Disclaimer: See previous chapters.
Authors Note: Random note - Real Person Slash combinations can be very amusing. I hardly ever read slash (I think I've read under half a dozen slash stories in my life) but just the pairings and summaries can be twice as amusing a normal humour fic...
Random Cute Elves go to bratprincess because she missed them while on vacation! And everybody can thank Diadora for her review which, when I was re-reading my reviews for the last chapter, gave me the idea for this chapter!
Also, since people seem to have commented about it in my little picture, I'm saying now that Elisandra's dress isn't actually that low cut. She's leaning forward slightly, and thus, more of her cleavage is shown then normal. Plus, it just gave another option for what Legolas is looking at if you have an easily amused and pervy mind like mine...
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-No Eyes Needed-
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-Chapter XXVIII-
-Underappreciated Dwarven Wisdom-
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The next day found Gimli stalking along a deserted corridor in Rivendell, thoroughly annoyed with Elves. Why was he annoyed with Elves? Because they built such confusing places that were so easy to get lost in, and once you got lost, there was never an Elf in sight to point you in the right direction, though before you'd gotten lost, the halls were always teaming with Elves. That also went with the annoying habits Elves had of coming into the library - where some people were trying to read - to TALK. In Elvish, too, usually.
Gimli snorted in annoyance as he turned a corner, and then abruptly stopped as he found himself face-to-waist with one of the elusive beings he'd been looking for. Looking up at the amused face of the elf he'd just about run into, Gimli discovered more things about Elves that annoyed him - their height, and their tendency to find humour in everything. In fact, that last annoying tendency was the whole reason he was out wandering the halls of Rivendell in the first place, Gimli reminded himself.
The elf had excused himself and was starting to move away, Gimli noted, and he pulled himself out of his annoyance long enough to ask the elf for directions. After getting an answer, he thanked the elf as politely as he could manage in his current state of annoyance, then turned and set off down the hall, following the directions. After only a few minutes of walking, Gimli once again found himself in familiar corridors, and not long after that, he reached his destination. He paused for a moment at the door he had been seeking, ordering his thoughts, and then knocked heavily. There was no answer, and Gimli knocked again. At that point, the next door down opened, and a head sporting by now familiar sky-blue hair appeared from the doorway. Celeborn looked slightly surprised at seeing that Gimli was the one knocking on his neighbors door, then smiled slightly as the dwarf looked at him in annoyance.
"He will not answer. He is still trying to get used to his hair." Celeborn said. "Just go in." Gimli arched an eyebrow at Celeborn's comment, but waited only until Celeborn had retreated back into his room before opening the door before him and stepping inside. Sure enough, the room was occupied, despite the lack of response to a knock.
"What do you want?" Haldir grumbled from where he sat sprawled in a chair as he saw who had entered his room. Gimli had to stop and think about what he wanted for a moment, his carefully ordered thoughts having scattered like leaves in the wind when he saw the bright pink hair Haldir now sported.
"I wish to speak with you." Gimli said, his voice gruff to hide his laughter.
"Speak, then." Haldir said curtly. Gimli arched an eyebrow, having hoped for an invitation to sit. But Haldir did not seem inclined to invite the Dwarf to sit, so Gimli went to the nearest seat and sat down without an invitation. Haldir's gaze was now a mix of curiosity and annoyance.
"I wish to speak with you about Elisandra." Gimli elaborated once he'd sat down.
"Oh?" Haldir arched an eyebrow.
"Indeed. She is young yet, and may not have noticed what I wish to discuss herself, but you, I know, are many times older than her - and me - and I am hoping that you have noticed this. Though I doubt it, as, even though you have spent more time around Elisandra these past few days than me, you have done nothing to alleviate the problem." Gimli said. Haldir's annoyance was now completely gone as he watched Gimli with curiosity, and Gimli knew that if he hadn't before, he now had the elf's full attention.
"What problem might this be?" Haldir asked.
