I moved back, the tip of the dagger still in his neck. I would have dearly
liked to just push it straight through him for being such a worthless,
stupid fool. But I knew that if I just kept my head I would still have time
to get what I wanted, though I would have to drop some of the nice act and
get him to talk.
"Oh dear, you really are in trouble now, aren't you?" I smirked. "You see,
the others will now come and they will definitely kill you for trespassing
where you are most certainly not wanted"
I could hear the others coming, though the boy could not, with his greatly
inferior senses, they would be there in a matter of moments so there was
only one thing left to do. I looked deeply into the boy's eyes that were
now aflame with fear. Then I thought that maybe the nice act would work
better than beating the information out of him. I smiled a sweet and gentle
smile and said softly:
"I can save you from a very slow and painful death, just tell me who hired
you and where I can find them?"
The boy was growing more scared by the second and his eyes were darting to and fro, trying to find a way out. He would never tell me in time as he was diving straight into blind panic. So I pulled the tip of the dagger from his neck and stepped back up to him, looked straight into his eyes and caressed his face with my hand. 'You don't want to die slowly do you?' The boy shook his head, as words seemed to have left him. 'Then tell me what I want to know and you won't' Again I laid my body against his, allowing him to share in my warmth as his impending doom drew nearer, the elves were so close now that the boy could now hear them. But the fact that they weren't being quiet was a sure sign that Haldir was with them and as pissed as hell, the only time Haldir isn't quiet is when there's an attack.
'I don't know who wants your lady dead, but I know and work under the person who sent me to kill her. Their name is Deollyn. They live and work in Bree.' His words were hurried as his life depended on the information that he gave me. 'And what is your name?' I whispered to him, a broad, wicked grin across my face. As the elves were drawing nearer, any caution that the boy might have been holding back completely dissolved and urgency was evidently clear on his face. 'Tellyn' he whispered 'Now PLEASE help me!' he pleaded as the first of the elves could now been seen coming towards us. I simply smiled back at him and said 'Thank you, you've been most helpful' and with that I drew the dagger swiftly across his throat. Blood poured from the gash in his neck but he was dead before he hit the floor. I looked down at his body and sighed: 'Well I promised to save you from a slow and painful death, I never said that you wouldn't die, or that I wouldn't kill you. Oh well, too bad'
I turned to find a group of Lorien elves emerge from the trees close to where I was, Haldir in the lead. He stopped when he saw the boy's body and a look if pure disgust appeared across his fair elven face. 'Another one?' he asked angrily I simply nodded and Haldir turned away unable to look at the body. He walked to the nearest elf and ordered them and a few others to take "that thing' away from the woods and just leave it out in the open for the scavengers. They did as they were told and the other elves swiftly and silently left to return to their posts. Only Haldir and myself remained. 'I have some news for you Haldir, something that "he" told me' I said "he" with as much contempt and dislike as I could muster under the reverence of my success. I couldn't act too happy that I had found out from the boy for I'd probably get seven shades knocked out of my by Haldir.
He turned and looked at me for a moment, as though he was trying to read my mind, searching for something, anything, a trace of the disgust from seeing yet another man in Lorien still evident on his face, but I just looked back at him, my features relaxed and soft, not trying to portray anything that might set him off. He sighed, nodded and turned and began walking away. I had to sigh myself, for a moment I was wasn't sure what he was going to do. I joined him as he walked off, telling him what I had learned from the boy. I did leave out some of the details, like the name of the person who hired him and the exact location where they could be found. For one simple reason, if I told Haldir everything then he would have gone off the moment I was finished speaking, gone to Bree and slaughtered whoever was behind it all. Again, not a good thing for my plans and me. So I told him that I had an idea and that I would be able to stop the attacks. Haldir was unsure about this but I had his trust that I would carry out what I said, or at the very least die trying, also I was well aware of the ways the feeble minds of men worked, much better than he did (for the incident I mentioned before totally put him off having anything to do with men, in any way, shape or form, not that he had much to do with them beforehand). So he could see the logic in what I was saying. Plus he knew that I had a way with people and I could get them to do as I wished.
He told me that he had his doubts about my plan, but I said I was prepared for anything that they could throw at me. Also that if he told me not to go that that wouldn't stop me either, for I didn't have to take orders from him as I'm not a member of his guard and I'm not even a Lorien elf. Yeah I know that in the past we're all from the same place and that our people moved apart, but that was then, this is now. So I was under no obligation to do as he or anyone, other than the lord and lady asked. Add to that the fact that I'm royalty and he isn't made my case against him rather strong. I also used the old 'I'm a visitor here so you should respect my wishes to come and go as I please' card. Ok, so I'd been in Lorien for five years straight. But in hindsight, that's not a very long time for an immortal, but it still didn't make Lothlorien my home.
Haldir had little so say in defence of that, but did say that I should, at least consult Galadriel about my plan, for it was to save her life, and she is wise and would see things from a different perspective. He also urged me, as a friend, to think about it for a while and see how things look in the morning. As I said before, Haldir logic is always good and it never ceases to amaze me. In the midst of everything that's happened and the fact that he is incredibly pissed off, he still manages to keep a cool head when it comes to the safety of his friends and people he cares about. Sometimes I wish that just once he wouldn't be right all the bloody time. It's enough to make you want to puke.
We were on our way to Caras Galadhorn anyway, to report another attempted attack, so there would be no harm in consulting her. Damn Haldir, he always has to be right and take the most sensible route to getting things done (which usually means 'kill it'). However, this wasn't about Galadriel, it was about me, and I hate to say this but, the Lady of the Golden Wood is rather good at searching out unsavoury characters who are being less than honest when they are brought before her. And at this moment in time, I felt like I couldn't lie straight in bed, and I was going to go up to her and tell her a bunch of half truths and lies just so I could, like a spoilt little brat, get what I wanted. I had no idea if this was going to work or even if I had the balls to do it (she's the only person that truly scares me because she could figure me all out and tell the world that I'm a total scumbag bastard, I know that I know that, but I can't have everyone else know that too) and if it didn't work and she revealed I was a liar then the shit would really hit the fan.
