After telling Gandalf about your big secret, you trudged along with the rest of the fellowship, but Gandalf kept you nearby. While he occasionally asked you questions, it seemed that he was mostly just trying to keep a close eye on you. It was perhaps extremely worrying to him to have a possible former traitor be walking along with the fellowship on one of Middle Earth's most important missions.
Each day the fellowship carried on the weather got colder and colder in spite of the coming spring. But that was how it was in the cruel mountains called the Caradhras. Like Legolas, you had no issues getting through the snow. It seemed that while your memories had been stripped from you, you had gained the gifts of the elves. If you were Moraina, you weren't as bound to the flaws of your body as what Gandalf, who found himself struggling through the snow with the non-elven members of the fellowship, appeared to be.
You spoke with Legolas often. He assured you that you were not evil, no matter what you had been before.
As the fellowship trekked on, the Caradhras became more and more impassable. Gandalf decided that a decision must be made, either the fellowship turn back and try to find a different way or they must go through Moria. The decision was Frodo's to make. You noticed the fear in Gandalf's voice as he spoke of the unknown dangers that Moria may hold. In the end, Frodo decided that going through the old dwarven kingdom was the best way to go.
After this decision, Gandalf quit asking you the occasional questions about yourself. Either you had been pushed out of his mind by the impending dangers of the unknown or perhaps he was considering sacrificing you to whatever lay ahead. Either way, Moria meant nothing to you, so you just followed along and didn't concern yourself with what dangers there may be.
"Legolas, what lies in Moria?" you ask the elf on the journey down the mountain.
"I don't think any living being knows for certain. It is said that the dwarves delved too deep in those mountains and awoke a great firey beast that was sleeping deep below the earth," he replied with a bit of a frown.
"A fiery beast? You don't mean..." you trail off. Deep in your mind you see an image of an embodied fire spirit, living in deep and ever burning pits. It's wings vast. It carries a great whip of fire. "A balrog?"
"I know not. I have never seen one and I have seldom heard them mentioned." Legolas eyes you keenly, "Have you seen one?"
"I feel that I have. If a balrog does reside in Moria, then I understand Gandalf's fear. They are not a being to be reckoned with."
Finally, the party comes within sight of the sheer cliff face that is the entrance to Moria.
"But where is the door?" Pippen asks no one in particular.
"Dwarf doors are invisible when closed," Gandalf answers the hobbit. "Even their own masters cannot find them if their secrets are forgotten."
"Why doesn't that surprise me," Legolas mutters, just loud enough for you and Gimli to hear.
At this point, Gandalf starts looking for the door and you notice that he takes Frodo aside with him. You become curious about what they are doing and pretend to look for signs of a door, positioning yourself at a point where you could hear their conversation.
Gandalf is urgently whispering to the hobbit, "...you must be careful now. Evil will be drawn to you from outside the Fellowship. And, I fear, from within."
"Who do I trust?"
"Trust yourself and your own strengths."
"But what do you mean Gandalf?"
"There are a great many powers in this world. Some are good, some are evil. Some are greater than I. And against some I have not yet been tested..."
The two move out of earshot, but you are no longer listening to their conversation.
'Could Gandalf have been warning Frodo against me?'
You wandered off a short way to be alone with your thoughts. You sat with your back against a particularly flat section of rock and gazed off over the pond adjacent to it. You longed for your memories back so you would know with certainty if you are good or evil. You felt sad, hurt, and a little betrayed. You thought about the fact that it appears that Gandalf does not trust you. You angrily wondered why he let you continue with the Fellowship if he thinks you to be a spy of the enemy.
In your moment of anger, you picked up a rock and chucked it into the pond. You watched it bubble ominously before a mind-splitting pain consumed you. You moaned in pain as you began to slip into the increasingly familiar realm of your visions.
"Yes, Moraina, surrender to your anger. Even the wizard knows who you are yet will not tell you. He is keeping secrets from you," you hear Sauron in his seductive voice.
"No..." you moan feebly, refusing to let the vision take you. You did not want this, not now.
"Submit to me and I will tell you what he will not."
"No... no..." you continue to repeat the word. You feel someone grab you by the shoulders but you refuse to open your eyes. You did not want to look into Sauron's handsome face again. "No!" you say more firmly as you feel someone place their hand under your chin. You try to push them back.
"Ouch! Aiweneth!"
You open your eyes to see the fellowship standing around you and Legolas looking slightly affronted. Evidentially, it was he who had grabbed you and tried to rouse you from your vision. You felt the heat of embarrassment rising in your cheeks. You feel clammy from the cold sweat, an after effect of resisting the vision.
"S-sorry..."
Aragorn kneels next to you, "Sky are you alright?" he whispers, looking very concerned.
"Yes. I'm fine. Thank you," you reply.
"Then you won't mind moving," says Gandalf. "It appears we have just found the gate of Moria."
You look behind you and indeed, the door has revealed itself. It glows blue in the moonlight.
Aragorn helps you to your feet. You feel shaky and Legolas quickly moves in beside you to steady you.
"But what does it say?" someone asks.
"Speak, friend, and enter," says Gandalf before he starts uttering different phrases and tapping the door with his staff, apparently trying to use spells to open it.
"Sky, may I speak with you?" Aragorn asks you quietly. You nod. Legolas looks at you questioningly but as you're about to wave him off, Aragorn nods to him that he can come with.
The three of you walk until you are just out of earshot of the rest of the fellowship.
"What did you see in your vision?" Aragorn quietly asks you.
"Nothing at all, I kept my eyes closed." Aragorn gives you an annoyed look, as though he thinks you are trying to be smart with him. "I really mean it Aragorn, I saw nothing."
"What happened then? You were shouting and thrashing around when Legolas found you."
"It was Sauron..." you trail off, feeling your face grow hot with embarrassment. Aragorn and Legolas both look at you, silently imploring you to go on. "I was angry. I eavesdropped on part of Gandalf's and Frodo's conversation. I think he was warning Frodo against me."
"Did he say your name specifically?" questioned Aragon.
"No. But anyway, I felt angry and hurt. I guess those feelings led me into having that vision. Sauron could feel that I was angry and urged me to give into my anger. Somehow he knows that Gandalf walks with us..."
Legolas and Aragorn exchange a worried look.
"Does he know where we are?" Aragorn asks.
"No, as far as I know he doesn't," you reply.
Aragorn looks like he is about to ask another question but he doesn't have the time to. Gandalf has figured out how to open the door. The way to Moria is open. Now all the Fellowship has to deal with is the darkness of the mines and the giant squid that appears to be rising from out of the lake.
Wait... Giant squid?
"Frodo!" Sam shouts, hacking away at the tentacles that are dragging his friend towards the murky water.
You, Legolas, and Gandalf run towards Sam and Frodo. Bill the pony runs past you three, fleeing the area. Sam gets Frodo free and everyone quickly enters into the relative safety of Moria. The doors close behind you all, plunging the fellowship into darkness. At the door, the monster from the lake is flailing its tentacles. You hear the rocks crumbling outside. You are all officially trapped. The only way to go is forward.