"The problem that Elisandra has caused by so casually casting aside her relationships with the ones who raised her, only to pick up new relationships with you and Legolas." Gimli replied flatly, and Haldir's eyebrows rose a little in surprise, then furrowed slightly in thought.
"I would not say she has cast aside her relationships with those who raised her." Haldir said after a moment.
"She has." Gimli replied firmly. "Or have you not noticed how quickly Aragorn, Elladan or Elrohir excuse themselves from Elisandra's company when you arrive? Did you think they do so just to let the two of you get acquainted? They do not. They leave because they do not wish to stay to hear Elisandra calling another 'father', without even a thought. One can see it on their faces when they turn away." Haldir looked at the dwarf in surprise again, and as before, his surprise turned to thought, his mind sorting quickly through his memories, searching for anything to debunk what Gimli had said. He found nothing, however, and frowned slightly as he realized that, as loath as he was to admit such a thing, the dwarf was right. He was not going to admit such a thing out loud, however.
"And why are you speaking with me about this?" Haldir asked crossly.
"Elisandra and I, while friends of a sort, clash on serious subject matter. You, however, are her newly-found blood father." Gimli replied.
"So you wish me to speak with her about this." Haldir said slowly, and Gimli nodded.
"Aye." the dwarf said. "She would certainly listen more closely if it came from you than from me."
"I shall try, then." Haldir said after a moment, frowning thoughtfully, then suddenly sighed with exasperation as a light breeze coming from one of the windows blew some of his bright pink hair into his eyes. "Though it will be amazing indeed if ANYONE listens closely to me as long as my hair remains this...color." Gimli let himself chuckle, then.
"Everyone still listens to Lord Celeborn closely. I'm sure you'll manage." the dwarf said, standing up from his chair.
"Yes, but at least Lord Celeborn's hair is not so bright it hurts the eyes." Haldir grumbled, and Gimli chuckled once more as he left the room.
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Elisandra was walking through the gardens in the late afternoon, having just left the company of Legolas and Gimli, when she spotted a head of bright pink hair coming down the path towards her. With a smirk, she picked up her pace slightly, and soon arrived in front of Haldir. He scowled when he saw her smirk, and she quickly changed said smirk into an innocent grin.
"Nice hair, atar [father]." she said sweetly. Haldir merely gave her a warning look in response.
"We need to talk." he said.
"It was all Lord Celeborn." Elisandra replied promptly, and Haldir chuckled.
"Not about my hair. I shall have to have a talk with Lord Celeborn about that later." he said.
"Then what do you wish to talk with me about?" Elisandra asked curiously.
"Many things." Haldir replied vaguely. "But first, let us go someplace more comfortable than the middle of a garden path."
"There's a nice garden with a bench in it not to far from here." Elisandra said, now thoroughly curious.
"Good enough." Haldir said, offering Elisandra his arm, and she took it and led him off down the path. After a few minutes of walking, she turned off onto a small side path, and then it was only a short bit of walking before the two passed through some bushes and came upon a small glade with a bench off to one side, underneath an ancient oak tree. The ground was covered with grass and occasional patches of flowers, all waving slightly in a gentle breeze. Haldir smiled slightly as he looked around.
"I think you spend far too much time walking in the gardens to have found such a place as this so quickly." he said, knowing that small glades like this, while scattered all around Rivendell, were very hard to find - most were built for or by the order of Celebrían, and she had liked her privacy. Especially when she went out on picnics with her lord. Haldir hid his smirk quickly as Elisandra replied to his comment.
"Mmm, if I had found it, I would agree with you. But Legolas was the one to show me this particular glade." Elisandra replied. Haldir arched an eyebrow at that, and decided he didn't even want to know why Elisandra was now smiling dreamily. There were some things no parents ever wanted to know. He did, however, make a mental note to talk to Legolas soon about this commonly known thing called marriage. He could probably get Aragorn to help him with that little chat, too.
"So what did you wish to talk about?" Elisandra asked suddenly, pulling herself from her thoughts and sitting down on the bench underneath the oak tree. Haldir joined her for a moment, frowning slightly in thought.
