Long Lost Leaves - part II

[Mari]

"I don't know. I guess that is for Radagast to decide. Yesterday Nami and I, uhm... we got lost. So we didn't really find anything, not even each other." Ellysa looked a bit embarrassed at admitting this.
"Actually, we probably only held up the entire search. Sorry Abasi!" She could understand that a warrior like Abasi would get bored waiting here. And their wanderings hadn't helped the search much either.

[Midge]

"Wha.. What do I look like?" Aerin looked at herself. She'd never thought about it much before. "Well... Uh.. I have long dark hair that ends past my waist, and I'm wearing a Messenger's raiment (have you seen that?). I suppose my face looks normal... my mouth is sort of full, but not very large or anything. I've never liked my nose... Does anybody? It is just a plain straight one. Not that I want a huge one or a crooked one, I suppose... Goodness, this is a hard question to answer, Quickleaf. My eyes are a blue-gray color that actually looks green in some lights. My teeth are very straight. I am not too tall, but not too short either. I walk lightly on my feet. Have I forgotten anything?"

[feawen]

After giving the food out Nami was about to go to her normal spot by Quickleaf, but finding it filled by Aerin Nami took her breakfast and sit a little way off by the fire.

Leaning against a tree stump and waited for someone to talk too.

[Acalewia]

"Yes we did find Elyssa" Aelfwine smiled at Hedrim's words
"Good," she said, releved her friend was safe. She said good mornig to Nami, who was back to her cheerful self. After the others had begun to gather for breakfast, she saw Nami had gone off and sat by herself. Aelfwine caught her eye and motioned for her to sit next to her and Hedrim. Perhaps together they could hear the new elf, Nixie's, story.

[Coffeehouse]

Quickleaf spoke to Aerin with a smile, "It is a fine description, and now I may imagine a fair face, along with the fair deed you performed helping me from the abyss of Dol Guldur"
and with that Quickleaf went quiet, his veiled gaze set upon the campfire, though he saw nothing he could feel its glow and waited to listen to the newcomer and any other talk among the fellowship.

[Nixie]

Radagast seemed to be taking his time with his thoughts so Nixie thanked Nami for the breakfast with a nod and a smile. She turned her attention back to Radagast and gave some insight to her journey to find him, though she thought it best to leave the details of how she received the letter late for another time, when not so many entrusting eyes were upon her. Well At least she needed to gain their trust, as they did hers.

"It took a while to find you, but the storm was my biggest challenge. It detained me from searching out your group and I had to leave a fellow traveler behind. He is headed back to Rivendell as of the previous night." She said smiling kindly with a soft face.

[Midge]

Aerin was quiet after Quickleaf had responded to her description of herself. She didn't really feel any need to continue talking, especially when she had so much catching up to do with the wind and the grass and the sunshine after that long sojourn underground.

[feawen]

Seeing Aelfwine call over to her Nami stood up and went over to the two humans. Settling down next to them, her feet out streached towards the fire.

[Coffeehouse]

Quickleaf listened to Nixie, and curiosity awoke when he heard of a second traveller, whom had returned home.. Strange it seemed, and he was eager to hear why. It was an unfortunate business to come so far, beyond the Misty Mountains and into the lush Greenwood Forest, only to return.
Waiting to hear Radaghast speak, Quickleaf lay back on the grass, his silver hair soaking the dew that hung on the tip of every straw. And the sun hit his face, Quickleaf content to get a moment of peace among his companions again. No cold underground, no lost friends.

[Curufin]

Abasi shrugged nonchalantly at Ellysa's apology, not quite understanding exactly why she felt the need to do so. The years that he had lived had made his patience near infinite, and if the others - including the seth'enati felt that they needed to search for Mysteries, then it was not his place to object.

As long as they did not ask him to follow, that was.

With a fluid movement, Abasi stood, crossing his arms over his chest and looking at her for a long while.

'You are too soft,' he said simply - the words a statement of fact, not a question or a challenge. 'You need not constantly apologize.'

[Mari]

Ellysa got a slight twinkle in her eye before replying: "Sorry Abasi, I'll try not to apologize as much."
She became serious again and the thought that Abasi might not appreciate cheekiness flashed through her mind. Abruptly she changed the subject and looked towards Tabril.
"Will you two join us for breakfast? Or can I get you anything? Maybe you could tell me about your weapons. I've never seen such weapons before though I've seen many different kinds from different races."

