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Chapter 2

"What in Arda were you thinking!" Tolúviel exclaimed. Thranduil looked up from his scrolls.

"What are you talking about, my daughter?" he asked. Tolúviel looked as if she was about to explode.

"Do you not know what you said to Legolas this morning!" she cried. Thranduil paled.

"Ai! He told you, didn't he?" he exclaimed. Tolúviel rolled her eyes.

"No, the wind told me. Of course he told me!" she replied, a bit sarcastically. "WHY IN ARDA DID YOU SAY THOSE HORRIBLE THINGS TO HIM!"

"I have my reasons," Thranduil replied, irritated by his daughter's yelling. "He was questioning my orders."

"That was no reason for you to say those things to him!" she exclaimed.

"I have my reasons! Legolas is going to the patrol south tomorrow! No questions asked! Now get out! I need to finish my work!" he pointed towards the doorway. Tolúviel fumed as she walked out. Thranduil sighed and got back to work even though he was more distracted now.

Ohtar and Fallaner flinched as they heard their sister's ranting.

"Oh, she's in a bad mood today," Ohtar replied as they saw their fuming sister storming towards them.

"So, sister, how was the talk with Adar?" Fallaner asked. Tolúviel glared at him.

"Do you really need to ask?" she exclaimed. Ohtar and Fallaner grinned and nodded their heads. "Come let us help our brother pack his things for tomorrow." Tolúviel said, exasperatedly. The twins looked confused.

"Tomorrow? He's going again tomorrow?" Ohtar exclaimed. "He just came back!"

"I know, yet Father refuses to let him stay longer. Legolas now thinks that Adar hates him for that reason," Tolúviel replied, calmer. The twins shook their heads.

"Then let's go and have a nice talk with our brother, mayhap he will change his mind about father."

Legolas glared at all the warriors of Mirkwood that gathered around him. He looked angry on the outside, but on the inside he was hurt. I can't believe that's really how he thinks about me. I guess I really don't know him that well. He thought sadly. He sighed inwardly. It's better to get this over with.

"We head out tomorrow, be ready at the gate by dawn, we will ride for Southern Mirkwood," Legolas said, a bit stonily. The warriors nodded and headed to their families to tell them.

"Legolas?" he turned around to meet a pair of identical faces. He glared at them.

"What do you want!" he growled. The twins looked at each other.

He's never this mad Ohtar said to Fallaner through their mental link.

Well he just found out that well… father dislikes him Fallaner replied.

It isn't his fault. He was just an elfling. Ohtar said, a bit angrily. Tolúviel coughed. The twins snapped back to reality.

"Um…. Legolas, we heard what Adar said to you," Ohtar began. Legolas turned his head away.

"And we think you shouldn't take it seriously, he's just stressed from work," Fallaner said. "Don't go, Legolas, there is too much orc activity in the South."

"And what? Have another captain go in my place? No, my mind is made and I won't change it," Legolas said, stubbornly. "I'm going tomorrow and nobody's stopping me."