A/N: My goodness, it's amazing what a few exams does for your inspiration.
It seems as though the closer I get to an exam the more ideas I get...
Gotta love that procastination! I hate exams! Oh well, its good for you
guys because I get inspired. Bad for me because I may fail... Nah. It'll be
good. Anyway just in case anyone is interested I've written chapter ten and
eleven too and it is quite possible that they will be posted in the next
few days or so, if not today. Chapter eleven is kind of a weird chapter,
but anyway it will be up soon I hope.. Anyway I hope you enjoy this one.
By the way, I should have answered this a while ago sokochan fairies walk around like normal people and elves and stuff.. Although they walk a lot lighter than most people. They only fly when they are in a hurry or when they need to. Hope that answers it.
Cheers,
Louise Blue.
Chapter Nine: Leavetakings
Three days after their fairy wedding, Legolas and Celebfaer began to prepare to leave the city. They had woken up quite late compared with what they had been like before they were wedded. In fact the suns rays shining into the room had woken them up.
The previous day they had finally emerged from their room, both of them glowing and any who saw them walking together had smiled at them knowingly, which of course had caused Celebfaer's cheeks to turn red and Legolas to laugh at her modesty. Although every time Elysa passed them in the halls she had sneered or muttered something under her breath about useless 'Elves'. Although that night when they had been at dinner, the Queen had commented on the fact that they had spent more than a whole day in Celebfaer's rooms.
"Could it be true what they say about Elvish stamina?" The Queen had asked and this time it was Legolas who had blushed so profusely that the tips of his ears had turned red too. Something that would have been hidden if only his hair was its original length, but because it was now short, Celebfaer was able to laugh at him this time for his modesty.
Celebfaer was sitting at the dresser in the room and she smiled now as she remembered Elysa's disgusted look as she had left the dinner table in protest. But Legolas saw her smile from where he was lying on the bed, watching her intently as he often did these days.
"Melamin something amuses you?" He asked, smiling at her too.
"I was just thinking on last night. Elysa was not to impressed." She replied as she finished putting her hair up.
"She was just jealous." Legolas said, getting up and walking over to where she was sitting in front of the mirror. Once there he wrapped his arms around her from behind, resting his head on her shoulder as he looked at her in the mirror. "She does not have what we have, melamin." He said looking into her eyes through the mirror and Celebfaer smiled at him.
"Sabin tried to give it to her..." She started but Legolas cut her off.
"But she rejected him before he could try. She was not content with him." Legolas added, but they both knew why that was without having to say it.
"We headed that way once." She replied turning from the mirror to look at him and not his reflection.
"It is fortunate for me that Haldir is a wise elf and that Mildred realized he was fighting a battle he could not win." Legolas replied and she stood up as he wrapped his arms around her waist. "Melamin you complete me." He said softly as he leaned down and kissed her.
"And you complete me. If you died I would not be able to live." She said. "That is why I tried so hard to save you from sorrow."
"I am glad that you did." He replied with a smile but before Celebfaer could say anything in response, a knock came at the door.
"Who comes?" Celebfaer called, as Legolas unwrapped himself from her and walked over to the wardrobe to finish dressing.
"Celebfaer are you awake?" The Queen's voice called through softly and Celebfaer threw a desperate look to Legolas, who had just finished pulling on his tunic. He did not need to brush his hair because it was now so short, but he still looked as though he had just gotten out of bed, which of course he had.
"Yes mother, just a moment and I will see you." Celebfaer called, then she ran lightly over to where Legolas was standing and she smoothed his clothes out, before she went to the door and opened it.
There was a tray outside the door that had what Celebfaer assumed would have been breakfast, but it was so late in the day that the food had gone cold. The Queen stood behind the tray and she threw Celebfaer a questioning look when she answered the door.
"I am sorry to disturb you daughter, but I wish to have a word. We can walk through the gardens if here is inappropriate." Her mother said and Celebfaer shook her head then opened the door further.
"Come in mother."
Thankfully, Legolas had done a quick clean up of the room, throwing clothes into the laundry basket and drawing the curtains on the bed. So, when Celebfaer turned around and saw what he had done she nodded approvingly to him.
"Legolas. I do hope I have not interrupted." The Queen said with a smile and Legolas shook his head.
