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Chapter 3 - We are best friends Nana!
Legolas giggled as his mother placed a circlet made from daisies upon his head. He thanked her, his musical laughter making the Queen smile with much love for her child. They both resumed their making of daisy chains, speaking to one another and also laughing as the hours went on.
They both had already done what was needed to be done: watering the flowers using two wooden buckets near a spring at the other end of the garden, tending to the trees and whistling to the birds that made those trees their home. Estelwen had told her son many stories of Thranduil and her sneaking down here and staying up, talking for hours on end about Valar knows what nowadays. She had laughed when Legolas asked what his father looked like when he was younger and she told him...
"He looks as he does now."
The sun had slowly begun to set below the mountains, creating a soft orange glow in the garden. The birds were returning home from their flights and the evening breeze blew gently throughout the grass and leaves.
Legolas yawned silently, turning away from his mother in hoping she didn't see. But by the look that she gave him as he turned back around made him smile innocently and say "I'm not tired Nana. I was just stretching my mouth."
Estelwen shook her head with a sigh and motioned Legolas to sit in her lap. "I know when a young one such as yourself is tired, Laegolas." *Greenleaf*
"How?" He questioned as he looked up at his mother, now playing with the sleeve of her dress as she placed her hands in his.
"You know that you are not the only young one to ever grace your father's halls. I do also remember when I was but a child and my dear mellyn were." *friends*
"You have friends?"
Estelwen snorted "Of course I have friends, Tinith-las. You and Tauriel are friends are you not?"
Legolas smiled as he nodded "We are best friends Nana!"
"That you are and that is why we trust you with her more than anyone in the Kingdom. She used to nurse you when you were just a tiny baby, when me and your father were incredibly busy."
"Tauriel is the best Nana and the best fighter! I want to be a fighter like her and come home to tell you tales of my adventures with Tauriel." Legolas swung his hands as if a small sword was within them.
Estelwen laughed as she dodged Legolas' fist as it came to close to her face "Aye, I do wish to hear those tales but when you are much older then may you do so." She tapped Legolas' nose gently making the Princeling giggle. "Never would I allow such a small Elfling to go out into the sick part of our forest to destroy creatures of the dark."
"But I am not small Nana, I am big." Legolas exclaimed, waving his arms still and now pretending to release an arrow with his bow "Like Ada!"
Estelwen shook her head "Las, you are too small. That is final, okay love?" Legolas nodded, his hands ceasing their swings as he mumbled something under his breath that made his mother's brow furrow. "Las?" She asked but received now answer. *Leaf*
After a short silence, the Prince looked up at his Queen and asked "Naneth, can you tell me about the other Elves?"
"Of course I can, dear one. What would you like to know?"
Legolas relaxed deeper into his mother lap, another small yawn escaping him "Everything."
And so the Queen did. She told her son about the hidden valley and about Lothlórien, explaining the beauty of each land with a hint of jealousy in her voice. Yes, she knew the trees around the palace were healthy along with that of the other plant life and animals but the rest of Mirkwood was sick and dead. Any other Elf would explain the other two realms with jealousy in their voices too. She was not the only one who did.
Estelwen began to tell her child about the Lord's and Lady's. Legolas seemed mostly interested when she began to talk about Lord Elrond's and Lady Celebrian's children, Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen. She told Legolas that Elladan and Elrohir were twins and were but a few hundred years older than him. He asked many questions about the twins, interested in whether he would become friends with them quickly or whether they would reject his friendship.
"They would not reject such a sweet, young Elfling like yourself, Tinith-las." Estelwen brushed her hand through her child's golden hair. "There is nothing to dislike about you." Legolas just shrugged his shoulder's as his reply so the Queen continued on telling her child about the realms. It was until her small Prince asked one question that made her freeze.
"Are their other races other then ours Nana?"
What was she to say? Thranduil and herself hadn't discussed this before. Was she to tell him that there were more than just that of Elves living on this earth besides from the dark creatures that he already knew about? Was she to tell him about the men in the south and north, east and west, in the plains and on the lake? Was she to tell him about the Dwarves of the great mountains, one's that held such hatred for their race? To tell him of their greed for all things great, money, gold, mithril, silver, iron? Was she to tell him about the five Wizards? Was she to tell him about the other dark creatures that were more terrifying than that of spiders and Orcs?
"Nana?"
"Nana?"
"Naneth!"
The Queen snapped out of her thoughts and looked down at her child. "Aye, forgive me Las." She said as she looked into his troubled, saddened eyes. "It appears I am very tired from all this talking. Come, I know you are tired too so let us go and rest underneath that big tree other there." She picked herself of the ground, Legolas already skipping over towards the tree with a smile on his face.
As they both settled beneath the tree, something caught Legolas' eyes. "Naneth, what's that?" He asked as he pointed towards a stone sticking out of the ground a few yards away from him. The top was covered in a thin sheet of moss while snow bells grew around the base.
The Queen mentally sighed in relieved, glad that her son was not to ask about the other races. "That is a stone for a very special person." She said. Legolas turned back to her with a furrowed brow and Estelwen giggled. "Have you ever wondered why your Ada never speaks of his Ada?" The Queen asked her son. When Legolas nodded, she pulled him into her lap and kissed the top of his head. "Well that is because he took a journey to Mando's halls..." A gasp from her little one's mouth "...and decided to stay there."
"But Nana!" Legolas exclaimed "He left Ada all alone. It's not very nice for him to just go without Ada."
"Nay, Las. He left because he had too. If he had an option, I would very much believe he would of stayed here by your father's side and still ruled over these woods of ours." She smiled sadly at her child and almost immediately, when Legolas saw the sadness within her eyes, he understood.
"I'm sorry." He said, lowering his head and leaning further into his mother as she wrapped her arms gently around his waist.
"Do not be sorry, little one. You still do not fully understand this world and that world above." Estelwen then inhaled deeply, breathing in the evening air and watching as the shadows of the orange glow of the sun soon turned red as it dimmed ever more. "If your Ada's father still ruled this realm, I am not sure he would have never laid eyes on me, meaning that you would never be in this world, Tinith-las and we wouldn't of wanted that. Now, sweet one, go to sleep. You have done so much today and it has made me very happy for you to have joined me."
"Yes Nana." Legolas turned around one last time before planting a soft kiss on her lips. "Goodnight." He said until he drifted off peacefully to the last songs of the birds and a gentle hum of his mother's voice.
Estelwen stayed awake, watching as the orange glow fading completely and only the full moons light entered the garden. She waited and waited until she felt it. The cool night air turned colder and began to pick up speed. The trees began to sing a sweet melody that they only sung once every two weeks when there was a full moon. She looked down at her sleeping child and smiled softly as all movement and sound stopped.
"So, is this the little Greenleaf you were telling me about?"
Estelwen turned her gaze onto that of an Elllon clad in pure white armour, his hair golden and swaying with the slight wind. Bright ice blue eyes landed on her sea blue one's and a gentle smile was on his face.
The Queen of Mirkwood nodded "Aye, this is Legolas."
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I feel pretty mean for leaving it there but all I can say is... HAHAHAHAAAA! ;) Hope you all have enjoyed this chapter and look forward to the next! Been too long since I last updated this and this has been sitting, waiting, to be updated for ages! ;O My apologies!
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