"Aragorn, Elladan and Elrohir." he said after a moment. Elisandra's mood shifted visibly, knowing exactly what one of the things about the three he would wish to talk to her about.
"They deserved it." she said testily, and Haldir nodded.
"That I will not deny." he said. "But you have not spoken with them about WHY they did it, and they, as well as I, felt that you should at least hear that, so you hold no grudge towards them."
"I don't hold a grudge towards them." Elisandra said irritably. Haldir arched an eyebrow, but chose not to contradict.
"Of course not. Still, you need to know why they put Legolas in that boat." Haldir said.
"And why is that?" Elisandra asked, shifting in her seat, clearly uncomfortable with the subject.
"Because they wished to make sure he was good enough for you." Haldir replied flatly.
"What?" Elisandra asked incredulously. "But...they've known him for ages; they know what he's done in his life! Why on Middle-earth would they want to put him bound and blindfolded in a boat just to find out if he was good enough for me? He was one of the Nine Walkers, for Eru's sake!"
"Ah yes, but he did not do any of his previous deeds for YOU." Haldir replied with a smile, and Elisandra looked at him in surprise. "Elrohir, Elladan and Aragorn wished to make sure that Legolas would do anything for you."
"Couldn't they just ask him?" Elisandra asked in confusion, and Haldir grinned with amusement.
"Elrohir, Elladan and Aragorn ask Legolas about his feelings for you?" he asked, then chuckled. Elisandra blinked, and then chuckled as well.
"Alright, that would be a rather improbable event." she said, and Haldir nodded. "But still, did they have to put him in a boat, bound and blindfolded?"
"Of course." Haldir said smoothly. "They know he could get back to shore by sunset when just stuck in a boat, blindfolded, with no paddle. They had to make it somewhat harder." Elisandra blinked in surprise.
"And how did they know he could do that?" she asked.
"This is not the first time Legolas has been sent down the river." Haldir replied dryly, and at Elisandra's arched eyebrow of disbelief, Haldir elaborated. "Elrohir, Elladan and Aragorn are all dear friends of Legolas', but they also love to use him as a victim. They have claimed it is to keep him from getting a swelled head."
"Ah." Elisandra said.
"Yes. Ah." Haldir replied with a smile, and then went somber again. "They probably would not have sent Legolas down the river this second time, though, if it had not been for your actions."
"My actions?" Elisandra asked in surprise. "You mean my relationship with Legolas?"
"No. Well, not exactly." Haldir said, and paused to arrange what he was going to say. "I mean your actions in how, almost as soon as you left Gondor, you put behind all the relationships of your past, those with the ones who have raised you since childhood, for new ones, with Legolas, Gimli, and with me."
"What?" Elisandra asked, thoroughly confused, and Haldir sighed in frustration, mumbling something along the lines of 'damn dwarves'.
"Elisandra, did you ever once stop to think how your suddenly ceasing to call Aragorn your father would affect him?" Haldir asked after a moment. Elisandra just looked at him for a moment, and then a worried look crossed her face.
"I...no." she admitted finally, blushing furiously. "I...guess I'm just so used to seeing people's emotions right before me, that even now when I can no longer see fëa's, I don't really...stop to think about others emotions all that much." Haldir smiling softly.
"I understand, but you need to start thinking about the emotions of others." he said. "You must learn that while fëa's do not lie about someone's emotions, it is very easy for one to hide their true emotions when you can only see their outward appearance."
"So how should I go about learning to read people's true emotions without having to close my eyes to look at their fëa's?" Elisandra asked, and Haldir chuckled.
"Elisandra, yendë [daughter], no matter how much you try, you will never be able to read anyone's emotions as easily with your eyes open as with them closed. Lady Galadriel was perhaps the only one who managed to even approach the type of reading of a person that you can do with your eyes closed, but even she could not tell the character of someone with a simple glance." Haldir said gently. "You can learn, however, to tell the emotions of others as well as anyone else here; if you ever wish to see more, you can always close your eyes and look at someone's fëa."
