A funeral was held for the king's son. Eowyn sang a song that I didn't really like. Generally speaking, this grieving was not my world, so I was a bit offside and more concerned about how my father would react. Their singing was not beautiful and brought me out of my mind and I looked to the group standing around the grave. I slightly twisted my eyes. Death was an everyday thing, and even if a king's son died, this was no reason to make such a big effort. But maybe I was wrong. Maybe I thought so only because I had grown up in Mordor and didn't really know mercy.

After that, everyone went back to their duties. I followed Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Eowyn into the royal house and when I looked back again, I saw Theoden weeping in front of the grave and Gandalf standing in front of it. At that moment, a thought shot through my head. It was painful. "Everything okay?" Legolas suddenly asked me. I turned around. I hadn't even noticed that he was behind me. "Yes, all very well," I said, but he just raised an eyebrow, and I knew there was no point in denying that. "I was just thinking about whether my dad would react like that if I died," I said, and it hurt even more. Legolas looked at me in shock, "Where is he?" I just shook my head and smiled. "I don't want to talk about it" He just nodded and took me in his arms. I cramped and didn't know how to react at first. But then I answered the hug, and it did well. After a short time, I broke free from the hug and went with Legolas to the others. After some time Theoden and Gandalf came back and had two young children with them. A girl and a boy. Both were quite starved and Eowyn gave them soup. Gandalf began to discuss with Theoden whether the Rohirrim would come to Helm's gorge, because Theoden wanted to go there for fear of Saruman. Gandalf wanted them to stay here and fight, but Theoden did not let himself be changed. The discussion went on, but I digressed. I had become weak. I never thought about whether my father cared about me or not. But now I did, and I didn't like it. Feelings weakened and I did not want and should not become weak. At least I had to do something that would make my father proud of me. In the past, I didn't mind that I didn't care about my father and he didn't care about me, but at the time I still felt it was normal. Now that I had seen that there were other fathers, I wished that he could at least show me attention, concern, or love. I pushed these thoughts out of my head. I should focus on other things. Gandalf just didn't go off the look of a happy looking way, which made me suspect that Theoden had won the discussion. As the other companions ran after Gandalf, I joined them. Gandalf seemed very upset and wanted to leave what it looked like. Before he left, he said to us, "Expect me at the sunrise of the fifth day!" I wondered what he was planning to do, but now I and the other companions had to prepare us for the way to Helm's gorge. We would have to ride again, which I completely disliked. I didn't know how to survive riding for so long, and as I knew my father, he already suspected that Rohan would flee to Helm's gorge. So, he would also take advantage of the moment when the Raw Irrimes were the most vulnerable and attacked them along the way. I could only hope that the Orcs had the order not to attack me this time, because as long as I was sitting on a horse, I couldn't defend myself properly. We set out to get the horses. Even Gimli got his own. When I tried to get a horse out of the box, it snorted at me and showed me his teeth, so I was terrified. Behind me I heard a quiet laugh, and I knew it was Legolas of the Elbe. "You'll probably never learn to ride," he said, smiling as he sat on a white horse. "Well come," he said, holding his hand. Should I really accept this offer. I didn't understand why he wanted to help me at all, because it didn't really bring him anything. Eventually something came to mind and I pulled Galadriel's stone out of my pocket. The next moment I saw in my head how Me and Legolas rode together on the white horse between the raw irrime. Then I realized that I actually wanted to be careful, because I didn't know what the stone was doing. But now it was too late anyway, and I reached for Legolas hand, after which he helped me on the horse. Unexpectedly, this took a quick step forward and I was able to hold on to the Elbe just at the last moment. He seemed to find this quite amusing. "Why are you helping me all the time?" I asked Legolas, and he looked at me surprised. "Because friends do this to each other," he said, smiling. I smiled slightly and nodded. Then I sat upright on the horse's back and put my arms around Legolas belly and he laughed again. "What!?" I asked him. "Nothing," he said with a laugh, "When this is over, I'll teach you how to ride." I had a slight grin on my face, but this vanished after Legolas last sentence. If that was over here, I would be standing next to my father and it didn't matter if I wanted it or not. No one would accept me here if they knew I was Sauron's daughter and Legolas wasn't. He drove the horse and rode out of the stable. Eowyn was standing there and when I looked at her, she suddenly had a strange but also slightly anxious look. Shortly afterwards, she turned around and ran in the other direction.

