This girl... was..me!
How was that possible?
Was I still asleep?
I pinched myself, hard.
Ouch. Definitely not a dream.
"First things first." I said out loud. "This girl must be buried. As I am the only one here, I suppose I must bury her."
Luckily, a shallow trench was already dug nearby. I widened and deepened it with a long branch I found. The hard part was getting the women to the grave. I gritted my teeth and put my arms around the girl. She was surprisingly light. I lowered her slowly, saying a few word out of respect for the dead. Even though I had never really met her, I felt that I owed my reflection something.
"Good bye," I said, turning on my heel.
Leaned against a nearby tree was a goldeny maple longbow. I sighed. At least there was one weapon I knew how to use. Next to it was a quiver full of gold-and-green-feathered arrows. Well made, I could tell.
"Aurora! Where are you?" I heard a matronly voice through the trees. "You need to meet the prince- remember he's coming today!"
A woman in brown and white came puffing through the trees. Upon seeing me she paused, and came rushing toward me.
"Aura! What in the name of Manwë are you doing all the way out here?"
"I-I-I- was." I stammered. However, the women seemed not to notice.
"The prince is coming today! You need to get ready-you shouldn't be wandering all the way out here- I heard Elrohir saying only yesterday that this was the most common place for orcs! Really, my darling, this is not good! You might have been ambushed, and without your friends...."
She sheparded me off to the right, tutting all the way.
"Come on, come on, you need to get dressed, you need to look nice for the prince-he is you r future husband of course!" She tucked a strand of brown hair behind an ear, and I noticed that hers too were pointed.
We soon reached a settlement on a rushing river. The matronly women led me to a room directly off a courtyard. I started to protest, but decided against it. Someone was actually paying attention to me. This was too good to pass up-and even if I did leave, where would I go? The people in this settlement looked much like me, and had no idea if I would be noticed as 'different' anywhere else.
"Now, would you rather be wearing the sea green or the ruby red when he arrives? Obviously, for the ball you will change into the royal violet-but which would you prefer?"
"Sea green." I responded automatically.
"With...silver jewelry, I think." She said, bustling over to a chest in the corner and lifting out a dress of my favorite color silk.
"Now, you just put this on, I'll see if I can find your aquamarine pendant for you to wear. Go on, go on!" she said, shooing me into a side chamber.
I put on the dress. It truly was beautiful, the color of the sea, a low neckline with silver embroidery and a gathered waist falling to a full skirt.
"Alright, alright, put these on." She handed me a silver pendant hung on a thin chain and set with a stone matching my dress. "I believe we'll do your hair up, perhaps in the article that lord Elrond gave you for a present?" She looked at me questioningly, and I nodded mutely.
After five minutes of twisting, pulling, and a surprising amount of language from the lady standing behind me, my hair was all up in a large twisted mass held together by a silver clasp.
"You'll do, I believe!" she gave me a peck on the cheek and smiled lovingly, just as we were interrupted by the sounds of many trumpets.
"Come on, come on my dear! You cannot be late for the first sight of your husband!
A/N review everyone...please! thank you!
How was that possible?
Was I still asleep?
I pinched myself, hard.
Ouch. Definitely not a dream.
"First things first." I said out loud. "This girl must be buried. As I am the only one here, I suppose I must bury her."
Luckily, a shallow trench was already dug nearby. I widened and deepened it with a long branch I found. The hard part was getting the women to the grave. I gritted my teeth and put my arms around the girl. She was surprisingly light. I lowered her slowly, saying a few word out of respect for the dead. Even though I had never really met her, I felt that I owed my reflection something.
"Good bye," I said, turning on my heel.
Leaned against a nearby tree was a goldeny maple longbow. I sighed. At least there was one weapon I knew how to use. Next to it was a quiver full of gold-and-green-feathered arrows. Well made, I could tell.
"Aurora! Where are you?" I heard a matronly voice through the trees. "You need to meet the prince- remember he's coming today!"
A woman in brown and white came puffing through the trees. Upon seeing me she paused, and came rushing toward me.
"Aura! What in the name of Manwë are you doing all the way out here?"
"I-I-I- was." I stammered. However, the women seemed not to notice.
"The prince is coming today! You need to get ready-you shouldn't be wandering all the way out here- I heard Elrohir saying only yesterday that this was the most common place for orcs! Really, my darling, this is not good! You might have been ambushed, and without your friends...."
She sheparded me off to the right, tutting all the way.
"Come on, come on, you need to get dressed, you need to look nice for the prince-he is you r future husband of course!" She tucked a strand of brown hair behind an ear, and I noticed that hers too were pointed.
We soon reached a settlement on a rushing river. The matronly women led me to a room directly off a courtyard. I started to protest, but decided against it. Someone was actually paying attention to me. This was too good to pass up-and even if I did leave, where would I go? The people in this settlement looked much like me, and had no idea if I would be noticed as 'different' anywhere else.
"Now, would you rather be wearing the sea green or the ruby red when he arrives? Obviously, for the ball you will change into the royal violet-but which would you prefer?"
"Sea green." I responded automatically.
"With...silver jewelry, I think." She said, bustling over to a chest in the corner and lifting out a dress of my favorite color silk.
"Now, you just put this on, I'll see if I can find your aquamarine pendant for you to wear. Go on, go on!" she said, shooing me into a side chamber.
I put on the dress. It truly was beautiful, the color of the sea, a low neckline with silver embroidery and a gathered waist falling to a full skirt.
"Alright, alright, put these on." She handed me a silver pendant hung on a thin chain and set with a stone matching my dress. "I believe we'll do your hair up, perhaps in the article that lord Elrond gave you for a present?" She looked at me questioningly, and I nodded mutely.
After five minutes of twisting, pulling, and a surprising amount of language from the lady standing behind me, my hair was all up in a large twisted mass held together by a silver clasp.
"You'll do, I believe!" she gave me a peck on the cheek and smiled lovingly, just as we were interrupted by the sounds of many trumpets.
"Come on, come on my dear! You cannot be late for the first sight of your husband!
A/N review everyone...please! thank you!