Chapter 56: Safe Elfling
"Legolas! Legolas, sweetie, please, please wake up!"
Haldir's stomach hurt badly from the berries and he was catching a cold for certain, as would the elfling. Thinking of the elfling catching a cold was not joyful for Haldir, so he gathered his clothing up and wrapped the wet Legolas up with his clothes, then removing his last tunic layer and tying it around Legolas like a belt.
Haldir's chest was freezing but he cared too much for the child to care. He gently rocked Legolas in his arms, and soon the elfling was awake.
"Hal!"
Legolas rubbed his head against the March warden's chest to show his affection. He could see the blood dripping from Haldir's nose.
"Awe you dying Hal? Oh no! Don't die!"
"I'm not. Just a nosebleed is all I have Legolas."
"Can we play more?"
"No! Sorry Greenleaf, but as you can see I am just dressed in my leggings and it is snowing! I am terribly cold and we will both have a cold and-
Legolas ate a handful of the crushed berries. "Go on Hal... I listening!"
"....Now we shall both have the stomach flu too."
"What's that?"
"Never you mind for now."
Haldir went over to the llama and led the new llama and Legolas home, where Galion immediately tended to the shivering, topless Haldir.
To Be Continued...