** Disclaimer: I only own Zana ********* ****************** *********
Hi everybody again! A few more days of classes and then holidays! I'll be away, travelling to Slovenia, in two weeks, so you won't read from me until January, but I'll try to write some chapters before leaving.
I decided to put new things in this story, and I hope you'll like the changes.. well, there will be some mixes from both worlds and I thought it could be interesting.. you'll tell me! : ) Again, thank you for being "here"!
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Hey, you can be so unfair
And you know I will remember
You said you'd always be there
When you go
Hey, I wanted you to know
I wish you were mine
And I, I just wanted you to know
I had a good time
Ooh I, I had a really good time
I had a good time - Boston
We camped under the moonlight, around a small fire. The sky above us was starry, and I laid down to watch at it. My friends were already sleeping, so I had peace, silence.. only the sound of the night, the owls and crickets. That reminded me of one of my first nights in Mirkwood, and I felt a nostalgic pain in my chest. His ring was still in my hand, and I touched it. I couldn't believe that things had ended like this. I wished I had never come there.
"Be careful with what you wish for.."
What was that? I had heard a voice.. I sat down, scared. Looking around, the elves sleeping, the dwarf snoring, and Fern deeply asleep. Maybe my imagination had played a trick on me.
"Are you ready for choosing the destiny of your world? For travelling through time?"
This time I stood up, my heart beating so fast that I thought it would break my body in two parts. I was hardly breathing, shaking. I walked towards Haldir and Legolas to wake them up, but as soon as I had advanced two steps, I saw a shape in the darkness, and I paralysed. There was a man in the forest. A very tall man, who was moving his hand, calling me. But I didn't move.
"Maybe you're not ready yet, you're too scared.. don't be afraid of me, you know me well.. because we're not in Middle Earth any more.."
"What?" I asked, talking for the first time, and I heard him smiling.
"So you're alive!" He laughed again. "Come here, Zana. This place is not safe for you"
"I won't leave my friends here.. why don't you join us and introduce yourself?" I said, sharply, but he stayed in that hidden place.
"I don't need an introduction .. not for Fern and you.." He was talking in a mysterious way, and I was getting angry by then.
"And how come Haldir, Legolas and Gimli can't know you?" I was acting sarcastic.. like Haldir. I looked at him with the hope that he was awake.. but he wasn't.. that surprised me.. after all, it seemed that the elves, who always were in alert, didn't wake up with our voices.. that was scary. And the man moved.
"I told you that we're not in Middle Earth any more.."
"Are you kidding? Why, then, the elves and the dwarf are here with me?" I almost shouted, on purpose.
"They won't wake up unless you'll come here.. they travelled to our world now, Zana.. we're on Earth" Those words made me shocked. If we were on Earth.. why was that place exactly the same as the night before? I looked at the man and shook my head.
"I don't believe you. Nothing changed since yesterday" His light laugh came again.
"This is because since you passed the Fountain of Truth, you were sent back to Earth, Zana" I looked at the sky, at my friends.. at the landscape.. I remembered the ship that Legolas saw. And I was more and more confused. "Your mission, Zana.. began on Middle Earth.. it continues now here.. and then.. the end will take place where you'll decide with your actions"
"But who are you then? And if you don't mean any harm to me.. why don't you come here and show yourself?" I replied, placing myself behind the fire. He sighed.
"You're impossible, I see.. Ok then.. " I kept my breath.. ready for anything. But what I saw didn't give me any kind of information. I couldn't recognise that young man, dressed in old clothes.. very old clothes. Strange.. who was him? On which century did we land? I checked him again.. he was wearing dark green trousers, a kind of long shirt, white.. a belt around his waist and a cloak. And he was handsome indeed.. taller than me, with deep eyes and an intelligent smile. "What's wrong, Zana? You don't know where are you? You don't know who am I? He looked surprised, and I shook my head. In that moment I noticed that Haldir had moved on his sleeping bag, his breath had changed.. he was awake, pretending to sleep. I felt safer and I caught his gaze, a warning gaze.
"No, I don't know who are you.. I was born on 20th century and obviously you don't belong to that time.."
