Disclaimer: See previous chapters.
Authors Note: Since you all had to wait so long for the last chapter, I figured I'd type up the next chapter as quickly as I could and get it up. So here you go - the chapter that shows how much fun it can be, and how manipulative one can be, when one can see someone's emotions. :)
Now that I've got you worried (if the chapter title didn't already do that) on to the chapter!
Oh, and hiccups are stupid...*hiccup* *growl*
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-No Eyes Needed-
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-Chapter XVI-
-And The Author Hums Innocently-
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Unfortunately for Elisandra, as the trip wore on, it became apparent that the only things to do to entertain herself was to talk to someone, or pick apart random creature's fëa's. Also unfortunately, there were very often no random creatures around, and after the first few days, nobody seemed to want to talk. In fact, after the first few days, everybody started acting rather oddly. They talked quietly, if at all, and alertness shone so brightly in their fëa's that it blocked out just about everything else. Even Mersana was on edge. This, naturally, gave Elisandra the feeling that there was something she hadn't been told. She decided, however, that instead of asking, she'd wait and see if someone would tell her what they were being so alert about. They didn't. So Elisandra took matters into her own hands.
Elisandra had to wait for several days until the perfect chance came one evening. While everyone was setting up the camp and preparing for supper, she went over to Mersana, who was doing some sort of needlework - Elisandra could only tell because most of her fëa was still except a small wisp representing her arm - and smiled at the maid sweetly. At first, Mersana didn't notice, but eventually glanced up as she felt someone staring at her. Seeing it was only Elisandra, she glanced back down at her work. Then, after a few more moments of Elisandra staring at her, she sighed and put down her needlework.
"What?" she asked, exasperation shining brightly in her fëa.
"I heard a waterfall shortly before we stopped. I want to take a bath." Elisandra replied.
"Now, Elisandra, you can't just go for a bath in any old pool." Mersana said. "You don't know what could be in the water."
"A few guppies and some bugs." Elisandra said. "I want a bath."
"I did not mean animals - the water could be unclean!" Mersana said scoldingly.
"Which is why there were animals living in it." Elisandra said sarcastically. "Really Mersana, you think I learned nothing from all those books I'm always having read to me? The water is perfectly clean. I have been traveling for over a week, getting dusty and dirty and sticky, and I want a bath!" Elisandra saw mixed emotions flicker through Mersana's fëa - worry and fear most prominent. Also a great lot of stubbornness. "Come on, I'm not used to traveling at all, and this traveling for so long without even being able to have a bath is just...ugh." Mersana seemed to be wavering a bit, but since Elisandra didn't really want a bath, but wanted them to tell her why they were all on such a high alert, she went over the top and batted her eyelashes at the maid.
"No!" Mersana said firmly. "This is not easy for me, either, but both of us must just get used to it! We cannot go off by ourselves, and certainly none of the guards will be able to accompany us to a bath!"
"But I REALLY want a bath! I can feel the dust coating my skin!" Elisandra complained. "Why can't we just go off by ourselves?"
"Because!" Mersana snapped.
"If you can't give me a better reason then that, I'll go whether I have your permission or not." Elisandra said sulkily. Mersana snorted in disbelief, but Elisandra saw the alarm that she would do just that shoot through Mersana's fëa.
"You would not be able to find your way to the pool, child, so that is an empty threat!" Mersana said, the alarm in her fëa disappearing with that realization.
"I know where the road is. I follow it back until I hear the waterfall, then follow the sound of the waterfall to the pool. Simple!" Elisandra said cheerfully. Alarm and disbelief shot through Mersana's fëa. Then protectiveness entered at full strength, and Elisandra watched with inward curiosity as she almost SAW Mersana digging her heals in and preparing to do anything to stop Elisandra from going to take a bath. Legolas, naturally, chose that moment to walk up.
"Is there a problem?" he asked, glancing between Elisandra and Mersana's faces and quickly figuring out something was going on.
"Mersana said I can't have a bath." Elisandra said flatly, watching Legolas' fëa for his response. But, surprisingly, at that moment, Legolas seemed to somehow cause all of his emotions to go completely blank, and Elisandra couldn't read them. Curiosity crept into Elisandra's face as to how he could do that, but then Legolas spoke, and she was pulled back to the argument at hand.
"And she is absolutely right." he said.
