A low horn resounded throughout the Kingdom, it almost sounded like a haunted wind blowing through skeleton trees. Almost instantly, one by one, lights that weren't on in other trees lit up. Shadows were being cast around like ghosts waking up for midnight screams. Adonnenniel could hear the panic in nearby mother's voices as they instructed their elflings to pack up a few belongings.

"It's happening, isn't it? The Ra'zacs is here" Adonnenniel stated.

Legolas didn't answer his bride as, he too, ran around their expanded room. He was trying to put on his armor in the hastiest way possible while trying to pack a few things for Adonnenniel. Legolas had always been so wrapped up in the battles that he never really knew what women packed whenever they went underground. Panic seized him as he realized that Adonnenniel was watching all the commotion that was happening down below.

"Come away from there!" Legolas yelled out.

Adonnenniel watched as men were instructing the women and children down on ground level where to go. The hooded cloaks around them seemed to make everyone look as grim as reapers as everyone rushed in one direction. Legolas hastily wrapped an arm around her waist and led her back inside and away from the balcony. He grabbed a cloak for her and thrust it over her shoulders before fastening it and placing the hood over her head.

"Where is the underground?" Adonnenniel asked.

"We have our own entrance in the castle" Legolas replied back.

"Is everyone going to get inside okay?" Adonnenniel asked.

"There are many secret entrances that the Sindar Elves know about to get to the underground" Legolas said quickly.

"What if the Ra'zacs find an entrance?" Adonnenniel asked.

"I will never allow that to happen" Legolas said firmly. "When you go down to the underground, you are to find Erulassë or your counsel and stay with them. Do you understand me?"

"I understand" Adonnenniel whispered.

Legolas lifted her chin up with his finger to make her look straight into his eyes, "I will return"

"You better keep that promise" Adonnenniel said to him.

"Do not let Hûredhiel under your skin" Legolas warned. "I mean it! This time is crucial on where my people will look up to you as a potential queen"

"I will try not to" Adonnenniel obeyed. "I just hope that this will ease her grudge over me just a little bit"

Legolas nodded, "I hope so too"

"I have something for you" Adonnenniel quickly went over to her wardrobe and searched through her clothes. "I know it's in here"

"We should take you down to safety" Legolas looked out of the open window.

"I saved this one for you" Adonnenniel turned around and held out a vial of water.

"I already stored a few" Legolas said, not knowing whether he should take it or not.

"But this is the biggest vial they found" Adonnenniel forced it into his hands. "I want you to have it. Use it when all of the others are wasted"

"Alright" Legolas nodded as he looked down to the vial. "I wish there was more time to prepare. Unfortunately, we've already wasted enough time. Right now we need to get you to safety"

Legolas wrapped his arm over her shoulder and rushed her out of the room. A big difference seemed to have happened in the halls as she noticed that nearly all of the lights were out. Legolas seemed to know his way around the castle as he led her down a different pathway once they reached the bottom floor. When she was sure that Legolas had lost his way in his own home, he came into a study room and lifted up a corner of the stone floor that Adonnenniel never thought to be a trapped door.

"Wait! Is this good bye?"

"No" Legolas shook his head. "Not for us"

"I will pray for you" Adonnenniel placed her hand on his shoulder. "I will not stop until I see your face again. Legolas, I…"

"Don't say it when you are forced to" Legolas placed his fingertips on her lips. "Say it when you actually mean it"

Before Adonnenniel could protest, Legolas grabbed her and gently brought her down the trap door until she grabbed onto a thick root to hold on to. Legolas stared at her for a moment before hearing in the distance the sound of another horn and closed the trap door. Adonnenniel sighed and looked around the vast underground; the light filled every corner as women and children crowded around the tall space. The safety almost represented the Kingdom itself as the roots were almost as big as the trees, making a forest of their own in the underground.

"What are you still doing up there?" a familiar voice yelled out. "Get down at once! The Ra'zac could open that trap door, you know?"

"Is everyone inside?" Adonnenniel asked Hûredhiel. "What about the sisters?"

"The doors just closed and are locked shut. The sisters are in here, I saw them somewhere" Hûredhiel then stopped. "What are you planning on having us do? Just sit and wait?"

"Hûredhiel?" Adonnenniel asked. "What is wrong with you? Why are you so cruel? We are in the underground and something about my people being here has made you bitter"

"And who says that?"

"Everyone. And you will answer my question"

Hûredhiel folded her arms over her chest, "Why would I do that?"

"Unless you want to keep your job, then don't answer at all"

"What? Are you serious?"

Adonnenniel gave Hûredhiel a smirk and raised an eyebrow as if to try her. Adonnenniel didn't know if what she was doing was yet legal in her line of duty. It must've been because Hûredhiel's façade seemed to have faded away into a new adviser that she has never seen before. Hûredhiel didn't look so together, accomplishing, and guarded as she always seems to be, she actually looked alone, fallen, and vulnerable.

"I was in love with a Teleri" Hûredhiel suddenly said. "We have been together for nearly 1,103 years"

"Then what happened?"

"What do you think happened?"

Adonnenniel then noticed the big piece that she was missing and slowly nodded, "He chose the Sea over you"

"After everything that we have been through" Hûredhiel said mostly to herself then to Adonnenniel.

"So why take it out on my race?"

"You people have the option to love the Sea or not and yet he chose it after swearing to stay by my side"

"We all hear the calling of the Sea. Maybe did you think that it was his time to go?"

Hûredhiel's glare subsided for a moment before she stubbornly looked away. Adonnenniel waited as she noticed that the heart broken elf showed its way back onto her face.

"He should've told me"

"Maybe he thought that this would happen"

"That I would become bitter"

"He didn't want to kill you, Hûredhiel" Adonnenniel said. "He knew that this would bring you great despair to choose him or the work that you love"

"He always knew I loved my job as an adviser. I just never thought that he would think for a second that I would be torn between him and my home here. Why would a man ever think that, Adonnenniel?" Hûredhiel looked to Adonnenniel but all the Teleri Princess did was turn around and leave Hûredhiel alone to her thoughts.

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