"Right." Elisandra said, already looking thoughtful.
"You might want to apologize to Aragorn, as well." Haldir added, and Elisandra distractedly nodded. They sat in silence for a moment longer, Haldir enjoying to peace of the garden, Elisandra deep in thought.
"I am slightly confused by something." Elisandra said abruptly.
"What's that?" Haldir asked.
"You said that I had left my old relationships behind, yet you have only talked about Aragorn. And anyways, I have not left my relationship with Elladan and Elrohir behind, nor with mother." Elisandra replied, frowning in confusion.
"Ask the dwarf about those ones." Haldir said with a snort, and Elisandra arched an eyebrow at him.
"Why ask the dwarf?" she asked.
"Because, though it pains me to admit it, he was the one who noticed the damage your mistake with Aragorn was causing." Haldir replied. "Though that did spur me into talking with Aragorn and the twins about why they put Legolas in that boat." Elisandra looked at Haldir in surprise, then chuckled.
"Damn dwarves - always more observant then you think. I haven't even spent that much time around him these past few days." she said, and Haldir smiled.
"Or maybe it's just more obvious than we who are closer to the matter think." he said. Elisandra paused for a moment, thinking that over, then shook her head.
"Nah. He's just been hiding his ability to read people all these years." she said with a grin.
"Perhaps we should go confront him?" Haldir suggested with a grin.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Elisandra said, with a mischievous gleam in her eyes. "He said something about heading for the library when I last saw him..."
"That Dwarf is always in the library!" Haldir muttered as the two of them stood up.
"I know." Elisandra said with a frown as she took Haldir's offered arm again and they left the garden. "Remind me to ask him why after I've asked him about Elladan and Elrohir and his hidden ability to read people."
"Will do!" Haldir replied cheerfully, and they set off to find Gimli, thinking up as many complicated and confusing questions to ask him when they got there as they could.
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Authors Note: Random note - Real Person Slash combinations can be very amusing. I hardly ever read slash (I think I've read under half a dozen slash stories in my life) but just the pairings and summaries can be twice as amusing a normal humour fic...
Random Cute Elves go to bratprincess because she missed them while on vacation! And everybody can thank Diadora for her review which, when I was re-reading my reviews for the last chapter, gave me the idea for this chapter!
Also, since people seem to have commented about it in my little picture, I'm saying now that Elisandra's dress isn't actually that low cut. She's leaning forward slightly, and thus, more of her cleavage is shown then normal. Plus, it just gave another option for what Legolas is looking at if you have an easily amused and pervy mind like mine...
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-No Eyes Needed-
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-Chapter XXVIII-
-Underappreciated Dwarven Wisdom-
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The next day found Gimli stalking along a deserted corridor in Rivendell, thoroughly annoyed with Elves. Why was he annoyed with Elves? Because they built such confusing places that were so easy to get lost in, and once you got lost, there was never an Elf in sight to point you in the right direction, though before you'd gotten lost, the halls were always teaming with Elves. That also went with the annoying habits Elves had of coming into the library - where some people were trying to read - to TALK. In Elvish, too, usually.
Gimli snorted in annoyance as he turned a corner, and then abruptly stopped as he found himself face-to-waist with one of the elusive beings he'd been looking for. Looking up at the amused face of the elf he'd just about run into, Gimli discovered more things about Elves that annoyed him - their height, and their tendency to find humour in everything. In fact, that last annoying tendency was the whole reason he was out wandering the halls of Rivendell in the first place, Gimli reminded himself.