"To what do we owe the pleasure, your highness?" Legolas asked and Asura laughed, looking they elf up and down before she spoke.
"Always charming." She said then she turned to Celebfaer. "I can see how he won your heart."
"Flattery is not his only quality mother."
"Indeed." The Queen said taking in the room. "But what I wanted to talk to you about Celebfaer was the issue of your departure. Rosa tells me that you have requested for her to ask the kitchen for provisions for a two-month journey. You intend to travel back to Eryn Lasgalen then? So soon?"
"Legolas needs to return to his father. The Elves are beginning to travel to Valinor and Legolas needs to return before his father leaves." Celebfaer told her mother and Legolas came to stand beside her, taking her hand and entwining his fingers through hers. If the Queen noticed she did not comment. Since their wedding they had never been seen out of arms reach of each other, as was expected and most newly wed fairies liked to be in constant contact with their partner. It was part of the bond, so most expected the sort of behavior Celebfaer and Legolas were exhibiting.
"The truth Celebfaer will not hurt you." The Queen said now, looking straight at Celebfaer and she blinked, a little shocked at being caught out in her half-truth. Her mother always had a gift of being able to tell when she was lying, even when she had been a child.
"Mother we have been away from Eryn Lasgalen for over a year. I am sure that Thranduil wishes to see his son." Celebfaer said, trying to act as though it was the real reason but the Queen sighed then walked over to the window, pulling the drape down altogether, as she looked out down to the city where many fairies were running about, going about their daily lives.
"I did not become Queen by being foolish daughter. Now either you tell me the truth about why you wish to leave or I will seal the gateway and prevent you."
"You can try mother, but I will find a way to leave. I must leave now, you must understand that, but when I can, I will return."
"Why is it so important for you to leave, when you could establish your kingdom here like you should be doing? I am tired Celebfaer and I am ready for a rest." The Queen said and at the moment Celebfaer looked at her and she realized that her mother was in fact old. It wasn't obvious in the way that she looked, but her eyes showed age well beyond what the body suggested.
"Mother I am to have a child." Celebfaer said, not looking at her mother, because she did not know how she would react and the Queen looked at her in surprise.
"So soon after your wedding? Surely you cannot know for certain yet." She said and then she realized what it meant that Celebfaer was so sure. "It was conceived before the wedding?" Her mother asked and Celebfaer nodded.
"We are wedded by Elvish lore. It is not such a sin." Legolas said holding his head high, he would defend anything that Celebfaer's mother threw at them and it made her happy to know that he supported her and she was not alone. The Queen turned to look at Legolas, her face revealing nothing of her thoughts.
"I did not say it was." She replied then she turned to look at Celebfaer again. "You know that the last fairy woman that conceived a child to an elf died in childbirth?"
"Yes."
"Yet you still want to leave? Why?"
"In Eryn Lasgalen if the child is born with or without wings it will be accepted by the Elves and if I am weakened by the birth then none will try to take advantage of my weakness." Celebfaer said, but she did not look at her mother and she squeezed Legolas' hand, glad that he was there.
"The Elves do not know the correct ways of healing a fairy. Particularly after childbirth. Celebfaer, a fairy is very different to an elf..." The Queen started and Celebfaer nodded, she had already prepared for this argument.
"That is why I will ask you that you allow me to take Rosa with me. She was there at Mildred's birth, so she can help if something goes wrong." Celebfaer said and Asura sighed.
"Rosa is old."
"Yet her body is still young. She wishes to travel, she told me herself and I have already discussed asked her if she would come. She has made her own decision to come with us. She could teach the Elves and they could teach her, mother you must let her come."
The Queen considered what Celebfaer had just said for a few seconds before she replied. "I will allow you to take her. I cannot risk your death a second time."
"We shall depart at sundown today." Legolas said suddenly and Celebfaer looked up at him then nodded. "I shall go and tell Rosa." He added, leaving her with her mother.
"I am scared for you daughter."
"I am scared also mother, but if Rosa is there, she may help the elvish healers somehow."
