Into the West
Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
Night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
Dream -- of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across a distant shore
Why do you weep?
What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see
All of your fears will pass away
Safe in my arms
You're only sleeping
What can you see
On the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea
A pale moon rises
The ships have come
To carry you home
And all will turn to silver glass
A light on the water
All souls pass
Hope fades
Into the world of night
Through shadows falling
Out of memory and time
Don't say
We have come now to the end
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping
What can you see
On the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea
A pale moon rises
The ships have come
To carry you home
And all will turn to silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the West
Name: Trinity
Meaning: Holy three
Elvish: Aineldiel
Pronounce: Eye-nehl-dee-ell
Name given to the elves: Ithilelen
Meaning: Star of the Moon, lit:Moon-star
Name: Samantha
Meaning: Listener of God
Elvish: Erulastiel
Pronounce: Air-oo-lahs-tee-ell
Trinity and Samantha shivered (more out of fright then of the cold) as they sat on a bed of autumn leaves, in the middle of a birch forest.
"Where are we?" Trinity asked. It was odd, Samantha was over at Trinity's house that night, then they woke up and they were here, in the middle of know-where.
"I have no idea, looks harmless though." Sam, always looking at the bright side of things… Trinity thought. I bet not now… She heard voiced, speaking in another language, soft and fluid. (AN: guess what this race is…) Within seconds, the people found them, huddled on the leaves. They were elves… (AN: wow! you guesses right! I hope)
"What…?" Samantha gasped. Her eyes widened as she spotted their pointy ears and gasped again, "Elves!" The first elf just blinked at her. She fell quiet, shivering.
"What are two humans doing in the realm of the Lord Elrond?" The blinking elf asked swiftly in Common/English. (AN: for this story, English is the same as Common, even though they are not)
"What? Elrond?" Trinity said, with a blank look on her face. Wow, I sound dumb. She thought lamely.
"I see…-" The elf started.
"-No, wait! We know Elrond! Well rather of Elrond…" Sam gasped suddenly, seemly out of her "trance".
The elf gave her a look, and turned to the others. After a minute or two of them speaking rapidly in Elvish, Sindarian, Trinity thought with an inner shiver, they were elves, real live elves. She clutched the black bound book by her side, 'The Lord of the Rings' book. Oh no, oh no…
The first elf turned around, "We have decided to take you to home of the Lord Elrond." Sam's heart beat faster, and she clutched her hand to stop them from shaking. "But," the elf continued. "It is only because you are but children and we can tell that you are harmless and do not hold the aura evil. Now, gather your things and come with us. But first, what shall we call you?"
"Um…Aineldiel. Trinity said without thinking. "No. Wait, star-moon…" She did not yet want to give out her real name. "Um…yes, Ithilelen." For some reason she did not want them to call her Aineldiel, her real elvish name…
"Ai, and you little one?" The elf turned to Sam, she was smaller then Trinity and sometimes reminded her of a Hobbit.
"Erulastiel." She said suddenly with out thinking, but it seemed right, some how, she did not mind them calling her by her elvish name... The elves smiled.
"You have chosen elven names, you must indeed know something of us." Trinity and Sam smiled nervously.
"Ya, some things…"
"Oh!" Trinity gasped and stared in to the distance, suddenly grasping her left shoulder. Every thing then went black.