Chapter two

Anna's point of view

Anna opened her eyes as the sunlight hit her face, waking her from her peaceful dreams. Anna sat up and looked around in confusion. She was in the middle of the forest. Looking at her father she saw he was sweating and shaking in his sleep. Where am I? How did we get here? Scared she tried to wake her father.
"Daddy, wake up Daddy. Daddy its time to get up." When he didn't respond her attempts became more desperate. "Daddy! You're scaring me daddy! Stop it! Stop playing!" Tears were streaming down her face now. Standing up she yelled for help.

"Help me! My Daddy's hurt! Somebody! Anybody!" She stopped as her voice echoed through the woods. Too tired to yell any more she turned to shaking her dad's arm.

"What's wrong? Are you in need of assistance?" The silkily voice startled her and she screamed. Turning around she saw a group of blond men with bows and arrows staring at her.

Pointing to her father laying on the ground she explained, "I can't wake my daddy up! And I'm scared and wait…I'm not supposed to talk to strangers." The strange man smiled at her.

"In that case I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Haldir. The two elves over there are my brothers Orophin and Rumil. What's your name?"

"My name is Anna."

"Anna? That's a nice name. Now I am going to look at your father to see if I can help him." The elf kneeled next to the man and placing one finger above the eye and one below, he looked into her father's pupils. Haldir placed a hand on his forehead.

" Your father has a very high fever. We will need to get him to the city." At this the other elves looked at him. "Don't worry the Lady already had given me permission."

Anna looked around in confusion. Lady? I don't see any Lady. This guy is weird. See people who aren't even here and he thinks he is an elf! Anna watched as the elf held her father's head up to offer him a drink. Her father chocked and spit it out. Sighing the elf looked over at Anna.

"Anna do you know your daddy's real name? The one other people call him."
"Yeah, they call him Brian."