"A Fairy is different to an Elf, Celebfaer. You forget that because you are so much like an Elf yourself..." The Queen said, trailing off and shaking her head before she looked at Celebfaer again. "Rosa may believe she is young, but her mind is old. She was at Mildred's birth, she was to be his nurse... During the labor a fairy must link her mind with another present so that she may draw strength from them. Because the body is weakened, the mind is also so it is necessary for us to link with a woman that is of similar strength. They do not know why but when Mildred was born it was as though two souls were brought into the world at once. Mildred's mother had linked with Rosa, though Rosa was only just recently of age. But his mind was so strong that once he was born, he burnt out all of his mother's strength and because they were linked, much of Rosa's strength left her too. It has caused Rosa to appear a lot older than she is, speeding up the aging process."
"Then I shall link with Legolas. If we are to grow old and diminish we will grow old together. He will not allow me to do it alone or endanger another."
"Men are not allowed in the birthing chamber."
"Then he will stand outside the door and I will link with him. Mother nothing will stop me from having this child and I will live." Celebfaer said and her mother nodded, a smile forming on her face.
"You have a strong mind daughter. Your teachers always told me so. They said you would be able to accomplish many spells that had not been known since before we were exiled the first time. Mildred tells me that you killed a cave troll with command once and that you taught him healing when you were badly wounded."
"The mind and the body are separate to a certain degree mother. It is just a matter of realizing the potential your mind has and using that. Elves taught me that. They are not a race to be underestimated mother."
"Still I fear for you. How many months are you?"
"Almost two. Which is why we need to return to Eryn Lasgalen so quickly."
"I understand daughter. But before you leave I ask you one thing." Asura said and Celebfaer looked at her waiting to hear what she would say. "I ask only that you return to the realm within twenty years for I am tired and when you come back to claim the throne I shall leave the realm."
"I shall mother. Within twenty years I shall return, with Legolas or alone, but I shall return." Celebfaer said and her mother nodded
"Thank you daughter." The Queen said then she turned and walked from the room.
So before Celebfaer knew what was happening she, Legolas and Rosa were sitting on top of their horses, Rosa leading the pack horse and they were riding off towards the gateway, escorted by a group of the Queen's guard; Sabin at the head.
When they reached the gateway, Sabin pulled his horse up beside hers.
"I will miss your company. Yours also Legolas." Sabin said and Celebfaer nodded as Legolas clasped him on the shoulder.
"We will meet again Sabin." Legolas said and Sabin nodded.
"I hope that your journey is swift and safe. Farewell." Sabin said then he muttered the word to open the gateway before he turned his horse and started the trek back to the city.
So, they urged their horses forward glad to finally be on their way back to Eryn Lasgalen, the place Celebfaer considered to be home.
By the way, I should have answered this a while ago sokochan fairies walk around like normal people and elves and stuff.. Although they walk a lot lighter than most people. They only fly when they are in a hurry or when they need to. Hope that answers it.
Cheers,
Louise Blue.
Chapter Nine: Leavetakings
Three days after their fairy wedding, Legolas and Celebfaer began to prepare to leave the city. They had woken up quite late compared with what they had been like before they were wedded. In fact the suns rays shining into the room had woken them up.
The previous day they had finally emerged from their room, both of them glowing and any who saw them walking together had smiled at them knowingly, which of course had caused Celebfaer's cheeks to turn red and Legolas to laugh at her modesty. Although every time Elysa passed them in the halls she had sneered or muttered something under her breath about useless 'Elves'. Although that night when they had been at dinner, the Queen had commented on the fact that they had spent more than a whole day in Celebfaer's rooms.
"Could it be true what they say about Elvish stamina?" The Queen had asked and this time it was Legolas who had blushed so profusely that the tips of his ears had turned red too. Something that would have been hidden if only his hair was its original length, but because it was now short, Celebfaer was able to laugh at him this time for his modesty.
Celebfaer was sitting at the dresser in the room and she smiled now as she remembered Elysa's disgusted look as she had left the dinner table in protest. But Legolas saw her smile from where he was lying on the bed, watching her intently as he often did these days.
"Melamin something amuses you?" He asked, smiling at her too.
"I was just thinking on last night. Elysa was not to impressed." She replied as she finished putting her hair up.
"She was just jealous." Legolas said, getting up and walking over to where she was sitting in front of the mirror. Once there he wrapped his arms around her from behind, resting his head on her shoulder as he looked at her in the mirror. "She does not have what we have, melamin." He said looking into her eyes through the mirror and Celebfaer smiled at him.
"Sabin tried to give it to her..." She started but Legolas cut her off.
