A/N-guess whose back! Back again. Haldir's back. Tell some men. Lol .on to the story
Chapter five-
Haldir's Point of View (again)
As soon as we arrived I handed Brian over to the Lady of the Light. They took him to a place of healing and my brothers and I were left their holding the sleeping girl. They can't expect us to watch her. Are hey NUTS! We have no experience with children whatsoever. WE don't even have the necessary equipment to care for it! (LOL! Necessaryequipment. I can so see him saying something like that)
I looked over at my brother's faces. By their identical looks of confusion I could tell they were wondering the same thing. With a shrug I turned and led the way to the cabin we shared.
"Uh, Haldir. What are we going to do with the child?"
I turned to look at my brothers in surprise. " Take care of her until the Lady tells us other wise. What else would we do? Eat her?"
Rumil rolled his eyes at me. " Its always such a pleasure talking to you brother dear. You say the nicest things."
My eyebrow rose at that. "Thank you. I try." With that I walked into our kitchen and started to prepare dinner for us well Rumil laid Anna down in his bed for a nap. Orophin went off to change and clean his weapons. The dinner was a simple stew, but I wasn't in the mood for anything big. When it was done I began to pour some into three bowls. Remembering Anna I hastily got another spare down for her and told Rumil to go wake her up.
Rumil returned with the sleepy girl rubbing her eyes and yawning. Stopping she looked up at me and smiled. "Hi Haldir." " Hello, did you have a nice nap?" "Yep. Thank you."
They all were seated
and soon they had finished the meal. Rumil gathered the dishes and
went into the kitchen to wash them. Haldir and Orophin by now were
tired and wanted to prepare for bed, but Anna had a nice little nap
and was now full of energy. In fact she was jumping on the bed.
Haldir's bed. I gritted my teeth as I struggled to remain clam and
think of a way to get this child to bed.
"Child, I..."
"My names Anna and
I'm NOT a child."
"Right of course not. Anna then, what do
I have to do to make you go to bed."
" Read me a story."
I thought about the few books we had in our talon (is that what their called?) and decide that a book about weapons just wouldn't cut it.
"I'm sorry we don't
have any stories that you would enjoy."
"Then make one up."
I
blinked. Once. Twice.
"Ummm I will attempt to make one up as you say. What would you like it to be about?"
" Dragons and
Princess. Nice dragons not the evil kind."
With a nod I lunched
into a story that even I didn't know how it was going to end. I was
just at the part where the princess escaped from her evil stepmother
to live with the dragons when I noticed Anna had already fallen
asleep. I went into my closet (a walk in one) and changed into my
night clothing. When I came out I realized she was sleeping in my
bed. Oh well its just one night. With that I nudged her over
to make room before joining her in bed. (Don't think dirty you sick
people! It's CLEAN!)
