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 Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:43 pm
Elrohir raised one eyebrow curiously. Why on Arda was the kid continually hugging him?
It was another half hour later before they finally made it to the top, and Elrohir first made his way to the spring that was just to the side of the path so that he could have a refreshing drink - his first since leaving the desert.
It revived him somewhat, and he set Lin down on the ground so that she could also drink.
"You're the first person ever up here who didn't come up themselves," he told her, folding his arms across his chest and sighing.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:49 pm
Lin walked over to the spring and used her hands to take a drink, looking up at him with a smile.
"That was a long trip, I could make it by myself..." she pasued, "If you gave me a blanket, food, water and three days."
And just hoped no one stepped on her by then.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:02 pm
Elrohir couldn't help it, he just had to laugh at that: and he did, a hearty laugh that came from deep in his chest. With the laugh, he felt his tension and exhaustion leaving his body; the laughter was a better remedy than the water had been, as wonderful as the water was.
"And just where would you sleep, little one?" he asked, now in a far better mood, kneeling down to get closer to her height again. "You would lay down on a step, roll over and tumble nearly a mile straight down.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:09 pm
"No I wouldn't," Lin replied back with certain conviction, "I wouldn't roll over and fall off a step. I just will keep very still, a step would hold me."
Granted one didn't know if Lin was the type to roll off of anythign since she was so small and everhwere she would sleep would be very big.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:15 pm
"And when some very sleepy trainees came and stepped on you very early in the morning, when the skye was still black?" Elrohir quipped, raising his one eyebrow even higher and reaching down to pick her up again.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:38 pm
"I'm not that small," Lin protested as she let him pick her up again.
At least she didn't think so, but she was surrounded by people who came from her size so it was only normal that to her it wasn't that small. there were smaller, though she had never met anyone smaller, but she was sure they existed.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:43 pm
"Yes," Elrohir replied flatly, straightening and setting her back on his shoulders; "you are."
He set off towards the training area once more, but this stretch of the trek was the easy bit - just off down the path between two steep walls of stone.
That didn't mean it was short, though.
"Are you sure this trip would only take you three days?" he chuckled to the girl as he made his way towards the gates of the training compound.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:50 pm
It must be quiet a hidden place Lin thought at least the training implications of it all hadn't occurec to her, she was too young to think about that.
"If I tried really really hard," she told Elrohir, "I could make it in three days."
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:57 pm
"Then I think I would have to ask someone to examine your sanity," Elrohir replied, rolling his eyes. He wondered briefly why the child was so stuck on getting up here on her own.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:04 pm
The gates to the training compound were wide open, and the sound of shouts and thuds could be heard. Someone was obviously in the middle of a training session -- or many someones, judging by the volume. An entire troop of someones ...
A tall elf appeared in the gateway, long black hair pulled back into a low ponytail. His copper skin was dotted with beads of sweat, and his bare torso and arms were covered in scars. Another scar went from the corner of his mouth to the corner of his eye. His baggy tan pants were smudged with dirt and had a tear in one knee.
When he saw Elrohir, he put one muscular arm across his chest and bowed his head. "My lord," he said reverently; then he straightened and looked at the child with curious brown eyes. "And who is this?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:24 pm
Lin stared, she c ouldn't help it, the man had more scars than her big brother! Well.. and her Daddy, but she had never seen a scar on her daddy before. Though she didn't know it, Donovan had his removed by magic, since scars were too much of a way to identify people, his clan would allow no tattoos and no scars.
"I'm Lin," she finally spoke up, she wasn't going to let someone speak for her.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:33 pm
Elrohir nearly laughed again. He had been with this girl for well over an hour now, and he hadn't bothered to ask her her name! He really had been braindead ...
"She's from Gaia, where my sister went," he explained to the elf.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:37 pm
The elf chuckled deeply. "Ah," he murmured, his weathered face wrinkling around his eyes and the corners of his lips, "so this is the girl Eärendil has been talking about ..."
He tried to look stern so that he could scold her for coming up here (because he knew for a fact that she knew she wasn't allowed) but he was too amused by her presence to manage it. Instead he just introduced himself.
"Eldrin," he bowed to Lin. "Captain of the Home Guard, head trainer of the Elven Southland Army and the Home Guard ... also brother to Lúthien, Eärendil's mother - his uncle. Pleased to meet you."
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:57 pm
If Lin could while being held in Elrohir's arms she would ahve bowed herself but as it was she couldn't, but she nodded her head in a bow politely.
"It's good to meet you too!" she pipped up, returning the greeting, "I didn't know you were Earendil's uncle."
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:06 pm
"Yes, well," Eldrin sighed, his smile fading slightly, "his father doesn't spread it around. I'm not surprised. Be that as it may, it has nothing to do with my position ... in fact, it hardly matters at all."
He finally found the strength to frown (though it really was a weak frown), and he murmured softly, "You know ... you really shouldn't be up here. I know Eärendil's told you that."
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