"But she rejected him before he could try. She was not content with him." Legolas added, but they both knew why that was without having to say it.
"We headed that way once." She replied turning from the mirror to look at him and not his reflection.
"It is fortunate for me that Haldir is a wise elf and that Mildred realized he was fighting a battle he could not win." Legolas replied and she stood up as he wrapped his arms around her waist. "Melamin you complete me." He said softly as he leaned down and kissed her.
"And you complete me. If you died I would not be able to live." She said. "That is why I tried so hard to save you from sorrow."
"I am glad that you did." He replied with a smile but before Celebfaer could say anything in response, a knock came at the door.
"Who comes?" Celebfaer called, as Legolas unwrapped himself from her and walked over to the wardrobe to finish dressing.
"Celebfaer are you awake?" The Queen's voice called through softly and Celebfaer threw a desperate look to Legolas, who had just finished pulling on his tunic. He did not need to brush his hair because it was now so short, but he still looked as though he had just gotten out of bed, which of course he had.
"Yes mother, just a moment and I will see you." Celebfaer called, then she ran lightly over to where Legolas was standing and she smoothed his clothes out, before she went to the door and opened it.
There was a tray outside the door that had what Celebfaer assumed would have been breakfast, but it was so late in the day that the food had gone cold. The Queen stood behind the tray and she threw Celebfaer a questioning look when she answered the door.
"I am sorry to disturb you daughter, but I wish to have a word. We can walk through the gardens if here is inappropriate." Her mother said and Celebfaer shook her head then opened the door further.
"Come in mother."
Thankfully, Legolas had done a quick clean up of the room, throwing clothes into the laundry basket and drawing the curtains on the bed. So, when Celebfaer turned around and saw what he had done she nodded approvingly to him.
"Legolas. I do hope I have not interrupted." The Queen said with a smile and Legolas shook his head.
"To what do we owe the pleasure, your highness?" Legolas asked and Asura laughed, looking they elf up and down before she spoke.
"Always charming." She said then she turned to Celebfaer. "I can see how he won your heart."
"Flattery is not his only quality mother."
"Indeed." The Queen said taking in the room. "But what I wanted to talk to you about Celebfaer was the issue of your departure. Rosa tells me that you have requested for her to ask the kitchen for provisions for a two-month journey. You intend to travel back to Eryn Lasgalen then? So soon?"
"Legolas needs to return to his father. The Elves are beginning to travel to Valinor and Legolas needs to return before his father leaves." Celebfaer told her mother and Legolas came to stand beside her, taking her hand and entwining his fingers through hers. If the Queen noticed she did not comment. Since their wedding they had never been seen out of arms reach of each other, as was expected and most newly wed fairies liked to be in constant contact with their partner. It was part of the bond, so most expected the sort of behavior Celebfaer and Legolas were exhibiting.
"The truth Celebfaer will not hurt you." The Queen said now, looking straight at Celebfaer and she blinked, a little shocked at being caught out in her half-truth. Her mother always had a gift of being able to tell when she was lying, even when she had been a child.
"Mother we have been away from Eryn Lasgalen for over a year. I am sure that Thranduil wishes to see his son." Celebfaer said, trying to act as though it was the real reason but the Queen sighed then walked over to the window, pulling the drape down altogether, as she looked out down to the city where many fairies were running about, going about their daily lives.
"I did not become Queen by being foolish daughter. Now either you tell me the truth about why you wish to leave or I will seal the gateway and prevent you."
"You can try mother, but I will find a way to leave. I must leave now, you must understand that, but when I can, I will return."
"Why is it so important for you to leave, when you could establish your kingdom here like you should be doing? I am tired Celebfaer and I am ready for a rest." The Queen said and at the moment Celebfaer looked at her and she realized that her mother was in fact old. It wasn't obvious in the way that she looked, but her eyes showed age well beyond what the body suggested.
"Mother I am to have a child." Celebfaer said, not looking at her mother, because she did not know how she would react and the Queen looked at her in surprise.
"So soon after your wedding? Surely you cannot know for certain yet." She said and then she realized what it meant that Celebfaer was so sure. "It was conceived before the wedding?" Her mother asked and Celebfaer nodded.
