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Little Elf
Chapter Five
December 2nd 3016
Elle woke up the next morning slightly disorientated. She stared at the ceiling, a mural, a work of art itself.
She pulled herself into a sitting position "I see that you are awake." Said Edwi smiling at her while looking through a wardrobe. "Here is your dress for today." A dress was put on the bed.
"Are those suitable for archery?" Elle asked
"Archery?"
"Lord Celeborn has decided to take it upon himself to teach me the fine art of archery. At his own risk."
"How did you get here without knowing how to wield a weapon?"
"Luck, pure puck. I don't know how I did it myself."
"Well you will have to wear a dress for breakfast and then change into a tunic for your lesson."
"What? There are like 100,000 stairs! You're trying to kill me!"
"Actually there's 57,429. Lady Arwen counted one day."
"You can't expect me to walk up all of them."
"Well…"
"Why'd I have to be put in a royal talan? If I wasn't I'd be closer to the ground."
"Princess Ellette! You are one to tug at the heartstrings. Have your breakfast in the dress. Then I will take you to my room where you can change. I'll have to take you to the archery field."
"Ok then. You can go now, I'm sure you have something better to do."
Edwi smiled and obediently left. Elle quickly changed into the dress. She looked at the Mallorn leaf clasp in disdain. There were a number of other clips on the dressing table all with the same clasp on the back.
*My bag!* Elle ran over to her bag and looked into it, she took out the contents:
100 paracetomal tablets
A jar of morphine tablets (her Grandmothers medication!)
A French-English dictionary
A sketchpad
Watercolours
Paintbrushes
Lord of the rings; French addition
A butterfly clip
A CD player
A few CD's
A book of music
A make up bag
And Elle's diary.
Elle grinned broadly when she saw the butterfly clip. She twisted her hair round and up before securing the clip in place.
She left the room and walked down the stairs slowly, keeping herself as close to the trunk as possible.
She eventually found the room she had dined in the previous night; though she quickly realised that it was actually a hall. She found a platter with a lot of toast on it. She picked up to slices and made to leave the room.
"Elle?"
"Oui?" *Might as well start getting into character* "I mean yes."
"Where are you going? You haven't eaten yet."
"I was about to eat. See, I have deux pain grillé avec du beure. Oh right sorry, I'm not awake yet. I was saying that I have two slices of toast."
"You have not had a drink or eaten any fruit yet. You must remember you need much energy for archery, niphredil Flower. Unfortunately I cannot come and help you. I have to go back to keeping guard." Elle found her self-being sheparded towards a table.
The elves at the table greeted Haldir and Elle happily. Haldir set about serving out Elle's breakfast and she ended up with a pile of fruit. "What wine would you like?"
"Aren't there any non-alcoholic drinks here?"
"Yes there are." Haldir poured a turquoise drink into a goblet for Elle." It was very sweet to the taste almost sickly. "What on earth is that?"
"Stersea juice. I believe it's an acquired taste. I for one have never really liked it."
"Don't you have any tea?"
"Aye, we do."
"Then why didn't you give me some?"
"You never asked."
"Volage."
" Pardon?"
"You lot can speak in Sindarin and let me not understand. So I'm gonna speak in my language."
"But they're talking to each other. They don't know how to speak in the common tongue either."
Elle stuck her tongue out at him and started on her pile of fruit. Haldir suddenly looked at her. "You're wearing a dress. Why?"
"I thought it would be better then coming to breakfast stark naked."
"An amusing site that would have been."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Haldir just grinned "But a dress is not suitable for archery."
"Try telling Edwi that. I have to wear a dress to breakfast. I have to change into a tunic later. I personally don't see what the problem is. I didn't have to wear dresses in Abberant. It's normal to see both women and she-elves in trousers."
"Trousers?"
"You know what I was wearing yesterday? They were trousers."
"They were not trousers!"
"Yes they were!"
"They were not!"
"There's no point in my trying to explain this. Our fashions are different." *Under statement of the year* "What time is it?"
Haldir looked up into the sky. "One hour before noon."
"Ack! I'm meant to be meeting Lord Celeborn in half an hour, and I still have to change! Namarie Farewell "
Elle walked out of the hall hurriedly and almost walked into Edwi. "Princess Elle! I was just coming to get you."
"Couldn't you just call me plain Elle?"
"Of course Lady Elle. Now come."
Elle was quickly taken to Edwi's talan, which was plainer then Elle's. She was given a tunic of sea blue and a pair of leggings of bright blue. "You will get a wrist guard from Lord Celeborn." She looked at Elle critically "What have you done to your hair?"
"I put it in a style of my country."
"But what about braids!"
"I know. Now I need to get the practising fields. I will also say this to you now. Id I accidentally kill someone don't hold it against me."
"I will not." Answered Edwi Solemnly "But we must get to the fields."
A/n My French is lacking so bear with me on that front!
Lucy: Well you have more now!
KindCalypso: I think everyone has the opinion that Haldir is sweet! So do I! Well if it's and elf it's sweet to me but you catch my drift!
Fang: Thanks! I'll stop putting myself down. Maddy says hi by the way and she's also gloating. I don't know why.
Aleydis, hi if you're reading and I have one thing to say to you! I'm still looking and I will find it :)
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