"Okay, for my readers, I need to say something. In the midst of my stress
but still trying to update frequently, I seem to have screwed up the
chapters. Go back to about 20 or 21 and read from there because I had to
include one chapter that Link of the Hylians kindly pointed out to me that
I'd forgotten. Trust me, it will make some things much clearer." ~Saira
Saira was on her way to go see Legolas late that night. She wasn't feeling well at all but it was anything like weakness of visions. The pain from her hand seemed to have spread and it ached her whole body. She constantly felt like a vision was approaching but none came.
Legolas was reading a letter and when he saw Saira he got a quizzical look.
"Everything okay?" he asked
"Yeah, just ever since we got back I haven't felt very good. I feel like something is going to happen like my visions but nothing comes."
"You don't look well."
"Legolas?"
"Yes?"
"Stop the pain!" she screamed as shots hammered into her head and images flashed across her eyes. Legolas had immediately come and caught her. But for Saira, things didn't stop. The visions wouldn't cease. She lost track after a minute but nothing stopped. It was so painful and only screams would come rather than words.
Legolas carried her to the hospital wing where Madam Pomfrey was organizing.
"What happened?"
"I don't know. Nothing has happened at all. I dont understand" he said over her screams.
But nothing could stop Saira's screams. She finally slipped into a coma like state where you could see the look of pain on her face. Her eyes were white and unable to close. She responded to nothing.
"Legolas, you should see this" Madam Pomfrey said
"What?"
"There are markings under her eyes."
"They are rune symbols," he said.
"Any idea what they mean?"
"They mean 'to see forever,'" he said
The hours dragged on and Saira was displaying no signs of recovery from her state. Legolas held her hand but her hand was limp. But suddenly Saira shot up and gasped painfully. Legolas jumped up beside her and put his hands on either side of her face.
"Don't let me go back"
"Back? Back where?"
"The pain. So many people are in pain. So many things are going happen. Even if I do open the locket, the pain never stops. Evil never ceases. Ahhhhh!"
Saira reverted to her previous state and Legolas nearly cried seeing her in such a state. The pain stopped in her head so that one vision could stand out
Ganondorf was in his throne and a transparent Evangeline was before him. She as just an image.
"Did it work?" he asked
"Yes, the empathic is stripped"
"And the Seer?"
"Alive. I don't see why I can't just kill her"
"Because only she can give me that power"
Everything stopped and Saira woke up. The hospital wing was empty except for her. There was an imprint on the seat next to her bed meaning Legolas hadn't been gone long. Saira started crying because of everything she'd been forced to see. Saira fell asleep and did not wake until morning when the smiling faces of her friends greeted her. But she only saw them for a moment when she reverted once again.
"Liz, go" Legolas said
"No, she's my friend"
"There is nothing you can do"
"I can use my powers to help"
"You have none!" Legolas said but not meaning it so cruelly.
"Liz, c'mon" Voron urged
"Fine"
They went toward the Great hall for breakfast and Liz couldn't stop talking about Saira and everyone else. She never mentioned them.
"Stop!" he said suddenly in front of the Great Hall
"What'd I do?" Liz asked
"Too much. Liz, have you given one thought to me since we arrived here?" he asked
"Of course"
"Then why is it the only things you can speak of are Saira, or other people's problems? I try to take care of you but you wont let me. We hardly get to see each other and when we do the only things you have to say involve everyone else's problems. I don't care! I want to be understanding but you need to think of my feelings too!"
"I do! Feelings are what I'm good at. Or used to be! Did you care to think that I'm like this because I'm dealing with my own right now? Just like you said. If you can't deal with that, then maybe we need to be apart completely"
"I agree. If you decide I'm important enough, then come around!"
Voron stormed off and Liz suddenly came to grips with what just happened. Her first urge was to run to Saira but that wasn't an option. Aranel was nowhere to be found and eventually Liz went back to the hospital wing to sit with her friend.