"I know when you were born, and I know why are you here, Zana" he was loosing his patience, and I became nervous. "We're on a different stage of your mission.. from now on you'll have to visit many places, many people.. "
"What about the Land of Eternal Ice? Why can't we go directly there and finally solve this?" I asked, impatiently.
"Because you can't arrive in that place so easily.. you have to find it.. "
"This is stupid..we already have the ship, and.."
"Which ship?" He laughed, looking in the distance, at the cliffs..
"You're joking, right?" I asked, murmuring, amazed. He became serious and his brown eyes checked me.
"You're not wearing the proper clothes for a Lady.."
"A Lady? Where are we?" I asked, and I moved my leg, beating on Haldir's one, but he didn't stop pretending.. I needed them, I needed them to help me, but he was ignoring me. But..why? Soon, I knew the answer. I didn't know when, I didn't know how.. but Legolas was behind the mysterious man, holding his bow, an arrow pointing at the neck of the stranger.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Legolas voice sounded so strong, and self-confident. By then, Haldir stood up, and joined him. Finally the two elves had reacted. But the man didn't seem to be scared.
"It seems I'll have to repeat the whole explanation again.." He said, with a sarcastic voice. I was amazed.. who was that brave man?
"Just tell your name and how come do you know about us and about our home.. and how come we're now on Earth.. and why not in Zana's century" Haldir asked, facing him, and Legolas relaxed a bit, leaving his bow near from his sleeping bag. "We heard the whole explanation, so you don't have to repeat anything. We knew that the Fountain of the Truth had a magical power we ignored.. but we want to know where did you get all the information from." I also looked at the young man, waiting for an answer. He smiled kindly.
"Lets say that Zana will have some guides during her journey.. and I'm the first one. You all will be travelling through time and important people will lead her to the Land of Eternal Ice.. but it won't be easy. My mission here is to tell you all that in two days you'll end up in another century, that some stages will be harder, some will be easier.. fortunately for all of you, mine is one of the bests. You'll be my guests in my castle until you'll decide to leave.." In that moment I wished I had studied more history during my life. Maybe I would meet some of the most famous persons and I would almost know nothing about them! And who was that nice man who owned a castle?
"Will you finally tell us who are you? And why you're not scared of two elves, if you didn't see any of their kind in your whole life? I asked, surprised.
"I've lived close to magic, believe me" He smiled, and looked in the distance. He had an attractive face that forced people to stare at him.. a kind of leading power.. yes, he could be a.. he interrupted my thoughts. "My best friend is a magician.. one of the wisest men on Earth.. and I'm surprised you don't know about our story.."
"There's no magic on Earth" I said, firmly.
"You don't know how wrong you are.. my friend showed you to me since I was named.." He stopped talking, thinking for a while. I couldn't bear the mystery any more.
"Come on, man.. speak" Haldir ordered, but the man didn't move or change his expression. He just looked at me, took my hand and kissed it gently.
"I'm the King Arthur, and my friend Merlin knows how to help you all".
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Haldir looked at Zana, afraid that she would faint again.. the words of that man had made a huge effect on her.. as if he was a famous person in their world. She looked so shocked that he couldn't help feeling a bit jealous.. at first he couldn't recognise that feeling, but he remembered it from another time, not a distant one. Legolas checked both of them, and gave him a worried look.
"Haldir, do you think it will be safe to join this man?" His blue eyes looked at the King again, trying to see inside him. The two elves were confused with his behaviour.. he was familiarised with magic, it was obvious.. and somehow he knew that they wouldn't hurt him.
"This is Zana's mission.. we must give this step. We're in their world and we don't know anything about it" Haldir looked at Gimli, who was waking up. The dwarf opened his eyes and when he saw the man, he jumped.
"Who are you?" He shouted, but Legolas put his hand on his shoulder.
"Calm down.. we've been walking on Earth since we crossed the Fountain of Truth.." The dwarf laughed.
"Are you crazy? This is stupid!" But when he checked their faces, he had to start to believe all of them. "By all the mines of Moria! Earth! "
"Hello, King Arthur" They all couldn't be more surprised. Fern knew about the man's presence since always. Haldir and Legolas felt a kind of anger towards him.
