"Is it possible that the king's accusations are in vain?" - Tauriel thought. If Legolas loves her... then only as a brother? This assumption made Legolas both quiet and hard. Meanwhile, the prince stroked her hair, came down with his palm on his forearm, touched his wrist and slid his fingers through his open palm. Tender, fleeting. As only he could. Not wanting to think about anything else, Tauriel closed her eyes by sticking her hand behind his back, clinging to her waist and clasping tighter. "Don't give him hope. Isn't it too late? How many times did they sit like that? Like, brother and sister? No, not anymore. Tauriel raised her head. If you give in to it a little bit forward, you can touch his cheeks with your lips. His chest was shy and his cheeks were full of blood. They met with looks.
To take hope away from him, we must take hope away from him, and she will not be able to do so. Because she never stops hoping!
Tauriel took away his thin pigtails from his temple by the shoulder - the commander never liked the hair falling on his face, they only interfere with the archer. He grabbed it by the wrist, holding it to the chest, to the heart, and weaving his fingers with it. Tauriel felt the heat flowing from palm to palm. Every breath and exhalation became deeper and more frequent. She was dizzy. You just have to give in a little bit to the front to touch the lips of her lips.
- Anxiety! - At the foot of the stairs to the Upper Chertogi there appeared an anxious and disheveled guard - Dwarves escaped!
[*] Chrylorn is the royal beech of Elve Tingola in Doriat.
[**] Fram of son Frumgar - the leader of Rohantsev in the Second Epoch, who has killed the Great Scata Worm and has taken the treasures taken by a dragon from dwarfs of Grey mountains. Fram has sent them a necklace from teeth of Scatha, instead of gold on which dwarves have declared the right, and has been killed by them.
[***] Golodrim was the name of the people who came from the West, Noldor.
5. Strange fate
Eldar believed that those who did not find a couple in the spring years had a strange fate. It meant that the time had not come yet, and somewhere in other lands or other times there was one of the ones who was meant to be from the creation of Arda. Ever since Erin Galen covered the darkness, a strange fate has fallen to many. There were almost no weddings, and no children came to the world at all. Tauriel was one of the last to find life in Erin Galen. The idea that Legolas knew her father and was once his commanding officer had become a habit and did not prevent him from seeing his brother as a friend and even...
He waited almost as long as anyone else. Sighing, the virgins said that the fate of the prince was not here. Tauriel did not know if Lord Tranduel believed in it, but suspected it was true. Hardly imagining a strange fate of his son, the king saw a redheaded girl from the nandor, who was once picked up on the battlefield by a squeaky lump in the hollow of a tree. He must have dreamt of becoming Lord Melian, a majestic and beautiful maiden. And perhaps the king wouldn't have forgiven Tauriel or Legolas for disappointment.
She cured the wounded and fought fiercely with her enemies, but she could only be herself and try to kill as many orcs as Belég or Mablungu couldn't get. But still, what does a truly loving fatherly heart not tolerate? Perhaps someday the king will appreciate it and understand it. After all, Tauriel is still dear to him. Otherwise, it just couldn't have been. She believed.
- Find the key-keeper! - Taurielle shouted, running down the stairs of the lower tier at the head of a group of archers. On her orders, the guards returned to the dungeons by morning and found the cameras empty. The warden was looking for Elrosa. He and Gallion were seen in the wine cellar. Legolas raised a general alarm, but apparently the dungeons were emptied, not by witchcraft or force, but my keys. They can only be obtained from a breathless body. However, Tauriel thought so, she was wrong. Running into the cellar room, she noticed not dead but dead drunk key men and the palace manager, as well as a rocking barrel alloy hole, just before the last fugitive had disappeared. Tauriel could have sworn that she had not seen him among the prisoners. He was beardless and not dressed like his buddies. How did he get into the palace? At the top of the gatekeeper's battle horn was slashed, proclaiming that the gate was to be closed over the Forest. So, Legolas already knows. Already sees them.
- Behind me, to the gate, - Tauriel made a sign, taking the archers with her on a secret path, leading directly to the wall above the river, separating the palace hill from the forest. There was a sentinel of the Guardsmen from the guards. It was enough to catch the prisoners who had gone into hiding in the water, but their hearts were in trouble.