"You wont believe what happened today" Liz said, "I think Voron and I broke up. I really didn't see that one coming. I don't understand. He knew from the beginning that I always put my friends first. Am I really that bad of a girlfriend?"
Saira gasped and immediately scrambled up into the bed. She saw Liz and grabbed her friend in a hug
"Oh Liz, I'm sorry. I need to say before I don't get a chance. I know what happened. I heard and I'm sorry but dot worry, he'll come to his senses"
"Saira, what's happening to you?"
"The visions won't stop!"
Saira fell back and Liz broke down crying. Dmitri and Aranel came by later. Legolas was being kept busy with Umbridge and couldn't be with Saira but Aranel, Liz and Dmitri made sure to take up the slack.
"Legolas no! Nothing is going to help her right now!" Titania's voice echoed coming towards the hospital wing.
"What good is it keeping her here?" Legolas yelled back
"This may be temporary. Don't take her away!"
They burst in and Saira came to for a brief interlude. She went back and Legolas took her hand.
"Any drastic change?" he asked Liz
"No. She comes in and out. We were going to check the library for a way to get rid of the runes but it'll all be wizarding magic. This is most definitely Elvish. Legolas, this is a curse bestowed on Seers. The potion to inflict it has long been lost to our kind."
"I know"
The weeks continued on and Saira did not come out of her curse. Liz and Voron were not doing any better and to make matters worse, neither were Dmitri and Aranel. At dinner one night, Aranel yelled Elvish insults at Dmitri then stormed out. She refused to talk to Liz about it and wouldn't go near Dmitri anymore. Rianna seemed to be the only one living it up. She flirted and had fun. Exams were approaching and after the victory in quidditch for the Gryffindors, studying was all that happened.
Legolas finally took Saira away from the school and he and Saira journeyed back to Mirkwood. He took the fastest possible route. Liz was in a state of depression after that. She'd find herself going to places she and Voron used to go and nearly cry when she realized where she was. Legolas wrote to her and said that every time Saira came to she wanted to tell Liz and things would work out soon. Liz trusted her friend and waited hoping for the best but as the days passed she didn't see how they would.
To make matters worse, one day a group of Slytherins following Draco came by.
"Well if it isn't one of the Elf rejects" Pansy said
"Yeah and I heard there's trouble in paradise with the two of them" another girl said
Draco however refrained from saying anything spiteful a little surprising to Liz.
"So, what happened? Did your new hair style scare him off?" Pansy asked
Liz was not in the mood for this and her anger was rising.
"You know at least I can keep mine away form other girls" Liz spat
"Where is he now?"
"Studying"
"I'm sure. That's not what I hear"
Lightening cracked outside making everyone look out the window, except Liz. She was looking down the hall where she saw Voron talking with one of his Slytherin friends, Seth. She's met him a few times and he was a nice guy. Liz noticed Voron looking much paler than usual and he had dark bags under his eyes. Seth caught sight of her and half smiled
Pansy continued to shoo insults and Liz finally got fed up
"Pansy! Shut up!" Liz yelled over the laughs
Everyone stared at her outburst because she was usually real mellow and was the one to keep the peace.
"Excuse me" Pansy said
"Do not criticize my life for it is mine1 You have no place in it and I'd prefer it stay that way even if I live so long to go to Valinor!"
Liz yelled an Elvish insult followed by a spell where a glass wall erupted between them. She leaned against the wall and slid down to the floor crying again. When she heard footsteps leave, she dispelled the wall. However Draco still stood there.
"What do you want?" Liz asked coldly.
"Hey, I did nothing to you. I never really have so..."
"Draco, I'm really not in a right state" she glanced over to Voron. He unexpectedly stormed off angry after Seth said something.
"So there is trouble?"
'Don't" Liz said sternly" Don't pretend to be al nice and polite"
"I have changed you know"
"No I don't!" Liz said standing up "Maybe before some bastard and his whore poisoned me and took away what made me ...me"
"What are you talking about?"
