2. The Realization
I waited
several minutes after an unhappy Rren and a disappointed grandfather
had left my cousin's quarters. I then entered the flower scent
corridor and it was then that I drew the door from my cloak to have a
better look at it. 'Hobbits,' I thought to myself, 'Ah yes we
had studied them just last year in class though no one knew much
about them, it seems that they're more legend than truth.' It was
then that I recalled a bed time story that my mother used to tell me
'How did it go again?...something about a hobbit and a ring or
something.. like that, oh well it really didn't matter it was just
a story my mom would tell me when I was young to put me to sleep.'
I sighed, I really didn't know why it bothered my so much that I
couldn't remember some silly fairy story from my past. I continued
down the cheery corridor and I let my thoughts wonder to the day's
lesson on magic, my instructor had said I was doing quite well. My
choker then fell from my neck and I went to pick it up as I gently
picked it up I went over the design with my finger gently, it really
was well made. As I gazed down at the choker's design I didn't
see the hurrying elf coming right towards me and so I soon found my
myself on the floor face down to my dismay. I quickly got up and
picked up the book not realizing that a page fell from it and now lay
on the floor. No, my attention had been diverted towards the one I
had run into for my previous thoughts that it where a fellow elf
where quite wrong for whom stood before me now was a man no elf.
"Pardon me," he apologized, "Do you know where Galima is?"
It took me quite a few minutes to recover from my
dumbfoundedness for this man had taken me by surprise not only
because he was a man but because he had also just spoken to me in
Elfish.
"Yes," I finally answered, "In fact Galima is my
mother, she's in the library just down the hall, and you do not
need to ask for pardon for it was my fault I was not paying attention
to where I was going." The man nodded at this and after a quick
smile and thank you he disappeared down the hall into the library.
The whole situation puzzled me greatly but I soon shrugged it off,
'Just because men are not usually found here doesn't mean I
should be suspicious when one is,' I reasoned with myself. Pleased
with my own explanation I placed the book back in my cloak and
continued down to the Great Hall where dinner was now being prepared.