The elf had excused himself and was starting to move away, Gimli noted, and he pulled himself out of his annoyance long enough to ask the elf for directions. After getting an answer, he thanked the elf as politely as he could manage in his current state of annoyance, then turned and set off down the hall, following the directions. After only a few minutes of walking, Gimli once again found himself in familiar corridors, and not long after that, he reached his destination. He paused for a moment at the door he had been seeking, ordering his thoughts, and then knocked heavily. There was no answer, and Gimli knocked again. At that point, the next door down opened, and a head sporting by now familiar sky-blue hair appeared from the doorway. Celeborn looked slightly surprised at seeing that Gimli was the one knocking on his neighbors door, then smiled slightly as the dwarf looked at him in annoyance.
"He will not answer. He is still trying to get used to his hair." Celeborn said. "Just go in." Gimli arched an eyebrow at Celeborn's comment, but waited only until Celeborn had retreated back into his room before opening the door before him and stepping inside. Sure enough, the room was occupied, despite the lack of response to a knock.
"What do you want?" Haldir grumbled from where he sat sprawled in a chair as he saw who had entered his room. Gimli had to stop and think about what he wanted for a moment, his carefully ordered thoughts having scattered like leaves in the wind when he saw the bright pink hair Haldir now sported.
"I wish to speak with you." Gimli said, his voice gruff to hide his laughter.
"Speak, then." Haldir said curtly. Gimli arched an eyebrow, having hoped for an invitation to sit. But Haldir did not seem inclined to invite the Dwarf to sit, so Gimli went to the nearest seat and sat down without an invitation. Haldir's gaze was now a mix of curiosity and annoyance.
"I wish to speak with you about Elisandra." Gimli elaborated once he'd sat down.
"Oh?" Haldir arched an eyebrow.
"Indeed. She is young yet, and may not have noticed what I wish to discuss herself, but you, I know, are many times older than her - and me - and I am hoping that you have noticed this. Though I doubt it, as, even though you have spent more time around Elisandra these past few days than me, you have done nothing to alleviate the problem." Gimli said. Haldir's annoyance was now completely gone as he watched Gimli with curiosity, and Gimli knew that if he hadn't before, he now had the elf's full attention.
"What problem might this be?" Haldir asked.
"The problem that Elisandra has caused by so casually casting aside her relationships with the ones who raised her, only to pick up new relationships with you and Legolas." Gimli replied flatly, and Haldir's eyebrows rose a little in surprise, then furrowed slightly in thought.
"I would not say she has cast aside her relationships with those who raised her." Haldir said after a moment.
"She has." Gimli replied firmly. "Or have you not noticed how quickly Aragorn, Elladan or Elrohir excuse themselves from Elisandra's company when you arrive? Did you think they do so just to let the two of you get acquainted? They do not. They leave because they do not wish to stay to hear Elisandra calling another 'father', without even a thought. One can see it on their faces when they turn away." Haldir looked at the dwarf in surprise again, and as before, his surprise turned to thought, his mind sorting quickly through his memories, searching for anything to debunk what Gimli had said. He found nothing, however, and frowned slightly as he realized that, as loath as he was to admit such a thing, the dwarf was right. He was not going to admit such a thing out loud, however.
"And why are you speaking with me about this?" Haldir asked crossly.
"Elisandra and I, while friends of a sort, clash on serious subject matter. You, however, are her newly-found blood father." Gimli replied.
"So you wish me to speak with her about this." Haldir said slowly, and Gimli nodded.
"Aye." the dwarf said. "She would certainly listen more closely if it came from you than from me."
"I shall try, then." Haldir said after a moment, frowning thoughtfully, then suddenly sighed with exasperation as a light breeze coming from one of the windows blew some of his bright pink hair into his eyes. "Though it will be amazing indeed if ANYONE listens closely to me as long as my hair remains this...color." Gimli let himself chuckle, then.
"Everyone still listens to Lord Celeborn closely. I'm sure you'll manage." the dwarf said, standing up from his chair.
"Yes, but at least Lord Celeborn's hair is not so bright it hurts the eyes." Haldir grumbled, and Gimli chuckled once more as he left the room.
