Aurora Mae

by Mentha Spicata

Aurora Mae is a student at Sunshine Middle School. She lost her mother at an early age, and she didn't talk much with her father. One day, she fell into the world of The Lord of the Rings. In that world, she discovered a big secret that had never been revealed. In that world, instead of making a lot of good friends, Aurora Mae found what she had lost in the human world.

7. Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Cynelith had to leave to go to a different room under the tree. Queen Galadriel led me down the tree, too.

We walked for a while. There was another little clearing between the trees. In the middle, there was a huge silver bowl. I looked inside the bowl. It was filled with water.

"Look down," said the Queen. "You will see something that will answer your questions."

I did what she said. There was nothing in the water except for my reflection first. But then the water began to swirl. In the swirl I saw another woman. She had almost the same appearance as me!

I looked up at Queen Galadriel, but she gestured down toward the bowl. I kept on looking.

I saw the woman in the reflection was eating in a restaurant with my father. She wore a dress that had the same style of the people here. Then I saw the sign of the restaurant, which said Délicieux.

Hey, that's the same restaurant as the one under my flat. I remembered that my father had told me the first place he met my mother was this restaurant!

If my father hadn't told me the wrong thing, then this woman is my mother.

Then the scene in the silver bowl changed: I saw my mother standing in this forest, and Queen Galadriel was standing near her.

"I can't live without him," said my mother to the Queen. "I would like to choose to be a mortal."

"But you know the consequences of it," said the Queen. "It's not clever to marry someone who won't sacrifice that much for you."

"Please. I've made my choice."

Galadriel didn't answer. Suddenly, my mother took a step back and began to disappear. Some wind blew, and the wind began to surround her.

"I won't change my choice," said my mother sadly. "I don't care how much he will sacrifice for me."

The water began to swirl again. After the water stopped, there was only my reflection left in the water.

"You see," said the Queen. "That's what I wanted to show you. Your mother is from our world. She is a great, beautiful elf. But I don't know how she is now because three years after that, she came back. She looked really pale and ethereal. She told me that there is a big fissure between two worlds - ours and yours. After that she disappeared like a shadow. You must come from that world, right?"

"Yes," I said. "But I don't know why I'm here. The only thing I know is some grass- and persimmon-scented wind surrounded me, and then I was here."

"Just as I thought," said Galadriel. "That same thing happened when your mother disappeared. Maybe that's the smell when someone travels through the fissure. But I always wondered why the fissure came to be, until I saw this."

Her hand reached to my chest and she pulled out a little necklace. The pendant was a tiny piece of opal.

"This is not a usual opal," she said. "If all of my thinking is correct, this stone is from that fissure."