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Chapter 3 – Goodbye Henry

Fin's POV

I woke up the next morning in the middle of the forest, near running water. I sat up but I was unable to see anything - everything was blurry! I reached up to my face to check if I was wearing my glasses (I was as I had forgotten to remove them last night) before taking them off to clean them. Suddenly, I could see everything in perfect clarity. It was amazing - for so long my glasses had ruled my life but now I didn't need them to see! It was bliss…

A figure stirred beside me and the caramel hair of Persephone (aka Seph) came into view. I chuckled at the messy blob on her head and she glared at me, pulling a hairbrush out of her bag and applying dry shampoo. Kels was still lying on the ground staring at the sky while Sherlock Holmes was inspecting every rock in the glade.

"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!" stated Kels as she began to skip round the most perfect place I have ever seen. The trees were tall with emerald green leaves and the grass seemed to be clipped to exactly the right length. A small brook meandered through the middle of the glade and tiny fish could be seen beneath its glassy surface.

"Hey Fin! Where are your glasses?" shouted Kels.
"I don't need them," I explained, "I can see fine!"
"How?"
I shrugged my shoulders and watched as Seph tied her hair back, revealing a pair of rather pointed ears.
"Oh Eru this can't be happening!" I cried. They all turned to look at me with interest in their eyes. "WE ARE ELVES!" Everyone immediately checked their ears and they all found the same result.

"That would explain your sudden ability to see," mused Di who was looking at her reflection intently, "but that is not logically possible since we have a certain molecular structure which would not change under normal circumstances."
"But these aren't flipping normal circumstances!" yelled Kels. "We are in some damned forest far away from home and we were dropped here by some crazy Doctor Who tunnel in the TV!"
"How we got here is simple," started Di. "It is a distortion of space-time in the form of a temporal tunnel which opened because…"

"English please?" I asked, rather confused.
"A wormhole."
"Ok Sherlock, it's Watson's turn to do some deduction," said Persephone, stepping forward. "We have travelled through a wormhole to a parallel universe and we are now in a forest. This forest, if I am correct, is the one that does surround Rivendell, as that is the image the TV showed before the wormhole opened. It was like a preview."
This made complete sense and I knew we all felt the same.

"I need a tall tree!" she declared before searching around. As all of us were still in a stunned stupor, Seph found a tree herself and began to climb up its strong limbs. After she was high enough she took her compass from her bag and began to look around.
"Edge of the forest is that way - west," she said pointing behind us. "So we want to head this way!" she said, turning around.
"But don't we want to leave the forest?" inquired Kels.
"No - we want to get to Rivendell!"

So we set off into the trees, after Seph had filled up the flask in her bag with water. As we were strolling along, Di decided to voice some of her previously hidden thoughts.
"From what all of you have told me of this 'War of the Ring' and its effects on Middle Earth, I can deduce that, by the state of the land, the war has either not yet arrived in this place or it has long since passed." We all began to worry. What if the help we were searching for was no longer there?

"However," continued Di, "As you have already told me that most elves left for the Grey Havens after the war, I can safely say that we are currently in a time before the war, as this forest is quite obviously tended to by elves. I would say it's about 5 years prior to the events in the first book of your beloved series. Give or take a month or two."

We all silently praised the Valar (except Kels, who screamed her thanks at the top of her lungs) and continued on our journey. I began to wonder if Arwen was real and soon had devised a range of different ways to kill her and make her suffer. I would enjoy torturing her.
I smiled evilly and the others just rolled their eyes at me. They knew what I was thinking about. Soon Kels joined me and we began to have an animated discussion on what would hurt the 'noble maiden' the most. As we did not want any passing elves (if there were any) to understand, we began to refer to Arwen 'Ser-hurtyn', which was 'Idiot-star' in Welsh, rather than 'Evenstar'. We stopped for lunch after a little while and Seph started up the conversation on who we wanted to meet. To be honest I was feeling really homesick and I didn't feel like seeing anyone. Perhaps tomorrow I would tell Seph of my desire to return to Cardiff. I had a strange feeling that she wasn't going to like it.