"I knew we shouldn't have trusted you.." Haldir gave a step but Legolas stopped him. The King greeted Fern and smiled.
"Thanks for bringing the girl here. Now things will be easier. Merlin and Galadriel were talking last night, and everything is ready" Haldir's face became red.
"Galadriel? She knew about this?" He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Also Legolas was shocked, speechless.. they felt betrayed.
"There are many things that you all don't know, because if you did, believe me that you wouldn't have followed the path that destiny prepared for you" The words of the King made sense, but Haldir felt even worse.. Galadriel, one of his kind.. she always had trusted him more than anybody else.. but she had made an agreement with a strange human from another time.. how could she had done that? He felt Zana's hand on his arm , and a strange warm feeling invaded him. Something he could also remember from a not too distant time. He couldn't help smiling, and she blushed. His hear beated a bit faster. And for a while, he had the need to hug her, but it disappeared in some seconds. Strange.
"So.. will you all walk with me to my castle? You need to eat decent food.." The King looked at the pieces of lembas with a face of disgust. The group packed their things, and slowly, followed the King Arthur.
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The castle appeared over a high hill.. hundreds of fire lamps showed it with a mysterious light.. the sun was already rising, and the view was so amazing that we all stopped to watch it calmly. I couldn't believe I was in the kingdom of king Arthur.. he had always been a legend , nobody knew the exact story about him.. and maybe I would be able to find it out.. for a while I was sorry for not being able to stay there more time.. I had almost forgotten about my own mission and I had to be strong and accept that the wonderful events that were taking place would only last some hours.. I wondered what would millions of people on Earth say if they knew I had visited another time, another century.. that I was about to discover the reality about the mythical King Arthur.
We crossed under an arc, and many soldiers came running towards us, with scared faces. Arthur calmed them, and he turned around to meet us again.
"Two of my soldiers will show you the rooms.. you must take a bath and change your clothes.." He looked at me with a strange face. "I bet there's a real lady under this male's cloth" I couldn't help blushing under the gaze of all the group. Then , finally, the king looked at the elves. "You all will go to the Southern Tower. She's a girl, she can't share the same space as you all.. I see you have confused gazes.. but you must know that Earth is not Middle Earth.. a lady can be in danger if you leave her alone in a place full of.. rude men.. and in my palace people are noble.. but I can't promise anything about servants"
"Then I'll go with her" I was surprised to hear Haldir's voice. The soldier started whispering between themselves, as if they were shocked.
"You're scandalising my people" The king smiled. "Unless you both are married.. and I doubt it.. you can't go with her"
"Then nobody will sleep in the castle" Said Legolas, advancing two steps, and all the soldiers replied to his action, moving on his direction. They stopped when Arthur lifted his hand.
"I understand that you all are worried about her.. but she knows about me.. and Fern also knows.. I'm a King, I'm a Knight of the Round Table.. I promise to take care of her, as well as all my Knights. " Somehow, the elves believed him. I felt a bit unprotected when we separated. Although I knew we would meet in one hour to have breakfast. I felt a hand in my arm, and looked behind. One of the Arthur's Knights was smiling gently, and introduced himself.
"I'm Lancelot, member of the Round Table" I looked at him, shocked. "Are you feeling right?" He asked, worried, and I nodded, speechless. That was too much for me. We walked towards one of the towers, and he led me through the halls, stopping in front of a strong wooden door. "Here you'll find what you need.. in some minutes a servant will bring you clothes. You're not talking but I must suppose that you feel well?" I blushed under his sarcastic gaze.. what was happening to me? As if I was falling in love with all the known historic people I was meeting. I was in front of Lancelot himself, he was good-looking indeed, and he had the nicest green eyes I had ever seen before. With light brown hair and a strong body under his blue uniform. And I remembered that he belonged to Geneva .. or this the story said.
"So what about Geneva?" He looked confused with my question, and I realised that I was giving information about the future, and that maybe some events still didn't happen.
"Who is her?" He asked, so confused that I felt guilty.
"Forget it, I'm a bit shocked and I'm mixing worlds.." He smiled, and nodded.
