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Chapter 4

It was hard for Aragorn to carry Amara and climb up the ladder to the talon. About half way up Haldir offered to carry her. Haldir had a much easier time with it though.

"It seems you have done this many times," said Strider.

" What?" asked Haldir.

" Carry someone up here," said Strider.

" If you mean carrying the wounded up, yes. Other females, no."

" Nice to know you are doing you're job," commented Strider.

When everyone was at the top, Haldir laid Amara on the floor of the talon. He and a few other elves examined her eye.

" I need to get a better look at her eye," said Haldir, " Do you think you could wake her?"

Strider went over to Amara and shook her. She flinched and then she woke. She looked at all the elves around her and was instantly scared. She tried to back away, but there were other elves behind her. She looked around and saw all these elves around her. Strider tried to get her attention by the time she started crying.

" Amara!" said Strider. He couldn't get her attention to focus on him. He then grabbed her.

" Amara! Look at me! Look in my eyes," said Strider.

She finally calmed down enough to look at Strider. She was sobbing with fear.

" It's okay. They are not here to hurt you. They are here to look at your eye," explained Strider.

" W…where are we?" asked Amara.

" Just inside the boarders of Lorien," he pointed and Haldir and said, " This is Haldir, the March warden of Lorien."

" What are they going to do to me?" asked Amara.

" They are just going to look at your eye and try to heal it if they can," explained Strider.

She looked at the rest of the elves.

" Who are these other people?"

" They are his soldiers."

" What are they doing?" asked Amara.

" The same thing that Haldir is doing, making sure that your eye is going to be fine," said Strider.

Amara let all the elves look at her eye. They made her follow fingers and look into their eyes. Haldir went over to Strider and gave him a report.

" Her eye is blind. If she is going to be fully healed she is going to need a trained healer. Lady Galadriel would be the best healer for the situation."

" Thank you Haldir," said Strider, " when are you going to head back to the city?"

" Tomorrow," said Haldir.

Amara was asleep and the other elves had gone back to their posts. Haldir and Strider were watching Amara sleep.

" I can't help but see similarities between the two of you," commented Haldir.

" What do you mean?" asked Strider.

" She has your eyes when she is scared."

" We aren't related," assured Strider.

" I understand," said Haldir backing down.

At the first light of the next day, Strider went over to wake Amara. Once awoken, he helped her down the ladder and on to the horse. Again she sat in front and Strider sat in back. The elves and Haldir also got on their horses except they rode bare- back. Strider saw Amara looking at the elves strangely and then he said,

" The elves feel that the saddle is too restricting for creatures as beautiful as the horse."

" I did not know that," said Amara.

" The elves are a fascinating race."

" I haven't ever seen elves before this," said Amara.

" I was raised by elves," said Strider.

" That must have been wonderful."

" It was."

" Are your parents elves?"

" No, my mother sent me there to protect me," explained Strider.

Amara didn't say anything else. She thought she would be too nosey and he would do something drastic to her.

They traveled all night and the next day until they reached the city. Amara was fascinated when she saw the city (with her one eye).

" Is everyone in the city an elf?" she asked.

" Yes. That is why the call it an 'Elven City."

" Right," said Amara.

Haldir lead them to the stables where the stable hand took the horses and lead them to a stall. Haldir then lead them straight a talon. The only problem Amara had was that the talon she had was in a whole other tree than that of Strider. She felt uncomfortable and insecure about going anywhere.

Haldir was at her doorway when he said,

" I will send a tailor up to your room to fit you with some suitable dresses for your stay here."

Amara nodded and Haldir started back down the stairs. She suddenly thought of a question and rushed after Haldir.

" Where is Strider?" she asked.

" He is in that talon," he said as he pointed to the next tree to Amara's right.

" Thank you," said Amara as she turned and started walking to her room.

A/N What up all you homefrys out there! How many of your parents are making you make Christmas Lists for Christmas? I hate it when my mom makes me do this because I never know what I want unless I'm at the mall. I wonder if I could ask for a boyfriend on my list? I think my mom would go ballistic! I'm not allowed to even date until I'm 16! And I have a late birthday!!! How unfair! Well at least I can make my characters have boyfriends. How did ya'll like that last chapter? Pretty short I know, but I've been working on my other stories. NO I HAVEN'T FINISHED MILITARY ELVES! I've been working on the laptop that doesn't have a disk hard drive. Well… REVIEW!!!!!!!