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Elisandra was walking through the gardens in the late afternoon, having just left the company of Legolas and Gimli, when she spotted a head of bright pink hair coming down the path towards her. With a smirk, she picked up her pace slightly, and soon arrived in front of Haldir. He scowled when he saw her smirk, and she quickly changed said smirk into an innocent grin.
"Nice hair, atar [father]." she said sweetly. Haldir merely gave her a warning look in response.
"We need to talk." he said.
"It was all Lord Celeborn." Elisandra replied promptly, and Haldir chuckled.
"Not about my hair. I shall have to have a talk with Lord Celeborn about that later." he said.
"Then what do you wish to talk with me about?" Elisandra asked curiously.
"Many things." Haldir replied vaguely. "But first, let us go someplace more comfortable than the middle of a garden path."
"There's a nice garden with a bench in it not to far from here." Elisandra said, now thoroughly curious.
"Good enough." Haldir said, offering Elisandra his arm, and she took it and led him off down the path. After a few minutes of walking, she turned off onto a small side path, and then it was only a short bit of walking before the two passed through some bushes and came upon a small glade with a bench off to one side, underneath an ancient oak tree. The ground was covered with grass and occasional patches of flowers, all waving slightly in a gentle breeze. Haldir smiled slightly as he looked around.
"I think you spend far too much time walking in the gardens to have found such a place as this so quickly." he said, knowing that small glades like this, while scattered all around Rivendell, were very hard to find - most were built for or by the order of Celebrían, and she had liked her privacy. Especially when she went out on picnics with her lord. Haldir hid his smirk quickly as Elisandra replied to his comment.
"Mmm, if I had found it, I would agree with you. But Legolas was the one to show me this particular glade." Elisandra replied. Haldir arched an eyebrow at that, and decided he didn't even want to know why Elisandra was now smiling dreamily. There were some things no parents ever wanted to know. He did, however, make a mental note to talk to Legolas soon about this commonly known thing called marriage. He could probably get Aragorn to help him with that little chat, too.
"So what did you wish to talk about?" Elisandra asked suddenly, pulling herself from her thoughts and sitting down on the bench underneath the oak tree. Haldir joined her for a moment, frowning slightly in thought.
"Aragorn, Elladan and Elrohir." he said after a moment. Elisandra's mood shifted visibly, knowing exactly what one of the things about the three he would wish to talk to her about.
"They deserved it." she said testily, and Haldir nodded.
"That I will not deny." he said. "But you have not spoken with them about WHY they did it, and they, as well as I, felt that you should at least hear that, so you hold no grudge towards them."
"I don't hold a grudge towards them." Elisandra said irritably. Haldir arched an eyebrow, but chose not to contradict.
"Of course not. Still, you need to know why they put Legolas in that boat." Haldir said.
"And why is that?" Elisandra asked, shifting in her seat, clearly uncomfortable with the subject.
"Because they wished to make sure he was good enough for you." Haldir replied flatly.
"What?" Elisandra asked incredulously. "But...they've known him for ages; they know what he's done in his life! Why on Middle-earth would they want to put him bound and blindfolded in a boat just to find out if he was good enough for me? He was one of the Nine Walkers, for Eru's sake!"
"Ah yes, but he did not do any of his previous deeds for YOU." Haldir replied with a smile, and Elisandra looked at him in surprise. "Elrohir, Elladan and Aragorn wished to make sure that Legolas would do anything for you."
"Couldn't they just ask him?" Elisandra asked in confusion, and Haldir grinned with amusement.
"Elrohir, Elladan and Aragorn ask Legolas about his feelings for you?" he asked, then chuckled. Elisandra blinked, and then chuckled as well.
"Alright, that would be a rather improbable event." she said, and Haldir nodded. "But still, did they have to put him in a boat, bound and blindfolded?"
"Of course." Haldir said smoothly. "They know he could get back to shore by sunset when just stuck in a boat, blindfolded, with no paddle. They had to make it somewhat harder." Elisandra blinked in surprise.
"And how did they know he could do that?" she asked.