"I am part of a practically extinct group of Moon Elves in which the women are empathic. We can read people's feelings."
"Really? You can do that?"
"Past tense. OH, don't look so worried because I already know"
"You-you know?"
"Yes Draco. I know how you feel about Saira. It's pretty obvious anyway"
"How is she?"
"Not well."
"But not worse?"
"No. Okay, Draco, I'm going to say something you're really not going to want to hear but I'm not saying it because I'm trying to be mean"
"What?"
"Her heart is spoken for. I know you care about her but the same person has been with her for a millennia"
"Who is it?"
"I'd tell you but you'd go do something bad"
"Like what?"
"I don't know but you would"
"Liz!" Seth called
Draco walked off as Seth came up. Seth was not someone you'd expect to see in Slytherin. He was quite tall with spiked brown hair and deep hazel eyes. He had a very brooding look about him but his smile would change everything. He was broad shouldered and a very classy gentlemen. He was a year younger than Voron but you wouldn't think that to look at him. Liz wiped her eyes and tried to smile as he walked up. She pretended to drop her books to give her more time to look decent.
"Vedui Seth"
Even though he was human, he spoke fluently in Elvish. He was from Ireland but had a lot of contact with Elves because of his parents.
"Vedui Liz. How are you?" he asked "Never mind. Your eyes tell all"
"Do they? So what do they tell him?" she said about Voron.
"He knows. In all honesty, I've never seen him this miserable"
"It's his fault!" Liz said not meaning to yell, "He knows how I am with my friends"
"He does. You have no idea how horrible he feels"
"That's because he hasn't come around me"
Liz shed a few tears
"Come here"
He held her as she cried.
"It'll all work out. Trust me"
"I hope so"
Liz and Seth went their own ways. However Liz was not up for class and went to the courtyard instead. She studied and did her work to get her mind off Voron but once she finished she couldn't think of anything else. Rianna interrupted for a moment coming in with Dorian.
"Ahem" Liz said
"Liz? What are you doing here?"
"Studying"
"Oh, okay. Hey, I heard you and Voron broke up"
"You shouldn't believe everything you hear"
Liz was becoming nauseous watching Dorian and Rianna together. She grabbed her books and left running into, none other, than Voron. Before she knew what was happening he was kissing her as if they'd left for thousands of years and were just now seeing each other again. Then he got down on his knees.
"Liz, I'm so sorry. I was stupid and ignorant to snap at you when you were only worried about a friend. That's' who you are and what I love. I love everything about you and I will keep apologizing until kingdom come until you know that without a doubt. I love you Eriathiel Malephelion. Can you ever forgive me?"
Liz was in shock and still trying to decipher what happened. She pulled him up so that she had to look up at him
"God, I am so furious with you. Do you know what I've been going through?"
"Liz, again—"
"Let me finish. But despite that, I love you too much to ever let us go through this again"
She smiled and threw her arms around his neck. He picked her up and hugged her happily. Liz cried one last time but these were joyful rather than sorrowful. She never realized how much she loved him until she almost lost him.
"I want to ask you something," Voron said
"What?"
"Later on this summer, my father is hosting a 'party' as a way to sort out defenses. I'd like you to come early and meet my family. My father wants to meet the extraordinary girl who has stolen my heart"
"When pray tell?"
"August I believe"
"I'll ask my father but I do need to spend some time with him"
"Alright. Mow my love, may I escort you to dinner?"
"You shouldn't even have to ask"
Being with Voron again made Liz forget about everything that was going wrong in life. Many Slytherins were shocked to see Liz and Voron together again. Many girls were too because Voron was quite a looker. They sat in the two seats farthest from the teachers.
