A/N: Well, here's the next chapter, a little late but here. I'm sorry but I've been a little busy… I picked up extra hours at work because one of the other girls has had to take the last few weeks off sick. So, please leave us a review about anything you like, dislike… or wanna see. ^_^!

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The Hobbits shared one talan with Sinn and Shenaux while the other members of their group shared yet another talan. Sinn had climbed down the ladder and was now sitting near a small pool of water. Her short swords lay beside her. She was deep in thought, thinking over all of the times Shenaux skittered away from Haldir or shrank away from him. It was rather confusing, but understandable. She heard a slight rustling of leaves and knew that one of the Elves were coming up behind her and who ever it was didn't want to startle her.

She caught the familiar sent of earth and woods upon the light breeze and realised that it was Legolas that was coming to talk with her. She sighed. She had tried to avoid him for a while, ever since the time when he called her a mere child, but the circumstances were against her and she always seemed to be saved by him.

"Lady Sinn?" Legolas questioned softly as he stood behind her.

"Hello Prince Legolas. Is there anything I can do for you?" She asked him, using his title because he seemed hell bent on using a title on her.

"You do not have to call me prince. I would prefer it if you didn't actually." Legolas sighed.

"I'll keep using your title, your highness, until you stop calling me 'lady'. Ever since that time on the mountain, you have been using a title with me, but never with Shenaux. Tell me, is that how you treat 'children'?"

"May I sit down?" He asked.

"How can I refuse royalty?" She said in a very un-polite tone of voice.

"Easily, just tell me no." The Elf Prince told her. "I want to apologise to you." He said finally as he sat down.

"Why would you want to apologise to me? Adults don't have to apologise to children." She stood up and grabbed her blades.

"Please Sinn." He begged as he grabbed her hand before she was able to leave the area. "Can you please just hear me out?"

"Why should I? Why should I hear you out when all you're going to do is call me a mere child again?"

Legolas was quickly on his feet and looked her in the eye. "I am very sorry for that Sinn. I do not know what came over me. You were hurt and I just couldn't get you to understand that you needed to rest or it would have got worse. Giz said that you could have died."

"All the better for you to have just let me be!" She snapped at him.

His eyes widened. "Why would you want to die Sinn? Why would you want to leave your friends? What would make you want to stop living? To never see another sunrise, or sunset? To never laugh, or sing, or feel the breeze upon your face when you are riding a horse? How can you leave that?"

"Simple. I just leave. I lost my love Legolas, how would you feel if the one person you loved more than life itself died and left you with all the painfully happy memories of your past together? How would you be able to live each day when it reminds you that you should have died as well? Ransom died protecting me, and I live with that guilt each day of my life."

"Tell me Sinn," Legolas said as he made her look at him by lifting her chin up. "Would you have sacrificed your life to save Ransom's if the circumstances were different?"

"Of course I would!"

"Would you have wanted him to live a life feeling that it was his fault that you were killed? Would you have wanted him to go on mourning you? Would you have wanted him to give up on life and wish for death? Do you honestly think that he wants you to be like this? Wouldn't he have wanted you to be the person he loved and gave up his life to protect so that others could feel the loving warmth you offer?"

Sinn looked into his eyes and then she began to sob and she felt herself being pulled into his arms as he hugged her. She clung onto him as if life itself depended on it and she sobbed out all of her grief and sorrow. She cried out all of the painful days behind her. She cried for the person she was. She just cried and Legolas held her through it all, whispering to her in Elvish and stroking her hair.

Finally she stopped crying and felt rather weak and tired so she sat back down beside the small pool with Legolas sitting beside her, still holding her in his arms.

"Are you all right now?" He asked her softly.

"I can't believe that I couldn't see how I was acting." She whispered to him. "I have been so selfish, locking myself up in my prison of grief."

"But you do not have to worry about that any longer." He told her as he brushed away some stray tears from her face. "You are out of your prison of grief now, correct?" At her nod he continued. "Then all you have to do is to live life to the fullest every day. Love everything and everyone around you and you shall always be carefree and happy, and maybe Ransom's soul can finally rest in peace now that you are over your grief."

"Mmmm-hmmm." She said as her eyelids drooped until she finally fell asleep in Legolas' arms, cuddling into his warmth.

Legolas kissed the top of her head. "Sleep well, little one." He whispered as he sat there for a long moment before finally picking her up and bringing her back to her talan, her swords were hanging loosely in her grasp.

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