"This is not the first time Legolas has been sent down the river." Haldir replied dryly, and at Elisandra's arched eyebrow of disbelief, Haldir elaborated. "Elrohir, Elladan and Aragorn are all dear friends of Legolas', but they also love to use him as a victim. They have claimed it is to keep him from getting a swelled head."
"Ah." Elisandra said.
"Yes. Ah." Haldir replied with a smile, and then went somber again. "They probably would not have sent Legolas down the river this second time, though, if it had not been for your actions."
"My actions?" Elisandra asked in surprise. "You mean my relationship with Legolas?"
"No. Well, not exactly." Haldir said, and paused to arrange what he was going to say. "I mean your actions in how, almost as soon as you left Gondor, you put behind all the relationships of your past, those with the ones who have raised you since childhood, for new ones, with Legolas, Gimli, and with me."
"What?" Elisandra asked, thoroughly confused, and Haldir sighed in frustration, mumbling something along the lines of 'damn dwarves'.
"Elisandra, did you ever once stop to think how your suddenly ceasing to call Aragorn your father would affect him?" Haldir asked after a moment. Elisandra just looked at him for a moment, and then a worried look crossed her face.
"I...no." she admitted finally, blushing furiously. "I...guess I'm just so used to seeing people's emotions right before me, that even now when I can no longer see fëa's, I don't really...stop to think about others emotions all that much." Haldir smiling softly.
"I understand, but you need to start thinking about the emotions of others." he said. "You must learn that while fëa's do not lie about someone's emotions, it is very easy for one to hide their true emotions when you can only see their outward appearance."
"So how should I go about learning to read people's true emotions without having to close my eyes to look at their fëa's?" Elisandra asked, and Haldir chuckled.
"Elisandra, yendë [daughter], no matter how much you try, you will never be able to read anyone's emotions as easily with your eyes open as with them closed. Lady Galadriel was perhaps the only one who managed to even approach the type of reading of a person that you can do with your eyes closed, but even she could not tell the character of someone with a simple glance." Haldir said gently. "You can learn, however, to tell the emotions of others as well as anyone else here; if you ever wish to see more, you can always close your eyes and look at someone's fëa."
"Right." Elisandra said, already looking thoughtful.
"You might want to apologize to Aragorn, as well." Haldir added, and Elisandra distractedly nodded. They sat in silence for a moment longer, Haldir enjoying to peace of the garden, Elisandra deep in thought.
"I am slightly confused by something." Elisandra said abruptly.
"What's that?" Haldir asked.
"You said that I had left my old relationships behind, yet you have only talked about Aragorn. And anyways, I have not left my relationship with Elladan and Elrohir behind, nor with mother." Elisandra replied, frowning in confusion.
"Ask the dwarf about those ones." Haldir said with a snort, and Elisandra arched an eyebrow at him.
"Why ask the dwarf?" she asked.
"Because, though it pains me to admit it, he was the one who noticed the damage your mistake with Aragorn was causing." Haldir replied. "Though that did spur me into talking with Aragorn and the twins about why they put Legolas in that boat." Elisandra looked at Haldir in surprise, then chuckled.
"Damn dwarves - always more observant then you think. I haven't even spent that much time around him these past few days." she said, and Haldir smiled.
"Or maybe it's just more obvious than we who are closer to the matter think." he said. Elisandra paused for a moment, thinking that over, then shook her head.
"Nah. He's just been hiding his ability to read people all these years." she said with a grin.
"Perhaps we should go confront him?" Haldir suggested with a grin.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Elisandra said, with a mischievous gleam in her eyes. "He said something about heading for the library when I last saw him..."
"That Dwarf is always in the library!" Haldir muttered as the two of them stood up.
"I know." Elisandra said with a frown as she took Haldir's offered arm again and they left the garden. "Remind me to ask him why after I've asked him about Elladan and Elrohir and his hidden ability to read people."
"Will do!" Haldir replied cheerfully, and they set off to find Gimli, thinking up as many complicated and confusing questions to ask him when they got there as they could.
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