"You don't how many people in Slytherin encouraged me to stop seeing you. It seemed like Seth was the only one who was on my side"
"Pansy and her friends stopped me today. Lucky Seth came by"
"What'd she say?" Voron asked
"That there was trouble in paradise"
"Paradise huh? Is it really? I was thinking more along the lines of heavenly"
Saira was on her way to go see Legolas late that night. She wasn't feeling well at all but it was anything like weakness of visions. The pain from her hand seemed to have spread and it ached her whole body. She constantly felt like a vision was approaching but none came.
Legolas was reading a letter and when he saw Saira he got a quizzical look.
"Everything okay?" he asked
"Yeah, just ever since we got back I haven't felt very good. I feel like something is going to happen like my visions but nothing comes."
"You don't look well."
"Legolas?"
"Yes?"
"Stop the pain!" she screamed as shots hammered into her head and images flashed across her eyes. Legolas had immediately come and caught her. But for Saira, things didn't stop. The visions wouldn't cease. She lost track after a minute but nothing stopped. It was so painful and only screams would come rather than words.
Legolas carried her to the hospital wing where Madam Pomfrey was organizing.
"What happened?"
"I don't know. Nothing has happened at all. I dont understand" he said over her screams.
But nothing could stop Saira's screams. She finally slipped into a coma like state where you could see the look of pain on her face. Her eyes were white and unable to close. She responded to nothing.
"Legolas, you should see this" Madam Pomfrey said
"What?"
"There are markings under her eyes."
"They are rune symbols," he said.
"Any idea what they mean?"
"They mean 'to see forever,'" he said
The hours dragged on and Saira was displaying no signs of recovery from her state. Legolas held her hand but her hand was limp. But suddenly Saira shot up and gasped painfully. Legolas jumped up beside her and put his hands on either side of her face.
"Don't let me go back"
"Back? Back where?"
"The pain. So many people are in pain. So many things are going happen. Even if I do open the locket, the pain never stops. Evil never ceases. Ahhhhh!"
Saira reverted to her previous state and Legolas nearly cried seeing her in such a state. The pain stopped in her head so that one vision could stand out
Ganondorf was in his throne and a transparent Evangeline was before him. She as just an image.
"Did it work?" he asked
"Yes, the empathic is stripped"
"And the Seer?"
"Alive. I don't see why I can't just kill her"
"Because only she can give me that power"
Everything stopped and Saira woke up. The hospital wing was empty except for her. There was an imprint on the seat next to her bed meaning Legolas hadn't been gone long. Saira started crying because of everything she'd been forced to see. Saira fell asleep and did not wake until morning when the smiling faces of her friends greeted her. But she only saw them for a moment when she reverted once again.
"Liz, go" Legolas said
"No, she's my friend"
"There is nothing you can do"
"I can use my powers to help"
"You have none!" Legolas said but not meaning it so cruelly.
"Liz, c'mon" Voron urged
"Fine"
They went toward the Great hall for breakfast and Liz couldn't stop talking about Saira and everyone else. She never mentioned them.
"Stop!" he said suddenly in front of the Great Hall
"What'd I do?" Liz asked
"Too much. Liz, have you given one thought to me since we arrived here?" he asked
"Of course"
"Then why is it the only things you can speak of are Saira, or other people's problems? I try to take care of you but you wont let me. We hardly get to see each other and when we do the only things you have to say involve everyone else's problems. I don't care! I want to be understanding but you need to think of my feelings too!"
"I do! Feelings are what I'm good at. Or used to be! Did you care to think that I'm like this because I'm dealing with my own right now? Just like you said. If you can't deal with that, then maybe we need to be apart completely"
"I agree. If you decide I'm important enough, then come around!"
Voron stormed off and Liz suddenly came to grips with what just happened. Her first urge was to run to Saira but that wasn't an option. Aranel was nowhere to be found and eventually Liz went back to the hospital wing to sit with her friend.
"You wont believe what happened today" Liz said, "I think Voron and I broke up. I really didn't see that one coming. I don't understand. He knew from the beginning that I always put my friends first. Am I really that bad of a girlfriend?"
