did not help.
"Well, that was some pep talk. They were mostly…agreeable, except for the ones that weren't." Em laughed.
"I might not be to fond of most balls, but at least at this one I have you to keep me company." Legolas said as he linked his hand with Em.
"Well I won't be much help to you there, comrade, I have little to know clue how to dance at these things and am not up for making a right idiot out of myself." Em said firmly.
"You do not know how to dance?" Legolas asked with a smile on his face, as he stopped walking.
"No… why?" Em asked suspiciously.
"That is a condition that can easily be fixed. Come with me." Legolas said as he started dragging Em alone a different path with him.
Legolas brought Em to a small nook in the garden that had a sundial in the center of the pavement area.
"You are looking at your dance instructor." Legolas said proudly.
Em burst out laughing.
"What?" Legolas asked.
After a few deep breaths Em look up again and answered him.
"Nothing." Em giggled.
Legolas shot her a skeptical look.
"Where I'm from not many boys would proudly say that they were dance instructors, mainly cause none of them can't dance for their lives." Em answered.
"Strange boys they must be." Legolas said thoughtfully.
Em started laugh again.
"Now what?" Legolas asked.
"Nothin Yoda." Em said and the put on a straight face. "Lead away teacher."
"Alright." Legolas said as he stood in front of Em. "I take your right hand in my left hand." He reached down for her hand and did as he said. "I put my hand on your back like this, and you hold up the hem of your dress a small bit, so you don't trip."
"When then?" Em asked.
"Then we dance." Legolas instructed. "Follow my feet. One…two…three…one...two…three."
After a few minutes of 'peculiar' dancing Em had gotten the hang of the steps and were gracefully dancing around the nock with Legolas, unknowingly others were watching the pair.
"He is falling in love." A sad voice said. "Anyone can see it in his eyes."
"More is the pity, with the news we bear." Said another voice.
"Should we tell him?" asked the first voice.
"Nay, inform the King first then the Prince." Said the second voice. "We must go quickly to the palace."
The pair of unknown watchers quickly made their way to the King's study to deliver their news.
AS AWKWARD AS A PIG ON ICE
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