"Why?" Elisandra demanded. "It's not like we're in any danger! We're still in Gondor!" At that, Legolas glanced over at Mersana, and Elisandra saw a hidden conversation pass between them with different facial expressions on Legolas' part, and emotions flitting through Mersana's fëa.
"Even in the best of time, the basest of evils is never completely wiped out." Legolas said finally, turning back to Elisandra. She peered at him, trying to decipher what he meant, but she really had no clue, and his fëa was still, somehow, hidden from her.
"Look, if there is any danger, I will probably see it before any of you do. I can see any living thing; forests don't block my vision as badly as yours!" Elisandra said. Mersana opened her mouth to object, but Legolas silenced the maid with a look.
"Perhaps you are right, Elisandra." Legolas said smoothly, turning back to Elisandra, and she blinked. What could have them so on edge that they wouldn't even tell her what it was? But before she could wonder about it more, Mersana stood up, in a huff, and went over to Elisandra's tent to prepare their things for a bath. Legolas disappeared into his own tent, and his form immediately became blurry through the fabric, but Elisandra also saw the glow increase slightly, as if his emotions had re-entered his fëa.
It was only a few minutes later that Elisandra and Mersana waved goodbye to the guard on watch, and went off along the forest floor. And it wasn't long after that that Elisandra got thoroughly distracted from thinking about what danger everyone was hiding from her and how Legolas could hide his emotions from her by deciding that she wanted to walk barefoot over the forest floor. She had, after all, walked over nothing but carefully made paths all her life, and wanted to feel this new terrain under her feet. But Mersana staunchly refused to let Elisandra take off her boots - which were in the style of Aragorn's ranger boots, for practicality - and went on and on about how Elisandra could cut her foot or some such nonsense. The argument lasted all the way to the pool, where it became a moot point.
Sighing, Elisandra let Mersana help her strip out of her clothes and wade into the water. Then, as Mersana began to help bathe Elisandra, Elisandra began thinking. It really bothered her that Mersana and Legolas wouldn't tell her what they thought was so dangerous that they had to keep on constant alert. The fact that they wouldn't tell her only made her wonder if it was really that big a deal - but it had to be, since they were all on such high alert. So Elisandra ran through all the things she'd heard about that might be troubling the north eastern reaches of Gondor or southern reaches of Rohan, in hopes of figuring it out herself. But she'd been so caught up in this business about her father, she'd barely been in the courts at all, and had heard no news of the outside world for quite awhile. Inwardly scolding herself, Elisandra instead turned her mind to how Legolas could block her from being able to see his emotions like that, but just then Mersana tugged heavily on her hair.
"Ow, what was that for?" Elisandra asked crankily, rubbing the new sore spot on her head.
"Pay attention! You boasted that you would be able to spot any danger to us from far away because of your vision, so you should at least look!" Mersana scolded. "And besides that, since we're already here, I'm going to have a bath as soon as you're finished, which you basically are." Mersana then directed Elisandra to the bank, where she dried herself and then sat down to wait for Mersana to finish bathing. Remembering Mersana's scolding, she kept a watch on the surrounding forest, occasionally turning around to look back towards the camp.
On one such turning to look behind herself, the hand Elisandra was putting out to steady herself came into contact with her boots. Hearing a splash from Mersana in the pool, Elisandra suddenly got an idea. She grinned to herself, and then glanced at Mersana to make sure the maids back was turned before moving the boots to a more...precarious spot. Elisandra then hummed to herself as she looked around, continuing her watch as unusual, and waiting until Mersana finished her bath. As Mersana got out, Elisandra rose and - quite accidentally - knocked her boots into the water. Faking surprise, Elisandra's head whipped towards the sound.
"What was that?" she demanded of her maid. Mersana looked into the water, and exasperation entered her fëa for the second time that day as she saw what had made the noise.
"Your boots have fallen into the water." she said. "And look, the splashes have gotten your dress wet, as well!" Mersana muttered over this for a few moments, then spoke again. "Well, there's nothing for it, I guess. Put on the dress and stay here while I run back to the camp and get you another dress and a spare pair of shoes."
"I can walk back barefoot! The dress can't be that bad!" Elisandra protested.
"It IS that bad, as you'll discover when you put it on!" Mersana said, putting the dress in Elisandra's arms. Even without putting it on, Elisandra could feel very wet fabric on her arm, and sighed. One good plan gone awry. Elisandra fought to get the dress on - wet dresses were very un-co-operative - while Mersana dressed and put on her boots, then helped Elisandra get the dress the rest of the way on.
