I'm back! Thought I was dead didn't you!
Hopefully the song lyrics will start to work now.
Chapter Seven: Mirkwood Prince
"When this began
I had nothing to say
And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me
I was confused
And I let it all out to find
That I'm not the only person with these things in mind
Inside of me
But all the vacancy the words revealed
Is the only real thing that I've got left to feel
Nothing to lose
Just stuck
hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own
I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long
Erase all the pain till it's gone
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong" - Linkin Park
It wasn't until the next day that Legolas meet up with Celebdur again.
Again he wanted an answer explanation.
The captain ushered the elf into his tent the elf had looked better, the fact was he had not had much sleep last night, "Now, what's going on?"
"Nothing, I just...worked there..."
"I don't believe you, Legolas, you never really struck me as the house-boy type."
"It's the truth-!"
"I can see through any lie my people tell me, Legolas, I thought you would that, how long have you been here?...probably near the longest of all of them. And you're the only one's story I don't really know."
"Well you know it now," Legolas wanted frantically to end the interrogation, "I worked at the palace until my parents died."
"What about that little cut on your arm? You were almost dead from it when we first found you." Celebdur said with cantankerous, not believing one word that came from the elf's mouth.
"It...was an... accident." He said not desiring and able not to look at the repugnant rupture on his skin, it virtually always veiled beneath a long shirtsleeve.
"Really?"
"You can believe what!" Legolas shouted unexpectedly with aggravation.
As he turned to leave, Celebdur went to his small bundle of belongings, he reached into a tiny pouch on the bag's side and withdrew a small trinket.
Celebdur walked up behind Legolas, and put his arm out to stop the elf. Legolas noticed a small light in the captain's hand.
Between his forefinger and thump the man held a small sliver loop.
"Before you go, I was wondering if you would recognize this ring." Celebdur said. "A 12-year old Elvin boy wore this, I don't know what happened to him, but I thought you, being an elf from Mirkwood, might know who he was, because when I looked at the inside of the band," He turned the ring and engraved on the inside of the band was a stylized leaf of a classical form. "I thought I had seen this symbol before, somewhere in Mirkwood, but I wasn't sure..."
The elf gazed at the diminutive silver thing, as if it were a gorgon's head that had turned him to stone, coyly and slowly lifted his hand to touch it.
His forefinger brushed it ever so slightly, but the instant the elf touched the bands slick sliver he acted as if were made fire and not metal.
"No!... I don't." And he pushed away the hand that held it out of the way.
The thrust was brisk and Celebdur lost his soft grip on the ring and clinked on the floor.
After Legolas had gone Celebdur knelt by the ground where the small ring had fallen. He picked it up with a sigh; he fingered the bauble and did not know what to make of the state of affairs.
"What happened to you, Mirkwood Prince?" he muttered.
TBC
'Nother evil Cliffie!
Hopefully the song lyrics will start to work now.
Chapter Seven: Mirkwood Prince
"When this began
I had nothing to say
And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me
I was confused
And I let it all out to find
That I'm not the only person with these things in mind
Inside of me
But all the vacancy the words revealed
Is the only real thing that I've got left to feel
Nothing to lose
Just stuck
hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own
I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long
Erase all the pain till it's gone
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong" - Linkin Park
It wasn't until the next day that Legolas meet up with Celebdur again.
Again he wanted an answer explanation.
The captain ushered the elf into his tent the elf had looked better, the fact was he had not had much sleep last night, "Now, what's going on?"
"Nothing, I just...worked there..."
"I don't believe you, Legolas, you never really struck me as the house-boy type."
"It's the truth-!"
"I can see through any lie my people tell me, Legolas, I thought you would that, how long have you been here?...probably near the longest of all of them. And you're the only one's story I don't really know."
"Well you know it now," Legolas wanted frantically to end the interrogation, "I worked at the palace until my parents died."
"What about that little cut on your arm? You were almost dead from it when we first found you." Celebdur said with cantankerous, not believing one word that came from the elf's mouth.
"It...was an... accident." He said not desiring and able not to look at the repugnant rupture on his skin, it virtually always veiled beneath a long shirtsleeve.
"Really?"
"You can believe what!" Legolas shouted unexpectedly with aggravation.
As he turned to leave, Celebdur went to his small bundle of belongings, he reached into a tiny pouch on the bag's side and withdrew a small trinket.
Celebdur walked up behind Legolas, and put his arm out to stop the elf. Legolas noticed a small light in the captain's hand.
Between his forefinger and thump the man held a small sliver loop.
"Before you go, I was wondering if you would recognize this ring." Celebdur said. "A 12-year old Elvin boy wore this, I don't know what happened to him, but I thought you, being an elf from Mirkwood, might know who he was, because when I looked at the inside of the band," He turned the ring and engraved on the inside of the band was a stylized leaf of a classical form. "I thought I had seen this symbol before, somewhere in Mirkwood, but I wasn't sure..."
The elf gazed at the diminutive silver thing, as if it were a gorgon's head that had turned him to stone, coyly and slowly lifted his hand to touch it.
His forefinger brushed it ever so slightly, but the instant the elf touched the bands slick sliver he acted as if were made fire and not metal.
"No!... I don't." And he pushed away the hand that held it out of the way.
The thrust was brisk and Celebdur lost his soft grip on the ring and clinked on the floor.
After Legolas had gone Celebdur knelt by the ground where the small ring had fallen. He picked it up with a sigh; he fingered the bauble and did not know what to make of the state of affairs.
"What happened to you, Mirkwood Prince?" he muttered.
TBC
'Nother evil Cliffie!