Wayward
"Are you lost?" a friendly yet quiet voice asked suddenly, breaking the long silence of the forest and making Mithrellas jump, surprised.
It was rare for anyone to be able to sneak up on her.
"Who are you?" she asked levelly, appearing calm although her skin prickled with fear and apprehension.
"I am called Nellas." the voice replied, and a small limber elleth accompanied it, dropping down from the branches above, smiling as she landed.
Her skin was a smooth, light-brown in color, and her dark brown hair hung loose about her shoulders.
"I-I am Mithrellas."
"Are you lost? I was lost once, for a long time, actually. I was lost on the inside and the outside. Now people still say I am lost, but though on the outside my wandering feet may make it seem that way, my heart and mind have found a direction to walk in. You, however, still seem lost, in both ways."
"How would you know?" Mithrellas asked defensively, wrapping her now-tattered shawl tightly around herself against the strange elleth.
"I have been watching you now for three days, and you seem lost indeed, and by the looks of it, you have recently had a baby. You look so tired, come, I know a good place for rest, and for stargazing." Nellas smiled invitingly, extending a hand to the slowly warming elleth before her.
"I like stargazing, and it is rather lonely to be all alone all the time." she decided slowly, hesitantly taking the hand Nellas offered with her own.
"Thank goodness! Watching you, I was starting to get worried. Now, can you climb trees?" she asked, leading her to the base of one.
"Of course!"
"Then follow me, up to the stars."
Yep, these two elleth were created by Tolkien. They are not, in fact, OCs. XD
Nellas-A reclusive but friendly elleth of Doriath, she lived in the woods around the city, never venturing inside. Few elves even knew she existed, but she was friends with Queen Melian, Beleg, and Turin. Melian asked her to keep watch over little Turin as he played in the woods, and she did for some time without him knowing it, although she would come down from her trees and converse with him, and they became good friends(that's how she got to know Beleg). Later at the trial for the Turin and Saeros matter, she testified for Turin, and won him pardon, as she was the only observer of the entire affair. Her end and whereabouts are now unknown, and it is plausible that she still wanders the woods somewhere, watching over the forest and those within it.
Mithrellas-A member of Nimrodel's company, she was lost in the mountains along with her lady, but found her way out. She was later taken in by a Numenorian called Imrazor, who she eventually married and bore two children, before disappearing one night, never to be seen by her family again.
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