Reiya picked at her dinner, too preoccupied with her thoughts to eat. She looked out the window, her anxiety growing as the sun started setting. "Laya.you know that talk of yours about other worlds?"

Laya looked up and after swallowing a mouthful of salad replied, " Yes.Rey are you going to start criticizing it again?"

Reiya shook her head. "No, I won't. I was wondering if there are other worlds. how do you suppose you get to them?"

Laya raised a finally trimmed eyebrow at her sister. "Your not starting to believe me are you?"

Reiya shook her head. "No of course not, I just wanted to know your ideas on that."

"Well," Laya took a small bite of her salad contemplating her answer. "You could just walk in into it and not know it, or you could be transported there, or someone from that place could come to get you, or-"

Reiya held up her hand. "I'm sorry I asked. I don't know where you get these crazy ideas."

Laya pointed to the bookshelves lining the wall in the living room. "No more books for you." Reiya said as she stood up and started clearing the table off.

Laya grinned and helped her sister clear off the table then walked over to her bookshelves looking them over as if she were about to read one.

"How bout we go for a walk in the woods; we haven't done that in a while. "

Laya turned around, her eyes wide with surprise. "You never want to go near those woods. You always had some kind of phobia about that place. Why now?"

Reiya shrugged and pulled the sliding glass door open. "Maybe I want to conquer my fears." She walked outside, barefoot per usual, and started walking down to the woods.

"Or maybe there's another reason." Laya mumbled as she followed her sister.

They walked down to the woods in silence both thinking opposite thoughts. Laya looked over at her sister. She had not been acting like herself lately, very distant, not unlike when Laya herself was daydreaming. What was she thinking about?

Reiya stopped at the first row of trees that lined the forest and turne to look back at the house. It would be the last time she would ever see it. The last time she would see the tree that Laya split in half. The last time.anything. She looked at her sister who was watching her intently. "I'm just.slightly nervous about this." She said, feeling as if she needed to explain herself.

Laya raised a blonde eyebrow. "About what?" She thought. "Its only a walk in the woods." Aloud she said, " I've been in this forest more times than I can count." Reiya continued to stare at the forest for a few more minutes, took a breath, and walked into the forest.

Laya followed her sister, puzzled over her strange actions. It seemed like more than apprehension. It had also been awhile since Laya had had a deep conversation with her sister so Laya had no answer to Reiya's actions.

Laya looked up at the full moon, now at it's highest in the sky. It seemed to glow more brilliantly than it ever had and, if she would actually admit it, looked a light shade of silver. She turned to her sister to comment on the moon but stopped when she saw Reiya leaning against a very large tree watching her intently. "Reiya?"

"Do you think you can walk into another world?"

Laya blinked, surprised at the eerie calmness the question was asked in. "What?"

Reiya looked around then back at Laya. "Do you think that you can walk into another world with no problem?"

Laya looked down at the ground then back up to see her sister slipping off farther into the forest. "Reiya! Wait, where are you going?!" She ran after her sister but it seemed that Reiya was running faster than normal and was slowly turning into a small speck before Laya completely lost sight of her. "Reiya!" She called out frantically, wondering what was going on.

Laya started to panic as she continued to run, however the sight of her sister never returned. She continued to run through the darkened forest going deeper and deeper into it. Laya herself was starting to feel afraid but fear for her sister pushed her farther into the wooded area.

It seemed that almost in an instant a yellowy glow could be seen far off in the distance. Laya slowed as she approached the glow and as she crept closer she realized the glow was a fire. And gathered around the fire were four very handsome men, laughing and talking in a strange language she had never heard yet understood.

Laya quietly moved behind a tree to observe them. They all had long blonde hair, their faces seemed to glow with life, they wore very strange clothes, seemed to emanate grace and serenity, and the tip of their ears were pointed. Laya gasped as she saw this last fact and quickly turned to leave hoping they hadn't heard her. However as she turned to slip away, she ran into a solid force that she knew hadn't been there before. As she stepped back and looked up, she gasped, realizing that this solid force was one of the men that had been around the fire. He was absolutely gorgeous with his gleaming blonde hair, deep blue eyes, and the confidence in his stance.

Laya blushed realizing he was speaking and she had been admiring him instead of listening. "I'm sorry.I wasn't paying attention. Can you please repeat yourself."

He studied her before repeating himself. "I asked if it was a common thing for female elves of Lorien to spy on elves that are not of this wood."

Laya continued to stare at him confused, his words running through her mind. "Elves of Lorien? I'm an elf? Or either he thinks I'm an elf. But wait, Elves are only mythical creatures; this must be some joke. Reiya! She must have had something to do with this, this is why she ran away so fast.she's only trying to get me to stop thinking illogically I bet." Laya looked up at the handsome man or elf or whatever he was. "Who are you?"

He smiled, showing a row of perfectly straight, white teeth, and bowed low. "My name is Legolas of Mirkwood."

Laya suddenly turned pale and the feeling of dizziness overcame her. "This can't be possible. You can't be real." She whispered to one in particular. "This is only a story." However when she looked back up at him she knew that it wasn't and as her world turned black, collapsed in his arms.