Saira gasped and immediately scrambled up into the bed. She saw Liz and grabbed her friend in a hug
"Oh Liz, I'm sorry. I need to say before I don't get a chance. I know what happened. I heard and I'm sorry but dot worry, he'll come to his senses"
"Saira, what's happening to you?"
"The visions won't stop!"
Saira fell back and Liz broke down crying. Dmitri and Aranel came by later. Legolas was being kept busy with Umbridge and couldn't be with Saira but Aranel, Liz and Dmitri made sure to take up the slack.
"Legolas no! Nothing is going to help her right now!" Titania's voice echoed coming towards the hospital wing.
"What good is it keeping her here?" Legolas yelled back
"This may be temporary. Don't take her away!"
They burst in and Saira came to for a brief interlude. She went back and Legolas took her hand.
"Any drastic change?" he asked Liz
"No. She comes in and out. We were going to check the library for a way to get rid of the runes but it'll all be wizarding magic. This is most definitely Elvish. Legolas, this is a curse bestowed on Seers. The potion to inflict it has long been lost to our kind."
"I know"
The weeks continued on and Saira did not come out of her curse. Liz and Voron were not doing any better and to make matters worse, neither were Dmitri and Aranel. At dinner one night, Aranel yelled Elvish insults at Dmitri then stormed out. She refused to talk to Liz about it and wouldn't go near Dmitri anymore. Rianna seemed to be the only one living it up. She flirted and had fun. Exams were approaching and after the victory in quidditch for the Gryffindors, studying was all that happened.
Legolas finally took Saira away from the school and he and Saira journeyed back to Mirkwood. He took the fastest possible route. Liz was in a state of depression after that. She'd find herself going to places she and Voron used to go and nearly cry when she realized where she was. Legolas wrote to her and said that every time Saira came to she wanted to tell Liz and things would work out soon. Liz trusted her friend and waited hoping for the best but as the days passed she didn't see how they would.
To make matters worse, one day a group of Slytherins following Draco came by.
"Well if it isn't one of the Elf rejects" Pansy said
"Yeah and I heard there's trouble in paradise with the two of them" another girl said
Draco however refrained from saying anything spiteful a little surprising to Liz.
"So, what happened? Did your new hair style scare him off?" Pansy asked
Liz was not in the mood for this and her anger was rising.
"You know at least I can keep mine away form other girls" Liz spat
"Where is he now?"
"Studying"
"I'm sure. That's not what I hear"
Lightening cracked outside making everyone look out the window, except Liz. She was looking down the hall where she saw Voron talking with one of his Slytherin friends, Seth. She's met him a few times and he was a nice guy. Liz noticed Voron looking much paler than usual and he had dark bags under his eyes. Seth caught sight of her and half smiled
Pansy continued to shoo insults and Liz finally got fed up
"Pansy! Shut up!" Liz yelled over the laughs
Everyone stared at her outburst because she was usually real mellow and was the one to keep the peace.
"Excuse me" Pansy said
"Do not criticize my life for it is mine1 You have no place in it and I'd prefer it stay that way even if I live so long to go to Valinor!"
Liz yelled an Elvish insult followed by a spell where a glass wall erupted between them. She leaned against the wall and slid down to the floor crying again. When she heard footsteps leave, she dispelled the wall. However Draco still stood there.
"What do you want?" Liz asked coldly.
"Hey, I did nothing to you. I never really have so..."
"Draco, I'm really not in a right state" she glanced over to Voron. He unexpectedly stormed off angry after Seth said something.
"So there is trouble?"
'Don't" Liz said sternly" Don't pretend to be al nice and polite"
"I have changed you know"
"No I don't!" Liz said standing up "Maybe before some bastard and his whore poisoned me and took away what made me ...me"
"What are you talking about?"
"I am part of a practically extinct group of Moon Elves in which the women are empathic. We can read people's feelings."