The boy was growing more scared by the second and his eyes were darting to and fro, trying to find a way out. He would never tell me in time as he was diving straight into blind panic. So I pulled the tip of the dagger from his neck and stepped back up to him, looked straight into his eyes and caressed his face with my hand. 'You don't want to die slowly do you?' The boy shook his head, as words seemed to have left him. 'Then tell me what I want to know and you won't' Again I laid my body against his, allowing him to share in my warmth as his impending doom drew nearer, the elves were so close now that the boy could now hear them. But the fact that they weren't being quiet was a sure sign that Haldir was with them and as pissed as hell, the only time Haldir isn't quiet is when there's an attack.
'I don't know who wants your lady dead, but I know and work under the person who sent me to kill her. Their name is Deollyn. They live and work in Bree.' His words were hurried as his life depended on the information that he gave me. 'And what is your name?' I whispered to him, a broad, wicked grin across my face. As the elves were drawing nearer, any caution that the boy might have been holding back completely dissolved and urgency was evidently clear on his face. 'Tellyn' he whispered 'Now PLEASE help me!' he pleaded as the first of the elves could now been seen coming towards us. I simply smiled back at him and said 'Thank you, you've been most helpful' and with that I drew the dagger swiftly across his throat. Blood poured from the gash in his neck but he was dead before he hit the floor. I looked down at his body and sighed: 'Well I promised to save you from a slow and painful death, I never said that you wouldn't die, or that I wouldn't kill you. Oh well, too bad'
I turned to find a group of Lorien elves emerge from the trees close to where I was, Haldir in the lead. He stopped when he saw the boy's body and a look if pure disgust appeared across his fair elven face. 'Another one?' he asked angrily I simply nodded and Haldir turned away unable to look at the body. He walked to the nearest elf and ordered them and a few others to take "that thing' away from the woods and just leave it out in the open for the scavengers. They did as they were told and the other elves swiftly and silently left to return to their posts. Only Haldir and myself remained. 'I have some news for you Haldir, something that "he" told me' I said "he" with as much contempt and dislike as I could muster under the reverence of my success. I couldn't act too happy that I had found out from the boy for I'd probably get seven shades knocked out of my by Haldir.
He turned and looked at me for a moment, as though he was trying to read my mind, searching for something, anything, a trace of the disgust from seeing yet another man in Lorien still evident on his face, but I just looked back at him, my features relaxed and soft, not trying to portray anything that might set him off. He sighed, nodded and turned and began walking away. I had to sigh myself, for a moment I was wasn't sure what he was going to do. I joined him as he walked off, telling him what I had learned from the boy. I did leave out some of the details, like the name of the person who hired him and the exact location where they could be found. For one simple reason, if I told Haldir everything then he would have gone off the moment I was finished speaking, gone to Bree and slaughtered whoever was behind it all. Again, not a good thing for my plans and me. So I told him that I had an idea and that I would be able to stop the attacks. Haldir was unsure about this but I had his trust that I would carry out what I said, or at the very least die trying, also I was well aware of the ways the feeble minds of men worked, much better than he did (for the incident I mentioned before totally put him off having anything to do with men, in any way, shape or form, not that he had much to do with them beforehand). So he could see the logic in what I was saying. Plus he knew that I had a way with people and I could get them to do as I wished.
He told me that he had his doubts about my plan, but I said I was prepared for anything that they could throw at me. Also that if he told me not to go that that wouldn't stop me either, for I didn't have to take orders from him as I'm not a member of his guard and I'm not even a Lorien elf. Yeah I know that in the past we're all from the same place and that our people moved apart, but that was then, this is now. So I was under no obligation to do as he or anyone, other than the lord and lady asked. Add to that the fact that I'm royalty and he isn't made my case against him rather strong. I also used the old 'I'm a visitor here so you should respect my wishes to come and go as I please' card. Ok, so I'd been in Lorien for five years straight. But in hindsight, that's not a very long time for an immortal, but it still didn't make Lothlorien my home.
Haldir had little so say in defence of that, but did say that I should, at least consult Galadriel about my plan, for it was to save her life, and she is wise and would see things from a different perspective. He also urged me, as a friend, to think about it for a while and see how things look in the morning. As I said before, Haldir logic is always good and it never ceases to amaze me. In the midst of everything that's happened and the fact that he is incredibly pissed off, he still manages to keep a cool head when it comes to the safety of his friends and people he cares about. Sometimes I wish that just once he wouldn't be right all the bloody time. It's enough to make you want to puke.
We were on our way to Caras Galadhorn anyway, to report another attempted attack, so there would be no harm in consulting her. Damn Haldir, he always has to be right and take the most sensible route to getting things done (which usually means 'kill it'). However, this wasn't about Galadriel, it was about me, and I hate to say this but, the Lady of the Golden Wood is rather good at searching out unsavoury characters who are being less than honest when they are brought before her. And at this moment in time, I felt like I couldn't lie straight in bed, and I was going to go up to her and tell her a bunch of half truths and lies just so I could, like a spoilt little brat, get what I wanted. I had no idea if this was going to work or even if I had the balls to do it (she's the only person that truly scares me because she could figure me all out and tell the world that I'm a total scumbag bastard, I know that I know that, but I can't have everyone else know that too) and if it didn't work and she revealed I was a liar then the shit would really hit the fan.