"Don't worry, I understand it.. anyway, I promised to protect you.. so I'll come here in one hour and I'll lead you to the dinning room" He disappeared and I thought that it would be ironic if he fell in love with me, changing the whole history. No, it wouldn't be funny. I should stay away from all of them so that I would make sure that history would go on.. on its way. but.. my mission was to change the future of Earth, so.. I was starting to understand.. I would have to change something from the past to make future different, but.. what?
I came in the room. It was small and simple, but it was more than enough for me. I opened the windows and went out to the balcony. I felt like Juliet waiting for her Romeo.. and I blushed when I realised that Haldir was standing in the gardens. He seemed to be looking for me. But I didn't speak.. I liked watching at him when he didn't realise. I smiled, remembering all our moments together. Suddenly, his blue eyes found mines and he walked towards me. There were 3 or 4 metres of distance from my place to the ground, but he climbed on a tree so easily that I couldn't help thinking that he was exactly like a cat.
"I have permission to visit you.." He lied, with bright eyes. "Those soldiers are not like my soldiers.. humans have mistakes, they even didn't notice that I was leaving from the tower" He looked at me, slowly. "You should really take a bath.." There was sarcasm on his voice.. the usual Haldir, I thought.
"What are you doing here?" I tried to sound sharp, wishing more than ever, that he remembered his feelings towards me. I knew it was impossible, and I felt very sad.
"What's wrong, Zana?" He asked, worried, and jumped from the tree to my balcony. He was so close to me that I felt my knees shaking. I liked him more than I could have imagined, and all I wished was to kiss him.. but I knew that he wouldn't kiss me back. I knew that he wouldn't feel the same and I missed all the moments we shared in Mirkwood. He was standing too close to me. The balcony was too small for two persons. I felt his hand on my face. "I would like to remember, Zana..we had a really good time.. but I can't" He whispered, and I felt tears in my eyes.
"Please, leave me alone" I said and, slowly, he walked to the door of my room, looking at me once more.
"Believe me that it's hard for me, Zana. wanting to love you and not being able.. but please, give me time" I looked at him, serious.
"Time is the only thing we don't have, Haldir"
Hi everybody again! A few more days of classes and then holidays! I'll be away, travelling to Slovenia, in two weeks, so you won't read from me until January, but I'll try to write some chapters before leaving.
I decided to put new things in this story, and I hope you'll like the changes.. well, there will be some mixes from both worlds and I thought it could be interesting.. you'll tell me! : ) Again, thank you for being "here"!
********* ************* *************** *************** *********
Hey, you can be so unfair
And you know I will remember
You said you'd always be there
When you go
Hey, I wanted you to know
I wish you were mine
And I, I just wanted you to know
I had a good time
Ooh I, I had a really good time
I had a good time - Boston
We camped under the moonlight, around a small fire. The sky above us was starry, and I laid down to watch at it. My friends were already sleeping, so I had peace, silence.. only the sound of the night, the owls and crickets. That reminded me of one of my first nights in Mirkwood, and I felt a nostalgic pain in my chest. His ring was still in my hand, and I touched it. I couldn't believe that things had ended like this. I wished I had never come there.
"Be careful with what you wish for.."
What was that? I had heard a voice.. I sat down, scared. Looking around, the elves sleeping, the dwarf snoring, and Fern deeply asleep. Maybe my imagination had played a trick on me.
"Are you ready for choosing the destiny of your world? For travelling through time?"
This time I stood up, my heart beating so fast that I thought it would break my body in two parts. I was hardly breathing, shaking. I walked towards Haldir and Legolas to wake them up, but as soon as I had advanced two steps, I saw a shape in the darkness, and I paralysed. There was a man in the forest. A very tall man, who was moving his hand, calling me. But I didn't move.
"Maybe you're not ready yet, you're too scared.. don't be afraid of me, you know me well.. because we're not in Middle Earth any more.."
"What?" I asked, talking for the first time, and I heard him smiling.
"So you're alive!" He laughed again. "Come here, Zana. This place is not safe for you"
"I won't leave my friends here.. why don't you join us and introduce yourself?" I said, sharply, but he stayed in that hidden place.
