I Am Still Here
Eleniel: 18
Eleniel looked around her, eyes wide as she took in the dead bodies of both elves and orcs.
She turned her eyes to her sword, clenched tightly in her hand. The end of it was covered with thick, black blood.
"Eleniel!"
The elleth turned at her name, catching sight of Elladan kneeling on the ground.
She ran over to him, stopping abruptly when she saw who it was he was sat next to.
"Fin," she breathed out, dropping to her knees and placing her hand on the elf's wrist.
"He's alive, Eleniel, do not worry," the older twin told her, taking his sister's hand in his. He looked into her troubled eyes. "Feredir and I are going to ride back home as fast as possible to get the supplies we need. If we can, we will bring Ada back with us, so he can tend to the injured quicker. I'd like you to stay with Glorfindel, alright? Out of everyone here, he is one of the most hurt, and he will want you to stay by his side. Elrohir will be right over there, helping to make the wounded comfortable, okay? If anything happens, you call him immediately, understand?"
Eleniel nodded distractedly, watching as Elladan leant forward to give her a quick kiss on her cheek before standing too his feet and galloping off with Feredir.
"El?"
She quickly looked down as she heard a raspy voice, a huge smile coming to rest on her face as Glorfindel's ice blue eyes opened and stared around confusedly. "What happened?"
He tried to sit up, but quickly fell back again as a wave of dizziness overwhelmed him. He groaned and shut his eyes, hand flying up to his forehead.
"Stay still, Fin. You are badly injured. We were caught in an attack, do you remember? Orcs jumped out at us unexpectedly."
Glorfindel sighed. "So that is that awful smell."
Despite the pain the balrog-slayer was so obviously in, he still had his sense of humour.
"Eleniel?"
Eleniel took in a shaky breath, squeezing the balrog-slayer's hand. "I am still here."
"Good."
Silence.
"Your brothers… are they okay?" came his quiet voice, eyes still tightly closed.
The elleth nodded. "They are fine. Ro is over there, and Dan has gone home with Feredir to fetch Ada and the supplies they will need."
"And you?" At this, the warrior opened his eyes slightly, looking straight at Eleniel. "Are you okay?"
"I am fine, I promise."
Glorfindel smiled faintly, eyes closing again. "Good… couldn't f'give… myself… if s'm'thing… h… happened…"
And darkness overcame him.