"Now stay here and stay QUIET." Mersana said warningly, and Elisandra saw the worry enter Mersana's fëa, tinged very heavily with fear, and then the maid was off, walking back to camp. Elisandra sighed, and sat down to wait for Mersana's return. She tried her game of picking apart an animal's fëa, but there were no animals within sight. So she tried, instead, to see if she could spot the glow of fëa's that was the camp. Peering off the way Mersana had gone, she saw absolutely nothing for quite awhile, then, all of the sudden, as if her vision had suddenly improved, she saw a hefty glow of fëa's - a really hefty glow. It was undoubtedly the camp, but she didn't think is had glowed THAT much when she had been there. But perhaps another group of travelers had come down the road and had joined then camp while she and Mersana had been bathing.
Then, suddenly, one of the fëa's flickered and went out. Elisandra went completely still, knowing without a doubt that something was very, very wrong. The only way a fëa could flicker out like that was if its owner died, unless there was something she was completely unaware of. And the fëa that had flickered out was too large and complex to have been an animal's. The camp was being attacked. Elisandra knew it without a doubt, and opened her mouth to call to Mersana, but remembered the warning to stay quiet, and just after remembering that, realized that yelling for her maid to come back would not be a good thing if the camp was being attacked. Instead, Elisandra remained completely still, her eyes focused on the camp, and watched more and more fëa's flicker out. She dearly wished she could have differentiated between the fëa's, and found out who was winning, but they were blurry from this distance, just bits of light to her.
Still, instead of running or hiding like any sensible person would do, Elisandra remained fixated on the camp, watching the fëa's swirl and occasionally flicker and go out. And she continued to watch, with growing horror, as a new fëa entered her vision, approaching the camp. When it got close to the camp, it paused, and then started to run back the way it had come, only to suddenly fall, flicker, and go out.
Elisandra screamed - or at least, tried to. At the last moment, a hand suddenly clamped over her mouth, muffling the scream. As soon as Elisandra realized this, she stopped screaming and jerked away from the hand, preparing another scream. The scream died in her throat, however, as she caught sight of a hand - an actual hand, not the wisp that represented a hand in a fëa. Which meant Legolas. Or some other Elf, but following the hand up to the face quickly revealed that it was, indeed, Legolas.
"Screaming when there's a band of thirty or so Orcs less then a league away is not a very good idea!" Legolas hissed, and Elisandra's eyes widened in shock.
"Orcs?" she asked stupidly.
"Yes, Orcs!" Legolas spat. "They have been particularly bad near Isengard these past few years, which was why we were planning on crossing the mountains farther north. But it seems they have made their way farther east then we thought."
"So that is what you were all tense over..." Elisandra said.
"Yes, and apparently with good reason." Legolas said grimly. "The band is large, and mostly Uruk-Hai. The captain of the escort and I had a brief talk after the attack began, and we decided it was best for everyone to split up and get away as best they could, making their own way to either Rivendell or Minas Tirith. Gimli and I managed to get two of the horses to get away on. He is waiting off to the north."
"So we're just going to run?" Elisandra asked.
"There is nothing we can do. The Orc's will leave none who stay alive, and those that do live will have the best chance to continue doing so by running." Legolas said. "Believe me, I wish we were not running, but it is useless to fight when the battle is already lost. Now come, we need to get away as quickly as we can."
"OK, but hand me my boots first?" Elisandra said reluctantly, looking at the camp one last time. At Elisandra's question, Legolas seemed to notice, for the first time, what state her clothing was in, and smiled slightly.
"Get in a water fight?" he asked.
"Pushed my boots in so I could walk back barefoot and ended out splashing my dress." Elisandra said grumpily. "Boots please?" Legolas chuckled, and handed Elisandra her still sopping-wet boots, which she then proceeded to struggle with for several minutes until she got them on.
"Ew, wet boots." Elisandra said, making a face.
"Well, they are all you have now." Legolas said. "Come!" Then he set off through the forest, with Elisandra following behind as quickly as she could. After several minutes of jogging through the forest, Elisandra spotted Gimli and two horse's fëa's ahead. Legolas apparently spotted the horses and Gimli at the same time, and sped up slightly so that they reached them quite quickly. Legolas quickly helped Elisandra mount her horse, then jumped onto Arod and hauled Gimli up behind him. He then took Elisandra's reins, handed them to Gimli, spurred his horse into a trot, and they were off through the forest.