"I don't need an introduction .. not for Fern and you.." He was talking in a mysterious way, and I was getting angry by then.
"And how come Haldir, Legolas and Gimli can't know you?" I was acting sarcastic.. like Haldir. I looked at him with the hope that he was awake.. but he wasn't.. that surprised me.. after all, it seemed that the elves, who always were in alert, didn't wake up with our voices.. that was scary. And the man moved.
"I told you that we're not in Middle Earth any more.."
"Are you kidding? Why, then, the elves and the dwarf are here with me?" I almost shouted, on purpose.
"They won't wake up unless you'll come here.. they travelled to our world now, Zana.. we're on Earth" Those words made me shocked. If we were on Earth.. why was that place exactly the same as the night before? I looked at the man and shook my head.
"I don't believe you. Nothing changed since yesterday" His light laugh came again.
"This is because since you passed the Fountain of Truth, you were sent back to Earth, Zana" I looked at the sky, at my friends.. at the landscape.. I remembered the ship that Legolas saw. And I was more and more confused. "Your mission, Zana.. began on Middle Earth.. it continues now here.. and then.. the end will take place where you'll decide with your actions"
"But who are you then? And if you don't mean any harm to me.. why don't you come here and show yourself?" I replied, placing myself behind the fire. He sighed.
"You're impossible, I see.. Ok then.. " I kept my breath.. ready for anything. But what I saw didn't give me any kind of information. I couldn't recognise that young man, dressed in old clothes.. very old clothes. Strange.. who was him? On which century did we land? I checked him again.. he was wearing dark green trousers, a kind of long shirt, white.. a belt around his waist and a cloak. And he was handsome indeed.. taller than me, with deep eyes and an intelligent smile. "What's wrong, Zana? You don't know where are you? You don't know who am I? He looked surprised, and I shook my head. In that moment I noticed that Haldir had moved on his sleeping bag, his breath had changed.. he was awake, pretending to sleep. I felt safer and I caught his gaze, a warning gaze.
"No, I don't know who are you.. I was born on 20th century and obviously you don't belong to that time.."
"I know when you were born, and I know why are you here, Zana" he was loosing his patience, and I became nervous. "We're on a different stage of your mission.. from now on you'll have to visit many places, many people.. "
"What about the Land of Eternal Ice? Why can't we go directly there and finally solve this?" I asked, impatiently.
"Because you can't arrive in that place so easily.. you have to find it.. "
"This is stupid..we already have the ship, and.."
"Which ship?" He laughed, looking in the distance, at the cliffs..
"You're joking, right?" I asked, murmuring, amazed. He became serious and his brown eyes checked me.
"You're not wearing the proper clothes for a Lady.."
"A Lady? Where are we?" I asked, and I moved my leg, beating on Haldir's one, but he didn't stop pretending.. I needed them, I needed them to help me, but he was ignoring me. But..why? Soon, I knew the answer. I didn't know when, I didn't know how.. but Legolas was behind the mysterious man, holding his bow, an arrow pointing at the neck of the stranger.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Legolas voice sounded so strong, and self-confident. By then, Haldir stood up, and joined him. Finally the two elves had reacted. But the man didn't seem to be scared.
"It seems I'll have to repeat the whole explanation again.." He said, with a sarcastic voice. I was amazed.. who was that brave man?
"Just tell your name and how come do you know about us and about our home.. and how come we're now on Earth.. and why not in Zana's century" Haldir asked, facing him, and Legolas relaxed a bit, leaving his bow near from his sleeping bag. "We heard the whole explanation, so you don't have to repeat anything. We knew that the Fountain of the Truth had a magical power we ignored.. but we want to know where did you get all the information from." I also looked at the young man, waiting for an answer. He smiled kindly.
"Lets say that Zana will have some guides during her journey.. and I'm the first one. You all will be travelling through time and important people will lead her to the Land of Eternal Ice.. but it won't be easy. My mission here is to tell you all that in two days you'll end up in another century, that some stages will be harder, some will be easier.. fortunately for all of you, mine is one of the bests. You'll be my guests in my castle until you'll decide to leave.." In that moment I wished I had studied more history during my life. Maybe I would meet some of the most famous persons and I would almost know nothing about them! And who was that nice man who owned a castle?
