Chapter 16: More pain and jewels

Back in the fields of Imaldris...

Elrond's children (and Legolas) were playing tag with her new friends. Elladan was it, as usual, because he was the oldest. He was getting quite tired of the "eldest goes first" rule, but said nothing and agreed. Elladan immediately got tired of chasing Elrohir because he was too easy to catch, seeing as both twins ran the same speed, so he turned and ran after his little sister.

Arwen wasn't exactly thrilled with running around and getting sweaty, but ran after Elladan was a few feet away from her. "Daro ha! I'll tell Ada!" warned Arwen. "I told you I wasn't playing!" she drew in a breath to call their father.

Elladan quickly ran after Admir knowing even as a girl, she was a better sport than Arwen. He really didn't feel like letting Arwen get the satisfaction of getting him in trouble.

Suddenly Admir tripped over something and landed on the ground hard.

"Admir!" called Estel running over to his elder sister. "Are you hurt?" he looked where her feet were to see what she had tripped over when Admir stopped him by pulling his arm.

"It was just a rock, gwador, I'm fine," she forced a smile, knowing that Estel would believe her.

Estel quickly got up and ran away just in time to dodge Elrohir, who was now, it, thanks to Elladan.

"I call myself a timeout." stated Admir, and everyone nodded and began playing around her.

She sat up and moved her feet to reveal an emerald and black stone on a string. It was a necklace of some sort. The string was falling apart, and broken at the top, meaning that it had fallen off someone.

Those colors...it can't be...she thought. She knew only one person that liked those colors, and that was Rogir. But why would Rogir of all people have a necklace? Rogir wasn't like that, he was more of a loner and shadowy. He kept to himself a lot.

Suddenly Admir remembered when Aradwyn had said something about going after Rogir, after he had snuck out of bed, when Thranduil had told him not to.

And Aradwyn had been gone for over an hour now. Had something happened to him? Had something happened to Rogir?

She began to panic. If something had happened to Rogir, he was still weak, and wasn't exactly able to defend himself as well with one leg. She knew that Rogir was a lot better at unarmed combat rather than with a bow or sword, he was very quick and light on his feet, but if his leg was still injured then he didn't have much to defend himself with.

Should I go after him? She wondered. Is he safe with Aradwyn? After all, Aradwyn still has a headache; I could tell by the way his arm was twitching. You didn't want to put your hand to your head because that would look suspicious, and we would know you still had it, right, Aradwyn?

She stood up. None of the others had even noticed her just staring at the odd necklace, lost in thought. She decided she had better follow the Mirkwood Princes just in case.

She walked over to a tree, which she knew happened to be one of Rogir's favorite resting-places. Suddenly someone grabbed her from behind, being only half elf she couldn't hear as well as they could, especially when it was an elf that had snuck up on her.

"What have we here...?" asked a male voice.

"It's a half human! How disgraceful." replied a lower voice.

Admir turned her head and came face to face with a dark haired elf, Thelion.

"What are you doing?" She asked crossly trying to move, but Thelion held her tighter. "Let go of me!"

"You're not going anywhere half-blood!" Thelion growled.

Admir stared at him wide eyed, she wanted to scream, but she knew that it would only please the other elves.

Thelion dropped Admir to the ground and another elf grabbed her, twisting her right arm behind her back until she screamed in pain.

Another kicked her in the face hard, sending her flying. She didn't understand why was this happening to her, why were they doing this?

Too weak to get up, Admir lay on the ground.

Thelion smirked. "How pathetic, half humans should never have been meant to be. Treated like royalty, when you're really just a sad human!" he tangled his fingers in Admir's hair as he had done to Rogir and pulled her head back. "You're weaker than that Mirkwood Princeling. But then again, he's probably just as bad as you!" he pulled harder.

"P...pri...nce...?" she muttered weakly.

"Oh, you know him?" asked Thelion evilly. "I believe his name is Rogir."

Admir's eyes widened. "Rogir...!" she cried. "What have you done to him?" she demanded.

Thelion and the others laughed. "A half-blood is trying to defend a Mirkwood Prince? That's priceless. You should have seen the "wittle pwince" cry!" Thelion laughed harder and pulled her hair even harder, possibly close to pulling it out her scalp.

Valar...spare me...but if it must be between me and Rogir...spare him... she thought before she blacked out, dropping the emerald necklace from her now open hand where Thelion and his friends could now see it.

Now, do u STILL think that Admir only thinks of herself?

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