Chapter 2

Captors

They rode for what seemed like a day, she was tired and hungry, her body ached from the movement of the horse and every muscle in her body screamed for them to stop.

When they finely did stop it was in front of a large forest. The elf and dwarf had gotten off their horse first, followed by the man who pulled Kailani off as well. They quietly walked thought the forest until they came to a large village among the trees. An elf walked up to the man and shook his hand. "We have been expecting you, there is a camp set up for you and your gust." The elf then turned and looked at Kailani oddly. All she could do was snort and shoot him a dirty look.

They reached there camp about tem minutes latter and started to get settled in, the man walked over to Kailani and pulled the cloth out of her mouth.

"Run if you wish but these woods are very well protected, you will not get far."

Kailani sat down on the ground pondering what she was going to do, her hands where still bound, so she sat there fighting with the ropes trying to get them off, after she got that done then she would be able to concentrate on how to get out of there. She struggled with the ropes for well over an hour, and she had gotten nowhere, her wrist where badly scratched up and her fingernails where broken and split.

Movement off to the side of the group caught her eye, there was a figure coming towards her, Kailani fearing for her life and started to back away. As the figure got closer she saw that it was the elf, he sate down across from her and placed a plate of food in front of her.

"Here, young one, I thought you might be hungry." He said in a calm and soothing voice, she was almost taken in by the soothing sound of his words. Then she shook the nonsense out of the head. She just sat there glaring at him. Realizing that she was not going to accept the food the elf stood, but before he walked away he shared a few words with her.

"You need not fear us young one, we will not harm you." And at that the elf turned to leave, as he was turning to leave he saw the blood running down her wrists, and he frowned.

She watched as her captors took turns staying up that night. Kailani didn't sleep at all, she just glared her three captors; keeping her back pressed up against a tree. As a warm morning light filled the woods she saw the elf walking toward her once more. He walked up and sat down next to her, and reached for her wrists. As he reached for her she pulled back and backed away.

"Do not fear me little one I am only hear to attend your wounds,"

The elf said she still refused to let him touch her.

"Please, I promise I wont hurt you, I need to tend to your wounds, if you will not let me than I will have to take more drastic actions."

Kailani did not care for his words and ignored them. Seeing that she was not going to corporate with him the elf slowly stood and walked back to camp. It pained him to have to do this but he could not let her bleed. He had hoped that by leaving her alone the previous night she would calm down but that had not worked.

Kailani watched as the elf went back to the camp and then came back with his companions. Kailani rose to her feet, the three drew near, she turned to run and was only a few feet into her stride when she was grabbed from behind, by the elf. She struggled against him but it did no good, he forced her to the ground and straddled her stomach. He had her pined to the ground with her hands above her head. She struggled underneath him and fiercely shot her torso up in the air attempting to knock the elf off but she was met by the strength of his body pushing onto hers.

Knowing she was completely powerless under his body weight, with one last attempt for freedom she raised her legs in hope of kicking him off, but like before that failed as she felt the strength of the dwarf holding her legs to the ground. She was now completely helpless and she just sat there with tears in her eye. "Why, why where they doing this to me why" the question rang over and over again in her head. The man untied her bonds and slowly cleaned and cared for her wounds. When he was finished he instructed his two companions to stay where they where. The man moved over to her side and slowly lifted up her shirt. On her stomach was revealed a large white handprint. The man whipped his hand across it to see if it could be removed. But nothing came off; it was a mark that was IN her skin not ON it. Kailani was so over whelmed with fear that she suddenly became dizzy and she passed out.

"It is just as Gandalf had feared" the man said

Come Gimli, Legolas we must let her rest, Gandalf will be back in the morning and he will want to speak to her"