Another Life

Chapter 2 - Adventures with minature men.

It turned out that sneaking around an Elvish city, I had to assume that was after we passed the fifth Elf, wasn't so easy. Not with such a long dress. I took three steps before I decided I had to go back and change again, which kind of frustrated them. It took me some minutes though.

One door led to a row of amazing dresses, lined up, one after the other. I only stared at them for a moment before moving on, finding a door to another room, and an open drawer caught my attention. Those didn't look like dresses.

For a moment I fumbled around in drawers before I found something, some kind of tights which sort of fit, and a shirt which hung loosely. Men's clothing? It smelt like men's clothing, really, but who cared? Once I had a jacket thing and had my hair tied back, I felt kind of better. Did I dress like this normally? No idea- no memory surfaced to answer me. 

They stared at me as I came out.

"You a man?" Merry blinked.

"A pretty man?" Pippin's eyes openly trailed down to my chest where, although the jacket hid it better, I still clearly had feminine attributes. "No, she's a woman."

"Wouldn't know it with that clothing." Merry said bluntly.

I didn't really care though. I did the buttons up on the jacket and shrugged. "Doesn't bother me what you see me as."

"Up to you." Merry turned. "Let's go!"

We snuck around between gardens, buildings, statues, which still wasn't easy. Elves. Good hearing. I thought that was the case, anyway, though I wasn't sure what had given me that idea. It was amazing though. I kept finding myself getting distracted by the incredible beauty of the place. The sheer amount of detail, care, and love that went into every path, into every bench, into the positioning of each tree and statue...

I wasn't the only one. Both of the little men kept gawking around too, jaws open, and our progress wasn't that fast. It was probably only Pippin's growling stomach that really kept them going forward and me with them. I suspected I'd get lost without them. I had a bad thought suddenly- what if they'd get lost too? This place was beautiful but a bit confusing.