A/n: Thanks goes out to all of you that reviewed. I hope you enjoy this chapter. And this chapter will go back a little ways to when they are still traveling but from a different point of view. This is a short chapter. I know but if I wrote more then it just be switching from person to person.

Chapter four

Anna's Point of View


I relay wanted to get off the big horse. We have been riding for hours! Plus I'm hungry. I was just about to ask again how far it was to the city when Haldir announced he could see the city. Excited I looked forward to catch a glimpse of it, but all I could see were trees. Puzzled I looked up at Rumil. He smiled at me and explained, "The city is in the trees. You can not see it yet, but we are very close."

Anna-"Why can you see it if I can't?"

Rumil- "Our eyes can see a greater distance then mortals eyes."

Anna-" What's a mortal?"

Rumil-"You don't know? Oh, well its someone who wont live forever."
Anna-"You mean someone who dies?"

Rumil-"yes."
Anna-" My dad died."
Rumil-"I thought Brian was your father?"

Anna-" I mean my other one."

Rumil-" Oh so your father is a homosexual?"

Anna-"I don't know what a home whatever you said is, but my dad likes men. They adopted me. They said that made me special cuz they picked me out"

Rumil-" Anna, don't get upset, but how did your other father die?"

I could feel my eyes start to water, but it wasn't his fault. He was just wanted to know.

Anna-"The bad people shot him."

Switch to Rumils Point of View

A wave of pity washed over me as I watched this little girl struggle not to cry. I began to feel a sense of friendship developing with this young girl. I soon found myself telling her of my own parent's deaths. How they were killed by orcs. (I don't know if that's what really happened so don't take it as fact.) Through out the story she sat still listening and at the end she turned (as much as one can in a saddle) and hugged me.

"I'm sorry about your parents."

"Its not your fault. Don't worry about me."
"Rumil. Will you be my friend?"
"Of course I will. I wouldn't trade a friendship with you for anything in the world." She smiled up at me and then leaned against my chest and then promptly fell asleep.