Chapter 2
Not long later the two bedraggled friends entered the familiar corridors.
"You look a little wet Estel," Elladan snickered.
Estel just growled, "Is Ro here?"
"NO...I did not see him leave..." Elladan was soon full of concern; he trailed off with a wide range of inventive curses, from many languages.
"Elladan Elrondion, if I ever hear that language again you will not be able to speak for an age." Elrond's stern voice cut him off.
"Sorry Ada," he muttered, the curses still running through his mind.
"What happened to you two? You look like you swam to Valinor and back."
"We were messing outside Ada...it took Estel a little longer to get home. I don't know what happened to Ro...I'm sorry Ada, I should not have been so careless and made sure he was well...now I fear we have lost him..."
"Stop right there Elladan. What are you talking about my son?"
"I threw Elrohir into the river...it was calm and shallow, I thought he'd be fine...I thought he had come back here when I couldn't find him."
"And we thought the same when we couldn't see him." Estel added.
"Are you well Estel? You look like you have been in the rain a while." Elrond asked.
"I'm fine Ada." He assured. "We'll go out and look for Elrohir when the rain has cleared." He told them.
Elladan just, muttered something and stormed off.
He did not know how long he had been in the water, only that he was soaking wet and following the course of the flowing river.
He felt drained, too tired to try and swim to shore and so allowed his body to drift until he hit his head on a jagged rock and fell unconscious.
Two boys were playing at the river bank, trying to catch fish and not succeeding when suddenly a body drifted to them. A younger girl who was with them watched curiously as the boys poked the thing with sticks.
"Adier, Tilo, what are you boys doing?" Taria asked.
"Nothing mom," Tilo, the younger boy answered.
"It washed up in the river," Adier added.
"What is it?" Melá asked.
"Come out of the way dears," the older woman told her children getting a closer look at the body, "oh my..." she gasped seeing a fair faced being with pointed ears...an Elf. It looked like he was injured from the cut to his left temple. "Come on my darlings, we must get him home now." She said carefully picking up the unconscious being, mindful of possible wounds and took him home.