Chapter 1: Tears
Elrond walked towards the gate, with a frown on his face. He had been busy with important work when he had been called to the gate. But as he rounded the corner, all annoyance at having been disturbed vanished. For there in front of him was a horse carrying a small boy and a man lying dead on the floor.
"He just collapsed there" said one of the guards in
explanation of the dead man.
"I can see that" replied Elrond.
"What I want to know is why" The two guards just looked blank. Sighing Elrond
turned the body over. The cause of the mans death was obvious,
there was a massive hole where a sword had been. "He is dead" said Elrond sadly
"There is nothing I can do for him"
What about the child?" asked
one of the guards looking at the small boy on the rather tall horse. Elrond
looked at the child who was crying and asking what had happened to his father. "he will have to stay here, at least for tonight" replied
Elrond. "Don't let him see his father, it will only distress him"
"too late" replied one of the
guards as the boy dismounted the horse, with some difficulty.
"DADDY" he cried running up to
his father, tears rolling down his face. "Daddy?" he tried again. "what's wrong with my daddy?" he asked Elrond. Elrond was
silent for a moment trying to best explain to the child that his father was dead, luckily he didn't need to come up with an explanation
as the child came up with one himself. "Has his soul gone to be with mummy's and the valar?" he asked
Elrond.
"Yes" Elrond replied simply, hugging
the boy who was crying.
"is it my fault?" asked the boy "has he gone because I've
been bad and he
doesn't love me any more?"
"off
course not" replied Elrond, sympathetically. "He went because it was his time,
it is his fate to go now, nothing anyone could have done would have changed
that" The boy looked at Elrond and cried. Elrond not knowing what else to do
hugged the crying child until he fell asleep….