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Blood Cures Blood
"Who dares to enter Mirkwood?"
The young elf could feel the archers bows trained upon him. He wood have to answer to keep his life.
"Nanye Silva, it is tree."
Groans rolled through the surrounding elves.
"Not another tree speaker."
"How much sindarin do you think he speaks?"
"Do you speak much elvish?"
"Some"
"Where is Laerphen?"
"Over here captain."
"You speak to him in case he speaks tree again."
"Where do you hail from?"
"I have no home."
"Why do you come here?"
"I heard of a city of elves close by. Would you be from this city?"
Laerphen looked to his captain to check what information he could give.
"We are. Why do you have no home, were you banished?"
"U, I have always lived alone."
"You have no one to answer to?"
"U"
"Then we shall take you with us."
Silva stood in the throne room of king Thranduil. Clad in a small amount of armour he had found on his travels Silva felt strong enough to defend himself should he need to. He had heard not of this king and knew little of these elves.
"You are a wanderer then. A travellor who has no destination."
"Yes my Lord."
The king thought carefully of this proposal.
"I mean no harm to your people."
Finally Thranduil decided to let the boy stay among them. Perhaps he could join their patrols if he was honest of his word.
Eryniell sat still waiting. Soon her evening meal would arrive. There, a knock at the door. After no answer the servant entered anyway.
"There is a stranger in our midst."
The servant jumped at the sound of a quiet voice. "I wish to see him."
The servant bowed out of the room swiftly running to tell Amdirthorn the good news. Afterwoods he ran to the new guest to tell him the Lady Eryniell wished to see him.
Curious as to why this unknown character could possibly want to see him Silva followed the servant to Eryniells rooms. He entered finding what seemed to be an anaemic teenage human girl shrouded in darkness with a look of despair upon her face. A silence filled the room. Eryniell decided to speak tree to the person beside her.
"I felt you in the forest. I felt your lightness against the pain of the trees."
Silva did not answer but studied her aura instead.
"You have a different name to Silva."
"Mithrilchon." He said aloud.
"True brother... Nanye Eryniell. They named me Daughter of the Wood because that is where I was found. I too have another name, it is Little Tree. I do not know how long I lived among the trees. The wood elves found me, I ran to father tree he told me to follow them. Perhaps it is because of the darkness he told me to leave. Yet I am not safe even here."
"I sense your longing to be among them again."
"I could no longer be among them now. They are in a living death. I join them in their suffering."
"You look awful, I admit that. How did you come to be this way?"
"I am as the trees are. They are enveloped in a darkness not even an elf can cure. I have been among them so long I am subject to it. As the forest weakens so do I. But as they will not, I will not die. It is an immortal death. The leaves turn black searching for light; searching for the joy they once had. I felt it in mother tree when she called to me that night. So long ago now... Some trees are stronger than others. I feel them all asking for help but all I can do is fall. Fall into darkness. I do not fear death, I would welcome it should it appear."
"Perhaps I could be of some help sister."
"Why do you call me sister, we have just met."
"You are my sister Little Tree. Do you not remember? We are twins. We were separated when we were young. I was sent away because people could tell I was a half blood. Because of my ears, you see." Silva showed his ears to Little Tree. " I was not welcome among the humans of our village. I do not know how you came to be here sister but it is good to see you once again. Even if it is under terrible circumstances."
"Where did you go? When you were sent away I mean."
"I wandered for a long time. I was found near Lothlorien. They took care of me until I ran away. Now I come to be here. You are right about these woods. They need help but so do you. How are we supposed to attack the darkness with you like this eh? Come to me sister. Let me comfort you."
Eryniell fell into Mithrilchons arms finally letting her tears fall. They sat there for hours embracing, never needing a spoken word."
The next day everyone was surprised to see Eryniell out in the gardens with Mithrilchon. They talked silently of their adventures. Legolas came towards them a little disappointed he was not the one to have succeeded in getting her outside.
"You have met the Lady Eryniell."
"Met and known for a long time."
A puzzled look quickly passed over the Princes delicate features.
"He is my brother Legolas. My lost brother."
"I didn't know you had a brother."
"Neither did I."
"If you are concerned with my honesty you need not be. We are twins, separated early in our childhood. If you need proof I am willing to be tested."
"Sceptical as Legolas was he decided against the proposal as it would embarrass the Lady Eryniell.
"You can't be, she looks so much younger than you. How would you know anyway."
"There is more than one person here who can speak to trees."
This was met with one slightly embarrassed look.
"Well if you are twins you know how old she is then?"
Mithrilchon turned to Eryniell.
"You don't know how old you are?"
"U. I only know I was very young when I went to the trees."
"But you know, do you not?" Questioned the prince.
"28" There was no hesitation.
Legolas looked at Eryniell in disbelief.
"But she's been here nearly twelve years."
"Then she must have been really quite young when she entered the forest. They have put quite a spell on her, even I can tell that."
Legolas took them to the healers exclaiming what he had just heard down their ear holes. They could not possibly believe Eryniell was sixteen when they took her into their care. So they asked them very nicely if they could do some tests on the twins anyway. More tests than the original one. Mithrilchon was far to protective and it took hours for Eryniell to calm him down. He was helping her out already, just by being by her side. Even if it was a bit violent.