"Really? You can do that?"
"Past tense. OH, don't look so worried because I already know"
"You-you know?"
"Yes Draco. I know how you feel about Saira. It's pretty obvious anyway"
"How is she?"
"Not well."
"But not worse?"
"No. Okay, Draco, I'm going to say something you're really not going to want to hear but I'm not saying it because I'm trying to be mean"
"What?"
"Her heart is spoken for. I know you care about her but the same person has been with her for a millennia"
"Who is it?"
"I'd tell you but you'd go do something bad"
"Like what?"
"I don't know but you would"
"Liz!" Seth called
Draco walked off as Seth came up. Seth was not someone you'd expect to see in Slytherin. He was quite tall with spiked brown hair and deep hazel eyes. He had a very brooding look about him but his smile would change everything. He was broad shouldered and a very classy gentlemen. He was a year younger than Voron but you wouldn't think that to look at him. Liz wiped her eyes and tried to smile as he walked up. She pretended to drop her books to give her more time to look decent.
"Vedui Seth"
Even though he was human, he spoke fluently in Elvish. He was from Ireland but had a lot of contact with Elves because of his parents.
"Vedui Liz. How are you?" he asked "Never mind. Your eyes tell all"
"Do they? So what do they tell him?" she said about Voron.
"He knows. In all honesty, I've never seen him this miserable"
"It's his fault!" Liz said not meaning to yell, "He knows how I am with my friends"
"He does. You have no idea how horrible he feels"
"That's because he hasn't come around me"
Liz shed a few tears
"Come here"
He held her as she cried.
"It'll all work out. Trust me"
"I hope so"
Liz and Seth went their own ways. However Liz was not up for class and went to the courtyard instead. She studied and did her work to get her mind off Voron but once she finished she couldn't think of anything else. Rianna interrupted for a moment coming in with Dorian.
"Ahem" Liz said
"Liz? What are you doing here?"
"Studying"
"Oh, okay. Hey, I heard you and Voron broke up"
"You shouldn't believe everything you hear"
Liz was becoming nauseous watching Dorian and Rianna together. She grabbed her books and left running into, none other, than Voron. Before she knew what was happening he was kissing her as if they'd left for thousands of years and were just now seeing each other again. Then he got down on his knees.
"Liz, I'm so sorry. I was stupid and ignorant to snap at you when you were only worried about a friend. That's' who you are and what I love. I love everything about you and I will keep apologizing until kingdom come until you know that without a doubt. I love you Eriathiel Malephelion. Can you ever forgive me?"
Liz was in shock and still trying to decipher what happened. She pulled him up so that she had to look up at him
"God, I am so furious with you. Do you know what I've been going through?"
"Liz, again—"
"Let me finish. But despite that, I love you too much to ever let us go through this again"
She smiled and threw her arms around his neck. He picked her up and hugged her happily. Liz cried one last time but these were joyful rather than sorrowful. She never realized how much she loved him until she almost lost him.
"I want to ask you something," Voron said
"What?"
"Later on this summer, my father is hosting a 'party' as a way to sort out defenses. I'd like you to come early and meet my family. My father wants to meet the extraordinary girl who has stolen my heart"
"When pray tell?"
"August I believe"
"I'll ask my father but I do need to spend some time with him"
"Alright. Mow my love, may I escort you to dinner?"
"You shouldn't even have to ask"
Being with Voron again made Liz forget about everything that was going wrong in life. Many Slytherins were shocked to see Liz and Voron together again. Many girls were too because Voron was quite a looker. They sat in the two seats farthest from the teachers.
"You don't how many people in Slytherin encouraged me to stop seeing you. It seemed like Seth was the only one who was on my side"
"Pansy and her friends stopped me today. Lucky Seth came by"
"What'd she say?" Voron asked
"That there was trouble in paradise"
"Paradise huh? Is it really? I was thinking more along the lines of heavenly"