We've been riding for quite a while and my eyes got heavy. I had never really found sleep in Lothlorien and since we left this place, I hadn't really slept. And so, it happened that I put my head on Legolas back and my eyes fell.

When I woke up, I heard the call of a warge and knew what was going to happen next and I didn't know what to do. It felt right to warn others, but I didn't want to betray my father either. "Legolas, let me down," I said to him, and he looked at me in amazement. "I want to run a little bit," I said as an excuse. It was cowardly to want to push myself before a fight and I knew that, but I couldn't. I couldn't fight my dad. I had killed the Uruks who had attacked me, but only because they had attacked me. Legolas stopped the mold and I slipped off the horse's back. Then I ran a little bit beside him. Just when Legolas wanted to ask me something, someone screamed. "Warge!" someone else shouted. "All the riders at the top of the train!" the king shouted, and Legolas galloped the mold. I went with the women and children and blamed myself for not going to fight. Eowyn led the women and children on to Helm's gorge and when it was in sight she stopped. I also stopped a little offside and looked around for the riders. They hadn't returned yet and I didn't know how strong the other side was and I doubted if everyone would survive it at all. Whether Legolas would survive it. I paused. I hoped Legolas survived. The Legolas that almost discovered me in the mines of Moria and was actually a thorn in my eye. Suddenly Eowyn was standing next to me and I looked at her. "Wouldn't you want to fight?" she asked me, and I shook my head. "You?" I asked her, and she, too, shook her head. "You're different from the other elves," Eowyn said at one point, and I looked at her bewildered, "Heartless and colder. Your eye color changes more often, or? I know who you are, and you should leave it." With those words she went. I looked after her and my face darkened. She couldn't know who I really am, but she could guess that I was on the side of evil and this would be a problem. So, I would first have to prove to her that I was supposedly on her side.

When I arrived in Helm Klamm I sat down on the stairs and waited. What I didn't know, because I doubted a return of the riders, but I still hoped that a few would come back and that among them was Legolas. "Make room for the king!" someone suddenly shouted, and I heard the sound of hooves on the cold stones. I got up and saw the few riders who had come back. A small smile spread on my face when I saw Legolas, but it quickly disappeared, because the Elbe looked quite sad and after further review of the returnees, I could not find Aragorn among them. Good news for my father, as he was the legacy of Isildur and was the only one my father was afraid of and not even right. Eowyn also seemed to notice that Aragorn had not returned and seemed rather desperate. When she was finally told that he had fallen, she could hardly hold back the tears. Legolas came up to me and looked at me sadly. "He has fallen!" he confirmed to me, which I already knew anyway. Somehow, I was sorry for Legolas. He and Aragorn had been very close. However, I quickly put this thought aside and pretended to be sad. Everyone in the fortress was happy to be safe, but I knew it was just a fantasy, because Mordor's powers of war were powerful and Isengard's were even more so. I had seen them, and it was impossible for people to kill these orcs. Time passed and suddenly I hooves and saw a horse with a rider. It was Aragorn. I didn't know if I should be happy or not. It was as if everything and everyone wanted to fight me, so that Sauron would lock me up somewhere in the end and let me forget there. Aragorn went up and into the innermost ring of the fortress, where on the one hand the king but also me, Legolas and Gimli were. Legolas seemed to rejoice and spoke briefly with Aragorn, then he went on to Theoden. Eventually we learned that ten thousand Uruks were on their way here. Anyone who could fight was sent to the armory to prepare for the fight. Women and children were sent to the caves under the fortress because they had shelter there. A few soldiers were assigned to watch out at the entrances if the Uruks came to the fortress. Theoden was not convinced that this would be the case but preferred to be on the safe side. Eowyn was also categorized as the women and children and I was happy because that's how I got rid of them and didn't have to be careful to do anything that could betray me. At that moment we heard a horn at once, but it wasn't an orc horn.

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