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Authors Note: Since you all had to wait so long for the last chapter, I figured I'd type up the next chapter as quickly as I could and get it up. So here you go - the chapter that shows how much fun it can be, and how manipulative one can be, when one can see someone's emotions. :)
Now that I've got you worried (if the chapter title didn't already do that) on to the chapter!
Oh, and hiccups are stupid...*hiccup* *growl*
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-No Eyes Needed-
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-Chapter XVI-
-And The Author Hums Innocently-
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Unfortunately for Elisandra, as the trip wore on, it became apparent that the only things to do to entertain herself was to talk to someone, or pick apart random creature's fëa's. Also unfortunately, there were very often no random creatures around, and after the first few days, nobody seemed to want to talk. In fact, after the first few days, everybody started acting rather oddly. They talked quietly, if at all, and alertness shone so brightly in their fëa's that it blocked out just about everything else. Even Mersana was on edge. This, naturally, gave Elisandra the feeling that there was something she hadn't been told. She decided, however, that instead of asking, she'd wait and see if someone would tell her what they were being so alert about. They didn't. So Elisandra took matters into her own hands.
Elisandra had to wait for several days until the perfect chance came one evening. While everyone was setting up the camp and preparing for supper, she went over to Mersana, who was doing some sort of needlework - Elisandra could only tell because most of her fëa was still except a small wisp representing her arm - and smiled at the maid sweetly. At first, Mersana didn't notice, but eventually glanced up as she felt someone staring at her. Seeing it was only Elisandra, she glanced back down at her work. Then, after a few more moments of Elisandra staring at her, she sighed and put down her needlework.
"What?" she asked, exasperation shining brightly in her fëa.
"I heard a waterfall shortly before we stopped. I want to take a bath." Elisandra replied.
"Now, Elisandra, you can't just go for a bath in any old pool." Mersana said. "You don't know what could be in the water."
"A few guppies and some bugs." Elisandra said. "I want a bath."
"I did not mean animals - the water could be unclean!" Mersana said scoldingly.
"Which is why there were animals living in it." Elisandra said sarcastically. "Really Mersana, you think I learned nothing from all those books I'm always having read to me? The water is perfectly clean. I have been traveling for over a week, getting dusty and dirty and sticky, and I want a bath!" Elisandra saw mixed emotions flicker through Mersana's fëa - worry and fear most prominent. Also a great lot of stubbornness. "Come on, I'm not used to traveling at all, and this traveling for so long without even being able to have a bath is just...ugh." Mersana seemed to be wavering a bit, but since Elisandra didn't really want a bath, but wanted them to tell her why they were all on such a high alert, she went over the top and batted her eyelashes at the maid.
"No!" Mersana said firmly. "This is not easy for me, either, but both of us must just get used to it! We cannot go off by ourselves, and certainly none of the guards will be able to accompany us to a bath!"
"But I REALLY want a bath! I can feel the dust coating my skin!" Elisandra complained. "Why can't we just go off by ourselves?"
"Because!" Mersana snapped.
"If you can't give me a better reason then that, I'll go whether I have your permission or not." Elisandra said sulkily. Mersana snorted in disbelief, but Elisandra saw the alarm that she would do just that shoot through Mersana's fëa.
"You would not be able to find your way to the pool, child, so that is an empty threat!" Mersana said, the alarm in her fëa disappearing with that realization.
"I know where the road is. I follow it back until I hear the waterfall, then follow the sound of the waterfall to the pool. Simple!" Elisandra said cheerfully. Alarm and disbelief shot through Mersana's fëa. Then protectiveness entered at full strength, and Elisandra watched with inward curiosity as she almost SAW Mersana digging her heals in and preparing to do anything to stop Elisandra from going to take a bath. Legolas, naturally, chose that moment to walk up.
"Is there a problem?" he asked, glancing between Elisandra and Mersana's faces and quickly figuring out something was going on.
"Mersana said I can't have a bath." Elisandra said flatly, watching Legolas' fëa for his response. But, surprisingly, at that moment, Legolas seemed to somehow cause all of his emotions to go completely blank, and Elisandra couldn't read them. Curiosity crept into Elisandra's face as to how he could do that, but then Legolas spoke, and she was pulled back to the argument at hand.
"And she is absolutely right." he said.
