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I woke up groggy and feeling like I have gotten hit by an eighteen wheeler. I think I may have vomited because my mouth had that nasty, icky feeling and I had the sick taste in my mouth when I was conscious enough to taste it.
I was in a room, not too big, but not exactly on the small size either. Some one had lain me down on a soft bed that felt like it was made of clouds. It had a beautifully done quilt on it that was draped over me so I wouldn't get cold.
As I got up, I remembered the events of the day before. I was going to kill Rin if I ever got out of her for taking me on a boat. I groaned as I sat up and the blood rushed out of my head. I found a trunk full of clothes open at the foot of the bed. A servant girl walked in. At least, I assumed it was a girl, because she was wearing a dress. Elves didn't cross dress, did they?
"Oh, milady! You are awake!" she said, jumping when she saw me upright. "Prince Legolas sent me to help you get prepared for the meeting."
"WHAT meeting?" I started to shout, but then changed my mind mid-sentence, forgetting for the moment what had happened on the beach. "Oh… never mind, I remember now."
The girl smiled, sympathy in her eyes. "Yes, Legolas said you knew of it. Come, let me show you to the bath. I hope Amil wasn't too mean to you yesterday?"
"You know him?" I asked, asking myself in my head if I could sound any stupider to this girl who was probably centuries older than me.
"Yes, he is my brother, I am sometimes ashamed to admit." With that, the two of us fell into a comfortable silence.
After I had bathed and washed all the beach sand out of my hair, I realized I didn't know my new found companion's name. I was really trying out for the dumbest person award now.
"Umm…. Excuse me, this may sound like a dumb question and you may have already answered with me not catching it, but what is your name?" I asked feeling really stupid.
"Oh, sorry! I'm just used to every one knowing my name that I forgot to tell you it! My name is Eleanor Silverflute, Legolas's cousin." She replied, hitting her head with the heel of her hand.
"You're his cousin? But then why are you dressed as a servant, if you don't mind my asking you?" I asked, curiosity getting the best of me.
Eleanor smiled, "Because I thought that you might be a little more comfortable with a servant. Manwë says that the wind favors you. The Valior already knew that you were from a different world, but they aren't sure of what kind. They said that you would tell in your own time. I will trust them because I am only half a century old."
"Only five hundred years old! I'm only fifteen, so that's a hell of a lot of years to me!" I exclaimed in shock.
She just laughed, I had amused her greatly and was doing so more with the look on my face when I realized that she was laughing at me. I stuck out my tongue, appreciating the laughter. I was beginning to like her, even if her brother was Sir Pain in the Butt, aka Amil.
She held out a pink dress for me to wear. Not just a pink dress, but a frilly, lacy, girly, girl dress. Nuh uh, I was not going to wear that if I could help it.
"No. No offence or any thing, but I do not wear pink." I said, backing away from the thing as if it would rise up of it's own accord and attack me.
"That's okay, I wouldn't wear this thing either, but Lord Elrond thought that it might be just the thing for you. I figured that it probably wouldn't agree with you and told him so. I brought another dress with me just in case. Here it is, I hope you like green and dark brown. Will this work?" Eleanor said, showing me a dress that I would wear after putting the, for lack of better words, the thing away.
The dress was a dark forest green skirt that flowed all the way down to the ground, yet was full enough that I could easily move in it. The bodice was of dark brown leather that fit snug over my chest and had runes burned into it in a tasteful way that I couldn't help but love.
"Yes! I love green and brown is one of my favorites anyway. This will do perfectly!" I said with enthusiasm.
It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship that I would cherish forever.
Author's Note: thanks to all my reviewers!
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