"We are wedded by Elvish lore. It is not such a sin." Legolas said holding his head high, he would defend anything that Celebfaer's mother threw at them and it made her happy to know that he supported her and she was not alone. The Queen turned to look at Legolas, her face revealing nothing of her thoughts.
"I did not say it was." She replied then she turned to look at Celebfaer again. "You know that the last fairy woman that conceived a child to an elf died in childbirth?"
"Yes."
"Yet you still want to leave? Why?"
"In Eryn Lasgalen if the child is born with or without wings it will be accepted by the Elves and if I am weakened by the birth then none will try to take advantage of my weakness." Celebfaer said, but she did not look at her mother and she squeezed Legolas' hand, glad that he was there.
"The Elves do not know the correct ways of healing a fairy. Particularly after childbirth. Celebfaer, a fairy is very different to an elf..." The Queen started and Celebfaer nodded, she had already prepared for this argument.
"That is why I will ask you that you allow me to take Rosa with me. She was there at Mildred's birth, so she can help if something goes wrong." Celebfaer said and Asura sighed.
"Rosa is old."
"Yet her body is still young. She wishes to travel, she told me herself and I have already discussed asked her if she would come. She has made her own decision to come with us. She could teach the Elves and they could teach her, mother you must let her come."
The Queen considered what Celebfaer had just said for a few seconds before she replied. "I will allow you to take her. I cannot risk your death a second time."
"We shall depart at sundown today." Legolas said suddenly and Celebfaer looked up at him then nodded. "I shall go and tell Rosa." He added, leaving her with her mother.
"I am scared for you daughter."
"I am scared also mother, but if Rosa is there, she may help the elvish healers somehow."
"A Fairy is different to an Elf, Celebfaer. You forget that because you are so much like an Elf yourself..." The Queen said, trailing off and shaking her head before she looked at Celebfaer again. "Rosa may believe she is young, but her mind is old. She was at Mildred's birth, she was to be his nurse... During the labor a fairy must link her mind with another present so that she may draw strength from them. Because the body is weakened, the mind is also so it is necessary for us to link with a woman that is of similar strength. They do not know why but when Mildred was born it was as though two souls were brought into the world at once. Mildred's mother had linked with Rosa, though Rosa was only just recently of age. But his mind was so strong that once he was born, he burnt out all of his mother's strength and because they were linked, much of Rosa's strength left her too. It has caused Rosa to appear a lot older than she is, speeding up the aging process."
"Then I shall link with Legolas. If we are to grow old and diminish we will grow old together. He will not allow me to do it alone or endanger another."
"Men are not allowed in the birthing chamber."
"Then he will stand outside the door and I will link with him. Mother nothing will stop me from having this child and I will live." Celebfaer said and her mother nodded, a smile forming on her face.
"You have a strong mind daughter. Your teachers always told me so. They said you would be able to accomplish many spells that had not been known since before we were exiled the first time. Mildred tells me that you killed a cave troll with command once and that you taught him healing when you were badly wounded."
"The mind and the body are separate to a certain degree mother. It is just a matter of realizing the potential your mind has and using that. Elves taught me that. They are not a race to be underestimated mother."
"Still I fear for you. How many months are you?"
"Almost two. Which is why we need to return to Eryn Lasgalen so quickly."
"I understand daughter. But before you leave I ask you one thing." Asura said and Celebfaer looked at her waiting to hear what she would say. "I ask only that you return to the realm within twenty years for I am tired and when you come back to claim the throne I shall leave the realm."
"I shall mother. Within twenty years I shall return, with Legolas or alone, but I shall return." Celebfaer said and her mother nodded
"Thank you daughter." The Queen said then she turned and walked from the room.
So before Celebfaer knew what was happening she, Legolas and Rosa were sitting on top of their horses, Rosa leading the pack horse and they were riding off towards the gateway, escorted by a group of the Queen's guard; Sabin at the head.
When they reached the gateway, Sabin pulled his horse up beside hers.
"I will miss your company. Yours also Legolas." Sabin said and Celebfaer nodded as Legolas clasped him on the shoulder.
"We will meet again Sabin." Legolas said and Sabin nodded.
"I hope that your journey is swift and safe. Farewell." Sabin said then he muttered the word to open the gateway before he turned his horse and started the trek back to the city.
So, they urged their horses forward glad to finally be on their way back to Eryn Lasgalen, the place Celebfaer considered to be home.