Maybe it won't happen again, she thought, maybe it's just to mess with my head.
Tauriel sat an hour later from receiving the letter, watching the sunrise.
Legolas had found her sprawled on the floor and freaked. She woke up coughing from the water he splashed on her face and ordered him out. Now she sat alone thinking about what the letter and the mysterious sender could mean, if she ever saw that seal again it would be too soon, but all of this emotion and rage and confusion brought on by a few words; you have 58 days.
That was what the seal meant, 58 days.
That was all she had left here.
Nobody can know, she thought, maybe i will have to leave before my time, anybody could find these letters and they would know exactly what it means.
The story of this curse is whispered, it is one people try to forget and use everything they have within them to repel, it is a terrible fate. For years Tauriel had sat side by side with her fellow elves and in all of her years within Mirkwood it only came up once. The curse - her curse- was that of the prophetess and the thought of what one may experience is enough to loose your appetite as had all of the elves at the banquet for her beginning service to the surpassing royals, the Elvenking Thranduil and his son, Prince Legolas.
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"You have to help me!" Tauriel screamed at him in a whisper as to not wake the company present.
"You know i cant, especially not from here." He replied obviously fustrated.
"Please, You of all people should understand." She, tried to calm herself.
He sighed and scratched his forearm, considering the options and outcomes of the situation, but when he looked up she was gone.
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Later in the day after attending to her business, she had changed into freshly pressed clothes for dining later that evening when she found the letter where she left it, under lock and key, again and again she read it until she was sure the script was branded into her eyes from the sight of it. The words brought back the memory of earlier in the day.
A knock at the door sent her scrambling to hide the letter when Legolas let himself in.
"I hope i'm not interrupting but we have escapees."
Tauriel looked at him.
"No i checked on the guards myself!" She was trying hard to keep her face expressionless but something about his voice nearly pulled the truth out of her mouth.
"Regardless, Tauriel we leave in an hour.'
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Flames: A Burnt Letters Novel
Fanfic{I do not own these characters, they belong to J.R.R Tolkien and The Hobbit/LOTR movies} This story is set place during the time that the wood elves come into the hobbit. Yes I have read the book but this is more from the movies sequence of events...