[Willow Oran]

After waking Haldis had immediately gone about ridding herself of the remaining grimes gathered the day before, and by the time she exited her tent she found her compnaions gathered around the cooking fire, apparently greeting yet another elf.

Haldis stopped a moment, bemused. This business of acquiring new traveling companions at the rate of an elf a day was getting faintly ridiculous. But it seemed Radagast had already accepted this newcomer so that was that as far as Haldis was concerned.

Not yet hungry she spotted Ellysa with the first two randomly acquired elves and went to join them sitting quietly beside Tabril.

[The Sasquatch of Fangorn]

"So...." said Borin. "What now?"

[Coffeehouse]

Quickleaf, waking up from hazy day-dreaming, heard Borin's voice balloon into the air. The blindness made him keen at sounds and smells, but confusingly enough forced him behind a veil of sorts, as if Quickleaf stood watching his companions behind a vast white curtain, the sounds of their voices playing like shadows before his eyes. Raising his hand, and smiling contently, Quickleaf remarked, "I have an announcement!" and he put his right hand on Aerin's shoulder, getting shakily up, "Nami... this is a particularly fine sample of mushroom! Much pleased dear elven maid!"

[Acalewia]

Aelfwine couldn't help but smile at Quickleaf's "announcement".

[feawen]

Nami, mushroom half to her mouth, looked up suprised. She blushed slightly not used to complaiments, espically ones from Quickleaf. Remembering her self and her company, Nami laughed and made a mock bow, "The honour is all mine good sir!" Nami smiled cheekly to herself, "If only your bow skills were as good as your flatterly, when your sight comes back we will have to have bow classes!"

[Midge]

At Quickleaf's announcement, Aerin decided to quit the company for the morning. She would much rather have sat with Haldis, who seemed as though the things she said were worth listening to, or the two elves, who had stood like sentinels outside Dol Guldur as they emerged, obviously full of history, unlike Aerin herself. However, to Aerin, those people almost seemed like one needed an invitation to approach, and seeing as she had received none, she got up and walked away from the chattering group around the fire towards a bit of forest that was near and quiet.

[Aikanáro]

Tabrîl had kept her distance from the group since their return from Dol Guldur. They had brought out with them another elf, and she could not see why they allowed this Aerin to remain here. Nothing that came from that place could be trusted, certainly not an elf.

Yet Tabrîl said nothing of it, it was not her place to do so. She simply made sure that she kept safe what she wished to keep safe, the rest did not matter.

Quickleaf's blindness, too, bothered her. It meant that he was no longer a threat to her or Abasi, true, but she did not see the point in keeping him with the group when he would undoubtedly prove to be nothing but a burden to them. If he had a home to go to, surely he should return to it. But this opinion too Tabrîl had kept to herself.

She stayed with Abasi for the most part, and it was when she was sitting with him one morning that Ellysa approached her, said something to her in that language of hers. Tabrîl could tell from the girl's rising inflections that there were questions, but she understood little else.

Turning to Ellysa, she gave her the slightest hint of a smile before addressing her in rapid Avarin. 'If I had learnt your language I might answer you. I did not. While I am almost certain you mean well I have very little idea of what you say to me. Possibly no more than you can understand what I say to you now, if that gives any indication. Does it?'

She glanced over at Abasi to her left, and then at Haldis who had decided to sit to her right, and then looked back at Ellysa, expectantly.

[Willow Oran]

Haldis shook her head slightly at the expressions of confusion brought about by languages obviously not mutually understood, "Speak Sindarin, Tabrîl. I will translate then," she said before a misunderstanding could occur, "What were your questions, Ellysa?"

[Mari]

Happily Ellysa looked at Haldis, glad that the woman would help her speak with Tabril. She liked the two elves and wanted to know more about them.
"Oh, wait a minute Haldis! I'll go get us food, so we can talk over breakfast!" She almost ran towards the fire and the food, nodding and smiling at the people sitting there while grabbing 4 bowls and filling them up.

After giving everyone a bowl she sat down. It had been hard to decide on the order of giving everyone their food, because she didn't quite know where to place Tabril. As a woman she was below the wise woman Haldis, but as a warrior she was above her. She had solved the problem by placing the bowls in the middle. It wasn't correct, but at least it wouldn't offend anyone.

"Okay, Haldis, could you please say good morning to Tabril and ask her about her weapons? Maybe you could teach me some of their language later."