Little Elf
Chapter twenty-eight
Fireflies flew merrily around Lorien leaving little pinpricks of light all over the forest like fairy lights. "Are we there yet?" Elle asked with the innocence of a kitten
"No, for the 20th time. I will tell you when we get there."
*He's so easy to wind up!* "are you sure? I could have sworn I saw a flet just now and you looked at it as if-"
"I swear I will force you to shut up!"
"How?" Elle grinned
"I'll kiss you." A smug grin spread across his face.
'You're just using your position as my meln to your own advantage. You really treat me badly. Remember we haven't decided why we break up yet' the accusation took a moment to sink in.
'Why…you'
'Isn't that your house?' Elle asked
Haldir nodded his forehead creased in a frown
"Oh I forgot to tell you…I went to your home this morning, come on!"
Haldir looked at her gobsmacked before narrowing his eyes "you knew all this time?"
"'Course I did, but you looked sop cute! Now come on we don't want to keep your parents waiting. Come on!"
Haldir wouldn't budge "Erm Haldir?? You know I al hungry, I would like to eat as well as see your brothers and father. But it would seem very odd if you didn't come with me."
"You tricked me?"
"Yes, but not on the scale that you did me. Don't look at me like that, now come on!"
Haldir followed her "You go up first."
Elle eyes him suspiciously "don't go looking up my dress."
"Would I do that?"
Shaking her head Elle climbed up the ladder. Standing in the entrance hall she watched the top of Haldir's head get slowly closer. "You must be Princess Ellette."
Elle turned to see a blond elf that was clearly related to Haldir "Just call em Elle."
"Of course."
"Rumil!" greeted Haldir striding over to hug his brother "where is Orophin?"
'I though he' she nodded towards Rumil 'was following us'
'He was. But we walked slowly. Anyway what does it matter, someone might have seen us' he pulled her to him 'ready to face my brothers?'
'Only if they're ready for me!' she grabbed his hand "come on"
They entered the dining room. The floor was made of Mallorn boards; its silver grain was polished, waxed and buffed to perfection giving a brilliant sheen and sparkle.
The table was made of the same wood with a green banner down the middle; red embroidery depicting interlinked leaves and flowers.
The plates were of polished silver gleaming in perfection catching the candlelight twinkling. The chairs had red banners with olive green trimmings.
At the head of the table sat an elf with a great aura about him, if it had been a colour Elle thought it would be blue for clam with a spattering of every other colour in the rainbow forming the complicated elf.
His face was kind, sparkling blue eyes not dissimilar of Haldir's studied her over the top of a crystal flute filled with a golden wine.
"Lady Elle." He nodded his head in greeting "It is of a great pleasure that I finally meet you."
"Thank you." Elle replied smiling graciously
"Elle this is my father Vadrierian"
"I'm very pleased to meet you."
"As am I, child, as am I." He looked pensively into his wine, swirling it around
"Sit down, sit down." Said Aldalóme bustling around the room "do make yourself comfortable. You are next t Haldir I am opposite Vadrierian. Rumil and Orophin will sit where they please."
Haldir pulled out the chair for Elle who smiled in thanks.
"Ahh, food. I have spent hours patrolling the northern part of the wood! The amount of orcs is rising and it is of great relief to get some rest. Some elves just don't have to do that hard work even though they are in high positions do they? Speaking of Haldir, how is your lady friend, Princess…"
"Ellette?"
"Why yes, and who are you?" the new elf looked at her interested
"Orophin, this is my 'lady friend' Princess Ellette."
"Ahh" Orophin looked at her briefly before sitting down next to Rumil in the seat at an angle to his father.
"Aldalóme would you like any help with serving?"
"No, you are my guest, you must not help!"
'Haldir help your mother'
'Pardon?'
'Help her!'
'Why?'
'She has spent the whole day cooking, now help!'
Before Haldir could reply Rumil commented, "do speak as meln in our own tongue, or you may speak beyond what you should"
'In English?'
"English?"
"Oh it's how you say Français in westron. Français is the way of saying in the well, yeah…" Elle lied, internally wincing at her mistake
"I have never heard you call it that."
Elle shrugged "Why would I not say my own language by it's own name?" (Previously she had called it French, just to confuse you)
"Elle how much of the pheasant would you like?"
"Pheasant?" *Have I ever had that? No, but Princess Elle would, it is after all quite expensive and as I am a Princess…* "Just a small amount please."
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"No, do not tell her that story!" Haldir pleaded
"But it is so funny my dear. He was about 250 years old." Aldalóme started "and I sent him out to get some milk-"
"And basically I got covered in milk." Haldir interrupted
"You missed out why you got covered in milk."
"Yes, Haldir, how did you get covered in milk?" Elle asked
"I'm not going into that." Haldir insisted
"Why?" Rumil asked, "It is not that embarrassing. All her did was decided to show off to the milk maid and try to milk a cow."
"That is outing it lightly." Persisted Aldalóme.
"Do you think this is an appropriate story to tell his meln?" broke in Orophin
Elle looked at him, he had spoken sparsely throughout the night.
"Of course it is." Insisted Rumil and Aldalóme.
"No, it is not, we should leave this nonsense!" said Haldir
'I always thought the point of meeting the parents was for them to tell embarrassing stories'
'No! They are meant to assess you! Anyway, you have already head half a dozen stories!'
'Well your parents have assessed me and decided that I'm worthy to hear this story and a few dozen more!"
"Stop speaking in westron and join in with us." Said Rumil
"Yes, we can carry on with that conversation…"
a/n well wasn't that a long un? puffs chest proudly a whole 6 pages long The next one is longer, 7 and a half! Yay I'm so proud of myself!
I also got 10 reviews! Yay, I will reach my goal of 200 reviews at ch30!
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Sokochan: Dinner has been served and eaten yay! Originally it was going to take two chapters…before the meal and during the meal, but I added bits and pieces…I'm glad that my explanation helped because I re-read it after posting and though "huh?" You were reading comments to other people? No that's not rude, I spend all this time writing them everyone might as well read em… How long is this thing? I wish I new…Originally when I first thought of it way back in January where we are at the moment only took 10 chapters, but I added bits and pieces and characters (Mithglin, Aldalóme as well as the future ones) and the voila! The fic became mammoth size. This fic will surely be longer then 100 chapters as long as I continue writing it until the end (willing to bet that it way go over 150) I may have to make it into parts…I dunno yet. I have seen a 100+ chapter fic, it was Harry Potter and yes I did read it, but I started when it was on chapter 40+ it still took ages to read though.
And just out of curiosity who does everyone want Elle to end up with? It can be elf, human, hobbit or dwarf…I just thought I'd ask!
Gwil