"Will you finally tell us who are you? And why you're not scared of two elves, if you didn't see any of their kind in your whole life? I asked, surprised.
"I've lived close to magic, believe me" He smiled, and looked in the distance. He had an attractive face that forced people to stare at him.. a kind of leading power.. yes, he could be a.. he interrupted my thoughts. "My best friend is a magician.. one of the wisest men on Earth.. and I'm surprised you don't know about our story.."
"There's no magic on Earth" I said, firmly.
"You don't know how wrong you are.. my friend showed you to me since I was named.." He stopped talking, thinking for a while. I couldn't bear the mystery any more.
"Come on, man.. speak" Haldir ordered, but the man didn't move or change his expression. He just looked at me, took my hand and kissed it gently.
"I'm the King Arthur, and my friend Merlin knows how to help you all".
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Haldir looked at Zana, afraid that she would faint again.. the words of that man had made a huge effect on her.. as if he was a famous person in their world. She looked so shocked that he couldn't help feeling a bit jealous.. at first he couldn't recognise that feeling, but he remembered it from another time, not a distant one. Legolas checked both of them, and gave him a worried look.
"Haldir, do you think it will be safe to join this man?" His blue eyes looked at the King again, trying to see inside him. The two elves were confused with his behaviour.. he was familiarised with magic, it was obvious.. and somehow he knew that they wouldn't hurt him.
"This is Zana's mission.. we must give this step. We're in their world and we don't know anything about it" Haldir looked at Gimli, who was waking up. The dwarf opened his eyes and when he saw the man, he jumped.
"Who are you?" He shouted, but Legolas put his hand on his shoulder.
"Calm down.. we've been walking on Earth since we crossed the Fountain of Truth.." The dwarf laughed.
"Are you crazy? This is stupid!" But when he checked their faces, he had to start to believe all of them. "By all the mines of Moria! Earth! "
"Hello, King Arthur" They all couldn't be more surprised. Fern knew about the man's presence since always. Haldir and Legolas felt a kind of anger towards him.
"I knew we shouldn't have trusted you.." Haldir gave a step but Legolas stopped him. The King greeted Fern and smiled.
"Thanks for bringing the girl here. Now things will be easier. Merlin and Galadriel were talking last night, and everything is ready" Haldir's face became red.
"Galadriel? She knew about this?" He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Also Legolas was shocked, speechless.. they felt betrayed.
"There are many things that you all don't know, because if you did, believe me that you wouldn't have followed the path that destiny prepared for you" The words of the King made sense, but Haldir felt even worse.. Galadriel, one of his kind.. she always had trusted him more than anybody else.. but she had made an agreement with a strange human from another time.. how could she had done that? He felt Zana's hand on his arm , and a strange warm feeling invaded him. Something he could also remember from a not too distant time. He couldn't help smiling, and she blushed. His hear beated a bit faster. And for a while, he had the need to hug her, but it disappeared in some seconds. Strange.
"So.. will you all walk with me to my castle? You need to eat decent food.." The King looked at the pieces of lembas with a face of disgust. The group packed their things, and slowly, followed the King Arthur.
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The castle appeared over a high hill.. hundreds of fire lamps showed it with a mysterious light.. the sun was already rising, and the view was so amazing that we all stopped to watch it calmly. I couldn't believe I was in the kingdom of king Arthur.. he had always been a legend , nobody knew the exact story about him.. and maybe I would be able to find it out.. for a while I was sorry for not being able to stay there more time.. I had almost forgotten about my own mission and I had to be strong and accept that the wonderful events that were taking place would only last some hours.. I wondered what would millions of people on Earth say if they knew I had visited another time, another century.. that I was about to discover the reality about the mythical King Arthur.
We crossed under an arc, and many soldiers came running towards us, with scared faces. Arthur calmed them, and he turned around to meet us again.
