Luck Ain't No Lady
Haldir was by far the most stern and most...well arrogant one of the group. His very nature made Amanda want to pick on him until he cried. So her methods for getting information from him were different and somewhat less friendly then our own. Instead of charming it out of him, or conniving it out of him, she decided to play it out of him. Blackjack and booze were the tools she used. And the most surprising thing about the whole situation was it worked. Sure she cheated at Blackjack and she gave him more whiskey than any normal man could possibly hold but she got a doozey of a secret out of him. This was the secret to end all secrets. This secret would well change all of our lives forever. It would also make us very cranky. You see all of our lives, my sister and I didn't have a father. We never met him or got a call or so much as received a single birthday card from him. He just disappeared. And there's a very good reason for that, he was in Middle Earth being a wizard. That's right, Gandalf is our father. That's the big secret that Haldir told Amanda. That's why Aragorn got angry at Gandalf when he tried to see if we had heard of or seen this orb thing, because he felt that he was putting his daughters in undue danger. But wait there's more!! Amanda's crazy mom, as it turns out, wasn't her real mom. Her father was Radagast the Brown is another wizard and Gandalf are cousins. She is related to us. This whole thing was getting too complicated. After finding this out, Amanda pretty much left the intoxicated elf on his own to tell us the news. Needless to say we were peeved. After all these years our father was some wizard from an alternate dimension. We spent much of the time after the shock wore off, piecing together the information we had gathered. The situation was as follows; our long lost father and his friends came from another dimension to stop an apocalypse that he kinda started. Elves, Dwarves, Dragons and Hobbits were real. When push came to shove. Despite the anger and hurt three-fourths of us were feeling, we knew that we couldn't just sit back and not help them save our world and stop this Saruman guy. Swallowing our pride was the only way to get things together and a plan worked out before it was to late. I knew this but I couldn't help feeling that we hadn't been as lucky as we first thought.
Haldir was by far the most stern and most...well arrogant one of the group. His very nature made Amanda want to pick on him until he cried. So her methods for getting information from him were different and somewhat less friendly then our own. Instead of charming it out of him, or conniving it out of him, she decided to play it out of him. Blackjack and booze were the tools she used. And the most surprising thing about the whole situation was it worked. Sure she cheated at Blackjack and she gave him more whiskey than any normal man could possibly hold but she got a doozey of a secret out of him. This was the secret to end all secrets. This secret would well change all of our lives forever. It would also make us very cranky. You see all of our lives, my sister and I didn't have a father. We never met him or got a call or so much as received a single birthday card from him. He just disappeared. And there's a very good reason for that, he was in Middle Earth being a wizard. That's right, Gandalf is our father. That's the big secret that Haldir told Amanda. That's why Aragorn got angry at Gandalf when he tried to see if we had heard of or seen this orb thing, because he felt that he was putting his daughters in undue danger. But wait there's more!! Amanda's crazy mom, as it turns out, wasn't her real mom. Her father was Radagast the Brown is another wizard and Gandalf are cousins. She is related to us. This whole thing was getting too complicated. After finding this out, Amanda pretty much left the intoxicated elf on his own to tell us the news. Needless to say we were peeved. After all these years our father was some wizard from an alternate dimension. We spent much of the time after the shock wore off, piecing together the information we had gathered. The situation was as follows; our long lost father and his friends came from another dimension to stop an apocalypse that he kinda started. Elves, Dwarves, Dragons and Hobbits were real. When push came to shove. Despite the anger and hurt three-fourths of us were feeling, we knew that we couldn't just sit back and not help them save our world and stop this Saruman guy. Swallowing our pride was the only way to get things together and a plan worked out before it was to late. I knew this but I couldn't help feeling that we hadn't been as lucky as we first thought.