We had been travelling for days, only stopping for a few hours to eat and rest.
"How far away are we from rivendell?" asked embo,
"I'm not sure but I don't think its to far, maybe another days walk perhaps" I replied, embo sighed heavily and I didn't blame her I was exhausted as well. We may travel a lot but we're used to travelling at our own pace and being able to stop and rest whenever we want, which we can't do since we have to get to rivendell as quickly as possible.
"Do not worry embo.." I started to say but then I heard a rustling in the trees, "get your weapon ready",
we both drew our weapons preparing for what ever was in the woods with us, I heard another rustle and threw one of my daggers into the tree it came from,
"hey that almost hit me Zola, is that anyway to greet an old friend?" a voice said and straight away I knew who it was,
"Well maybe if you wasn't hiding in trees and following me and embo like some creep I wouldn't have had to shoot at you legolas" I replied laughing.
legolas sprang down from the tree and smiled at us, as soon as his feet were on the ground embo ran and hugged him,
"legolas!, it's been so long since we last saw you, how are you?" asked embo smiling up at him,
he smiled down back at her (he had always had a soft spot for the little hobbit) and said, "I'm very well thank you and how are you my little friend?"
"I'm good thanks, just tired and hungry, me and Zola have been travelling for ages to get to rivendell and she won't let me have second breakfast" replied embo pretending to sulk,
"haha you always find a way to make me laugh embo" he said "wait your going to rivendell as well?".
We then found out that legolas had been sent to Rivendell by his dad king thranduil for the same reason as me and embo, we then decided that we might as well travel the rest of the together since it made no sense splitting up when we were going to the same place after all. This cheered embo up because she loved spending time with legolas talking about mirkwood forest and the creatures that dwelt there.
We all arrived at rivendell together and when we walked up to the gates lord elrond was stood there waiting to greet us,
"welcome to rivendell friends it's nice to see you all again, especially you Zola it has been too long" he said,
"sorry it's just I forget to visit when I'm travelling all the time lord elrond" I replied,
"there is still no excuse not to visit your family or even to write a letter to say that you are okay" he said sternly,
I looked down at the floor and mumbled "sorry father".
After that he told us to go to our rooms and rest because it was late, which we did straight after embo had begged my father to let her go to the kitchens and have some food because she was starving. Me and Embo washed and got into our night clothes and wished each other a good night before going into our adjoining rooms for a well needed sleep.