"Why?" Elisandra demanded. "It's not like we're in any danger! We're still in Gondor!" At that, Legolas glanced over at Mersana, and Elisandra saw a hidden conversation pass between them with different facial expressions on Legolas' part, and emotions flitting through Mersana's fëa.
"Even in the best of time, the basest of evils is never completely wiped out." Legolas said finally, turning back to Elisandra. She peered at him, trying to decipher what he meant, but she really had no clue, and his fëa was still, somehow, hidden from her.
"Look, if there is any danger, I will probably see it before any of you do. I can see any living thing; forests don't block my vision as badly as yours!" Elisandra said. Mersana opened her mouth to object, but Legolas silenced the maid with a look.
"Perhaps you are right, Elisandra." Legolas said smoothly, turning back to Elisandra, and she blinked. What could have them so on edge that they wouldn't even tell her what it was? But before she could wonder about it more, Mersana stood up, in a huff, and went over to Elisandra's tent to prepare their things for a bath. Legolas disappeared into his own tent, and his form immediately became blurry through the fabric, but Elisandra also saw the glow increase slightly, as if his emotions had re-entered his fëa.
It was only a few minutes later that Elisandra and Mersana waved goodbye to the guard on watch, and went off along the forest floor. And it wasn't long after that that Elisandra got thoroughly distracted from thinking about what danger everyone was hiding from her and how Legolas could hide his emotions from her by deciding that she wanted to walk barefoot over the forest floor. She had, after all, walked over nothing but carefully made paths all her life, and wanted to feel this new terrain under her feet. But Mersana staunchly refused to let Elisandra take off her boots - which were in the style of Aragorn's ranger boots, for practicality - and went on and on about how Elisandra could cut her foot or some such nonsense. The argument lasted all the way to the pool, where it became a moot point.
Sighing, Elisandra let Mersana help her strip out of her clothes and wade into the water. Then, as Mersana began to help bathe Elisandra, Elisandra began thinking. It really bothered her that Mersana and Legolas wouldn't tell her what they thought was so dangerous that they had to keep on constant alert. The fact that they wouldn't tell her only made her wonder if it was really that big a deal - but it had to be, since they were all on such high alert. So Elisandra ran through all the things she'd heard about that might be troubling the north eastern reaches of Gondor or southern reaches of Rohan, in hopes of figuring it out herself. But she'd been so caught up in this business about her father, she'd barely been in the courts at all, and had heard no news of the outside world for quite awhile. Inwardly scolding herself, Elisandra instead turned her mind to how Legolas could block her from being able to see his emotions like that, but just then Mersana tugged heavily on her hair.
"Ow, what was that for?" Elisandra asked crankily, rubbing the new sore spot on her head.
"Pay attention! You boasted that you would be able to spot any danger to us from far away because of your vision, so you should at least look!" Mersana scolded. "And besides that, since we're already here, I'm going to have a bath as soon as you're finished, which you basically are." Mersana then directed Elisandra to the bank, where she dried herself and then sat down to wait for Mersana to finish bathing. Remembering Mersana's scolding, she kept a watch on the surrounding forest, occasionally turning around to look back towards the camp.
On one such turning to look behind herself, the hand Elisandra was putting out to steady herself came into contact with her boots. Hearing a splash from Mersana in the pool, Elisandra suddenly got an idea. She grinned to herself, and then glanced at Mersana to make sure the maids back was turned before moving the boots to a more...precarious spot. Elisandra then hummed to herself as she looked around, continuing her watch as unusual, and waiting until Mersana finished her bath. As Mersana got out, Elisandra rose and - quite accidentally - knocked her boots into the water. Faking surprise, Elisandra's head whipped towards the sound.
"What was that?" she demanded of her maid. Mersana looked into the water, and exasperation entered her fëa for the second time that day as she saw what had made the noise.
"Your boots have fallen into the water." she said. "And look, the splashes have gotten your dress wet, as well!" Mersana muttered over this for a few moments, then spoke again. "Well, there's nothing for it, I guess. Put on the dress and stay here while I run back to the camp and get you another dress and a spare pair of shoes."
"I can walk back barefoot! The dress can't be that bad!" Elisandra protested.
"It IS that bad, as you'll discover when you put it on!" Mersana said, putting the dress in Elisandra's arms. Even without putting it on, Elisandra could feel very wet fabric on her arm, and sighed. One good plan gone awry. Elisandra fought to get the dress on - wet dresses were very un-co-operative - while Mersana dressed and put on her boots, then helped Elisandra get the dress the rest of the way on.