My thoughts were interrupted by a rather loud voice singing in Greek, and I groaned inwardly. Seph was the best singer in the group but when she decided to sing rude songs she had learnt in Greece the situation could turn embarrassing rather quickly.

I looked at Di who just rolled her eyes. Di had wavy, shoulder length ebony hair that perfectly framed her narrow white face and golden brown eyes. We were all average looking but becoming an elf does wonders on your complexion. Your skin becomes smoother than a piece of polished marble and all of your facial features seem to change to compliment you.

"Thank Eru," I thought to myself. "All that acne, gone forever!"

I looked over at the other two. Kelly's waist length chocolate hair was plaited and her 'muddy brown' eyes laughed with a never ending happiness. Seph threw back her head and began to laugh. She was your typical picture of a Greek nymph. Caramel hair, stormy blue eyes that were always sparkling with mischief and a heart shaped face. I had always been jealous of her tan. My skin just burned. I had shoulder length silvery blond hair with a fiery red highlight at the front. My eyes were a mix of brown and green which is not the sort of colour that attracts attention. Not that I cared. I rolled my eyes again when Seph started a new song.

The rest of the day passed by quickly and we soon found that the sun was setting. We made camp and munched on some knick-knacks from Seph's bag. Just before settling down for the night, I called everyone to the fireside and made a speech:
"Friends and family," I began. We all chuckled at my use of the word 'family'. It was true enough. We were all close enough to be sisters and I would no doubt introduce ourselves to others in this way.

"We are gathered here to say a final prayer to my beloved and loyal glasses." Seph and Kels burst into fits of uncontrollable laughter and Di allowed herself a smile and a huff of amusement.
"They have been with us so long and despite everything I am rather upset to let them go," I exclaimed, wiping mock tears from my face. "Could everyone please come up and say their final goodbyes?" Di was first.
"Oh, glasses -" began Di.
"They are called Henry," whispered an amused Kels.
"Oh Henry - though you have made the life of my friend miserable and been a constant reminder of her coming blindness, I shall miss you dearly. You were part of our daily lives. I bid you adieu." Kels was up next.

"Henry, my dear Henry. I know that there was a hole in your bucket," Kels paused as Seph and I burst into dramatic laughter. "You were so amazing. A constant source of amusement and a great subject for teasing. Yes Seph, I hear you snickering too! I will miss you dearly old friend and I hope the Valar judge you well in the halls of Mandos." Now for Seph - what we had all been waiting for. She emerged with a poem:

"Never have glasses meant so much to me,
You helped my dear friend Fin to see,
The world with you was always bright,
Helping Fin to see in dark and light,
But now it comes to the end of your day,
There is only one thing left to say,
You have been a burden far too long,
So as I come to the end of my song,
Heed this warning little friend,
Your time with us has come to an end..."

We all leant forward waiting for the signal.
"Kill them!" she yelled the war cry and we all pounced on the unfortunate pair of glasses (which had been christened Henry less than two minutes ago) and began to destroy every piece. They were thrown up against trees, stood on, danced on and after we had had our fun we sat down and watched as Seph ceremoniously re-collected all the pieces and stood above the fire with the remains in her hands.

"By the power of Zeus and the gods of Olympus," she exclaimed doing her 'I'm a Greek, look at me' routine. "I cast you Henry back to the fires of the Titans from whence you came!" She later admitted that a lot of inspiration came from Elrond's speech.
"I destroy your final remains and may you be lost to us forever!" She threw the remnants of my old glasses into the fire and I watched, satisfied, as the remains burned and melted. I had had my revenge.

After these strange antics I agreed to take first watch that night. Nothing happened; I only saw a few foxes and deer. I spent my time listening to the sounds of the forest which would have been inaudible had I not had elvish ears, until Di finally came to relieve me of my duty. I have never slept so well.

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