Until We Meet Again

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Chapter 6

Legolas placed the leaves against the human's wound.  He could tell the mortal was close to death.  His eyes were open but did not appear to be looking at anything.  Worst of all a strange green tint seemed just below the surface.  He had never seen a wound like this.  It chilled him to the bone.  His medicine would take the pain away, but he knew not how to treat the wound.  Aragorn's only hope was to fight the poison on his own. 

Aragorn's mind swam in a flow of images, some from his own past, images of himself as a child.  Others a convoluted mixture of past and present that he had never lived.  He saw himself atop a horse riding into battle along side people he never met.  He saw through the eyes of other men who lived generations before him.  At times there was darkness and at other times the light shone so brightly he tried to block it with his arms.  No matter how hard he tried though he could not lift his hand to shield his eyes. 

Legolas sat by the fireside watching the human toss and turn in a fitful sleep.  Several times he had thought to simply leave him, but something inside him would not allow it.  Aragorn was losing strength fast, he could see him trying to lift his hands to defend himself, from what Legolas did not know.  He could see that nearly all of the mortal's strength was gone.  The wound was no longer growing, but it was also not getting any smaller.  The Ranger's eyes were still wide open with a strange dreamlike quality.

Aragorn was stunned to see a woman appear before him in his dream.  He was not sure who she was.  He at once found her beautiful, and yet he could not see her face.  Her words called to him.  She spoke so quietly that at first only he could only hear intermittent words, "destiny….future……only hope…….unite……." Aragorn tried to pull himself closer to the ghostly image.  "Who are you?" he called.  Strangely enough her voice got louder, "you must do this together…..you are the only hope…."  Almost as quickly as she arrived, she vanished before his eyes.

Legolas was startled out of his thoughts as Aragorn sat bolt upright.  "No… don't leave!" the man shouted. 

"I will not leave you," Legolas answered rushing to Aragorn's side.  The ranger turned to face him as if just realizing the elf was there.  Legolas placed his hands behind Aragorn's back just in time to catch the human as he finally fell into a restful sleep.   Legolas unwrapped the bandage to discover that the blackness of the wound was finally starting to fade.  "You are far stronger than you look Dunedain."