"Now stay here and stay QUIET." Mersana said warningly, and Elisandra saw the worry enter Mersana's fëa, tinged very heavily with fear, and then the maid was off, walking back to camp. Elisandra sighed, and sat down to wait for Mersana's return. She tried her game of picking apart an animal's fëa, but there were no animals within sight. So she tried, instead, to see if she could spot the glow of fëa's that was the camp. Peering off the way Mersana had gone, she saw absolutely nothing for quite awhile, then, all of the sudden, as if her vision had suddenly improved, she saw a hefty glow of fëa's - a really hefty glow. It was undoubtedly the camp, but she didn't think is had glowed THAT much when she had been there. But perhaps another group of travelers had come down the road and had joined then camp while she and Mersana had been bathing.
Then, suddenly, one of the fëa's flickered and went out. Elisandra went completely still, knowing without a doubt that something was very, very wrong. The only way a fëa could flicker out like that was if its owner died, unless there was something she was completely unaware of. And the fëa that had flickered out was too large and complex to have been an animal's. The camp was being attacked. Elisandra knew it without a doubt, and opened her mouth to call to Mersana, but remembered the warning to stay quiet, and just after remembering that, realized that yelling for her maid to come back would not be a good thing if the camp was being attacked. Instead, Elisandra remained completely still, her eyes focused on the camp, and watched more and more fëa's flicker out. She dearly wished she could have differentiated between the fëa's, and found out who was winning, but they were blurry from this distance, just bits of light to her.
Still, instead of running or hiding like any sensible person would do, Elisandra remained fixated on the camp, watching the fëa's swirl and occasionally flicker and go out. And she continued to watch, with growing horror, as a new fëa entered her vision, approaching the camp. When it got close to the camp, it paused, and then started to run back the way it had come, only to suddenly fall, flicker, and go out.
Elisandra screamed - or at least, tried to. At the last moment, a hand suddenly clamped over her mouth, muffling the scream. As soon as Elisandra realized this, she stopped screaming and jerked away from the hand, preparing another scream. The scream died in her throat, however, as she caught sight of a hand - an actual hand, not the wisp that represented a hand in a fëa. Which meant Legolas. Or some other Elf, but following the hand up to the face quickly revealed that it was, indeed, Legolas.
"Screaming when there's a band of thirty or so Orcs less then a league away is not a very good idea!" Legolas hissed, and Elisandra's eyes widened in shock.
"Orcs?" she asked stupidly.
"Yes, Orcs!" Legolas spat. "They have been particularly bad near Isengard these past few years, which was why we were planning on crossing the mountains farther north. But it seems they have made their way farther east then we thought."
"So that is what you were all tense over..." Elisandra said.
"Yes, and apparently with good reason." Legolas said grimly. "The band is large, and mostly Uruk-Hai. The captain of the escort and I had a brief talk after the attack began, and we decided it was best for everyone to split up and get away as best they could, making their own way to either Rivendell or Minas Tirith. Gimli and I managed to get two of the horses to get away on. He is waiting off to the north."
"So we're just going to run?" Elisandra asked.
"There is nothing we can do. The Orc's will leave none who stay alive, and those that do live will have the best chance to continue doing so by running." Legolas said. "Believe me, I wish we were not running, but it is useless to fight when the battle is already lost. Now come, we need to get away as quickly as we can."
"OK, but hand me my boots first?" Elisandra said reluctantly, looking at the camp one last time. At Elisandra's question, Legolas seemed to notice, for the first time, what state her clothing was in, and smiled slightly.
"Get in a water fight?" he asked.
"Pushed my boots in so I could walk back barefoot and ended out splashing my dress." Elisandra said grumpily. "Boots please?" Legolas chuckled, and handed Elisandra her still sopping-wet boots, which she then proceeded to struggle with for several minutes until she got them on.
"Ew, wet boots." Elisandra said, making a face.
"Well, they are all you have now." Legolas said. "Come!" Then he set off through the forest, with Elisandra following behind as quickly as she could. After several minutes of jogging through the forest, Elisandra spotted Gimli and two horse's fëa's ahead. Legolas apparently spotted the horses and Gimli at the same time, and sped up slightly so that they reached them quite quickly. Legolas quickly helped Elisandra mount her horse, then jumped onto Arod and hauled Gimli up behind him. He then took Elisandra's reins, handed them to Gimli, spurred his horse into a trot, and they were off through the forest.
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