"Two of my soldiers will show you the rooms.. you must take a bath and change your clothes.." He looked at me with a strange face. "I bet there's a real lady under this male's cloth" I couldn't help blushing under the gaze of all the group. Then , finally, the king looked at the elves. "You all will go to the Southern Tower. She's a girl, she can't share the same space as you all.. I see you have confused gazes.. but you must know that Earth is not Middle Earth.. a lady can be in danger if you leave her alone in a place full of.. rude men.. and in my palace people are noble.. but I can't promise anything about servants"
"Then I'll go with her" I was surprised to hear Haldir's voice. The soldier started whispering between themselves, as if they were shocked.
"You're scandalising my people" The king smiled. "Unless you both are married.. and I doubt it.. you can't go with her"
"Then nobody will sleep in the castle" Said Legolas, advancing two steps, and all the soldiers replied to his action, moving on his direction. They stopped when Arthur lifted his hand.
"I understand that you all are worried about her.. but she knows about me.. and Fern also knows.. I'm a King, I'm a Knight of the Round Table.. I promise to take care of her, as well as all my Knights. " Somehow, the elves believed him. I felt a bit unprotected when we separated. Although I knew we would meet in one hour to have breakfast. I felt a hand in my arm, and looked behind. One of the Arthur's Knights was smiling gently, and introduced himself.
"I'm Lancelot, member of the Round Table" I looked at him, shocked. "Are you feeling right?" He asked, worried, and I nodded, speechless. That was too much for me. We walked towards one of the towers, and he led me through the halls, stopping in front of a strong wooden door. "Here you'll find what you need.. in some minutes a servant will bring you clothes. You're not talking but I must suppose that you feel well?" I blushed under his sarcastic gaze.. what was happening to me? As if I was falling in love with all the known historic people I was meeting. I was in front of Lancelot himself, he was good-looking indeed, and he had the nicest green eyes I had ever seen before. With light brown hair and a strong body under his blue uniform. And I remembered that he belonged to Geneva .. or this the story said.
"So what about Geneva?" He looked confused with my question, and I realised that I was giving information about the future, and that maybe some events still didn't happen.
"Who is her?" He asked, so confused that I felt guilty.
"Forget it, I'm a bit shocked and I'm mixing worlds.." He smiled, and nodded.
"Don't worry, I understand it.. anyway, I promised to protect you.. so I'll come here in one hour and I'll lead you to the dinning room" He disappeared and I thought that it would be ironic if he fell in love with me, changing the whole history. No, it wouldn't be funny. I should stay away from all of them so that I would make sure that history would go on.. on its way. but.. my mission was to change the future of Earth, so.. I was starting to understand.. I would have to change something from the past to make future different, but.. what?
I came in the room. It was small and simple, but it was more than enough for me. I opened the windows and went out to the balcony. I felt like Juliet waiting for her Romeo.. and I blushed when I realised that Haldir was standing in the gardens. He seemed to be looking for me. But I didn't speak.. I liked watching at him when he didn't realise. I smiled, remembering all our moments together. Suddenly, his blue eyes found mines and he walked towards me. There were 3 or 4 metres of distance from my place to the ground, but he climbed on a tree so easily that I couldn't help thinking that he was exactly like a cat.
"I have permission to visit you.." He lied, with bright eyes. "Those soldiers are not like my soldiers.. humans have mistakes, they even didn't notice that I was leaving from the tower" He looked at me, slowly. "You should really take a bath.." There was sarcasm on his voice.. the usual Haldir, I thought.
"What are you doing here?" I tried to sound sharp, wishing more than ever, that he remembered his feelings towards me. I knew it was impossible, and I felt very sad.
"What's wrong, Zana?" He asked, worried, and jumped from the tree to my balcony. He was so close to me that I felt my knees shaking. I liked him more than I could have imagined, and all I wished was to kiss him.. but I knew that he wouldn't kiss me back. I knew that he wouldn't feel the same and I missed all the moments we shared in Mirkwood. He was standing too close to me. The balcony was too small for two persons. I felt his hand on my face. "I would like to remember, Zana..we had a really good time.. but I can't" He whispered, and I felt tears in my eyes.
"Please, leave me alone" I said and, slowly, he walked to the door of my room, looking at me once more.
"Believe me that it's hard for me, Zana. wanting to love you and not being able.. but please, give me time" I looked at him, serious.
"Time is the only thing we don't have, Haldir"