The next morning was convention day. She started early, wearing a light pea jacket and scarlet t-shirt with the words "FIERY ELF" printed on it, and jeans. Topping her style was a knitted black and white beret. Her long black hair - recently rebonded - flowed like silk, she was asian and proud of it.

As she approached the area, it reminded her of a fair, like the ones she saw on tv, there were booths, and small shops, as well as an exhibit, and in the center of it all was the set of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. It was like a dream, but better, Joan was welcomed by a nice looking half asian half irish girl, she recognized her voice, " Elbereth?" The girl looked at Joan and a bit puzzled, she smiled but questions were all over her face, " It's me! Narya!" __________________

Keira was nervous but you couldn't tell that she was. *Well here goes* she thought to herself as she walked into the area. She had decided to wear a black short sleeve shirt, on the front was a picture of Merry holding up a broken carrot (from the shortcut to mushrooms scene), and on the back in red letters was the phrase "I think I've broken something". Her jeans were worn out at the knees, and she had on a pair of red and black sandals. Her brown hair was up in a twisted bun.

She made her way over to a group of people, that were having a conversation about Merry and Pippin. 'Hello' . a guy with blonde hair that was wearing a dark blue jacket said looking at Keira 'Merry fan eh' he added. Keira looked down at her shirt, then laughed feeling rather stupid that she forgot what shirt she was wearing. ' Can't ya tell' she said smiling. 'Cool me too' he said unzipping his jacket to reveal a dark blue shirt, with the word merry written across it in royal blue letters.

'So what's your name' he asked Keira 'It's Keira but all my friends call me Keir' 'Cool my names Kyle, i'm from Ontario, Canada, you' 'Oh umm, Hawaii'

After talking a little bit longer they both decided to go talk to other people, visit the booths and look in the shops __________________

After getting dropped off at the convention site and tossing a farewell at his uncle, Nick stomped around, looking for anything interesting. He mostly saw what looked like geeks talking about the huge books he didn't have the attention span to read. Starting to wonder what made him ask to come here in the first place, he almost pulled his cellular phone out to call his uncle, but was attracted to a table full of merchandise. Since he'd love surprising his friends with yet more reasons to ignore his obvious deficiency in intellect, he bought roughly twenty-seven thousand (not really) shirts and caps and posters and things. Nick then yawned and looked down at what were mostly a bunch of little geeks around him. "Now what?" __________________

Ted and Joe walked side-by-side across the crowded gravel walkways of the Tolkien Convention. Every now and then they would stop at a booth to gawk and discuss certain items that caught their attention, but most often they were too involved in an animated discussion about lightspeed to even notice anything else. Ted had been meeting friends all day and was hungering for some good, deep conversation. Joe fit right into that mold.