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Chapter 30

The next morning dawned clear and crisp. The warming rays of the sun shone through the window giving anything in its path a golden glow. Birds chirped, dancing merrily through the air swooping low over the heads of waking Rohanians, walking to work at the smithing hut down the road or hanging laundry that had been washed and soaking the night before.

One particularly bright ray of the golden sunshine shone directly into the eyes of a certain late-sleeping Elf, though obscured by the figure still standing at the window causing him to wince and sit up and shade them with his slender hand. His hair was untidy and his eyes dropping. Rubbing his eyes he got out of bed and got out of his sleeping clothes and into his regular leggings and matching tunic, having forgotten the completely still woman at the window. He then crossed the room, opened the door and slipped out with the intentions to go to the bathroom down the hall and fix his hair, wash his face and such.

Once Legolas was gone Aradel walked from the window and lazily fell back onto her unused bed. She pondered for a moment why she hadn't had the urge to sleep for so long but upon remembering why discarded the thought. She missed the sweet unconscious surrender of sleep, dreaming sweet dreams but lately her dreams were not so privileged as to be so sweet. In fact even when she was awake, now, she envisioned the same terrifying scenes that so frequently entered her dreams. How she dreaded those scenes.

Some of those scenes weren't even that bad but left a bad aura around her. For example: A meadow with two people walking through it slowly and leisurely, laughing playfully. But when it was over her head felt heavy and burdened with a prick of pain in the very center of her brain. She felt tired and sluggish as though she had just run many leagues through the hot summer sun. And as each day passed, with no sleep, the feeling got worse and worse.

Her dull thoughts were abruptly interrupted by the opened of the door just the upper left of her perception. It was, unexpectedly, Aragorn.

"Oh good you're up." He glanced around, seeing the passed out Pippin and missing Legolas, "Where is Legolas?"

"He went to the washroom to clean up. Why are you here?" she asked inquisitively sitting up and turning to face him.

"Looking for Legolas."

"Why?"

"My reasons are my own." He said slowly retreating towards the door. "Well I bid you good day, Aradel."

He turned to leave but turned back at the last moment. "By the way you look horrible."

She smiled sarcastically and waved him out. Once the door was closed she heard soft voices from behind it and then it opened once more. Legolas walked in, hair brushed, face washed and other wise over all cleaned up and much more refreshed looking. Leaving the door wide open he walked in and sat on his bed, facing her.

"What are you planning to do today? I have many hours until our meeting with Theoden." He asked.

"Close the door will you." She ordered absent-mindedly.

"What?"

"You know, Legolas, the door. The large wooden thing that stops there being a hole in the wall." She sat up and looked at him with raised eyebrows.

"Oh, right." He said with a chuckle and did as he was told.

"Now what do you mean meeting? Why wasn't I invited?" the woman narrowed her eyes skeptically.

"Well we debated whether you should come or not. Theoden said it was up to us, by the way. We voted and the majority of us agreed that you would be better resting then sitting around while we talked about what to do about wars and such." He stood and started to pace. The Elf seemed to have some extra energy that needed to be used before he found himself twiddling his hair with his fingers in a most feminine way.

"And what did you vote?"

"I voted against you coming. You're to tired, more like exhausted; I honestly don't know what's come over you. Usually you can go weeks without sleep and still be more energetic than everyone around you. Even Pippin and that's saying something." He replied turning with a twist at the end of his pacing track. "Now what were you planning to do today?"

"Well I was planning to lay here on my bed, alone, mulling over why certain groups of people don't want me at meetings."

He made a noise in his throat of annoyance but continued on without much notice. "Wonderful, being alone makes time for thinking about things that aren't usually thought of in company. Unfortunately you shall not be thinking them as you will have company." She groaned. "Me." He smiled gleefully.

"I don't have a choice do I?"

"No."

"So no matter what I say you will be staying in this room no matter what." She inquired standing up and putting an agitated hand on her hip.

"Precisely."

"Well don't let me get in the way of your fun." She said and strode to the door, opened it, and just as she was closing it poked her head in. "Of course you can't expect me to stay. When I say I want to be alone I mean it, dear Legolas." So with a rather more evil smile then she had anticipated she closed the door and was off down the corridor.

A/N: I know i know it's short but i don't really care right now so ya. It's supposed to be that way. Well I have nothing else to say.

Muddie21: Oh has a new rule or something. If it's not fixed this time then i know what to do to fix it so don't worry. :D