[Eressië Ailin]

Eress slammed down on the brakes of her yellow Jeep as she neared the red carpet. Her long dark brown hair had been hastily pulled back from her crystal blue eyes in a low ponytail. She was wearing a hot pink tank top and a pair of ripped jeans, but this was acceptable, as she was coming in early to help decorate. And she, of course, had the dress that had been given to her by her fairy Gollum-mother.

'Mith!' Eress called. 'I'm here early to start decor... Mith?'

She took off her sunglasses, only to find the thousands of reporters surrounding her. Some one stood up and said, 'You know that you're eight-and-a-half hours late, hon.'

'Oh Eru...' she breathed softly. 'How was I supposed to this party started at nine in the morning, not at night?!?! Oh well... guess I'm just fashionably late.'

She hopped out of her Jeep, grabbed the dress, and hurried to the bathroom so she could change.

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About an hour later, Eress came out of the bathroom, transformed. Her hair was in some sort of an inexplainable, exquisite, elegant masterpiece; it was a work of art. The dress was made of an unidentifyable deep blood-red fabric, resembling crushed silk. The dress had a v-neck cut, her shoulders were bare, her sleeves billowing, and the dress was hemmed with golden thread. A goldenrod rope was tied in the back, slightly above the waist.

Fortunately, the dress was long enough to cover her feet. Not that Eress had ugly misshapen feet, or anything, but... We have mentioned her fairy Gollum-mother before; have we not? This Gollum-mother of hers had a good heart, no doubt, but was a tad forgetful. When I say a tad, I mean that, for instance, instead of forgetting to put salt on the radishes, her fairy Gollum-mother would, in all likelyhood, forget to put radishes under the salt.

Now her fairy Gollum-mother was regaining his/her/it's memory (slowly but surely), so Eress decided to entrust him/her/it with the simple task of making an evening gown. Her fairy Gollum-mother had been recovering for quite some time now, and therefore did a fairly good job with the dress. It is a well-known fact that with every evening gown you need an appropriate pair of matching slippers. This was the bit that the fairy Gollum-mother left out. The slippers. Which leaves poor Eress with a lovely gown and a pair of worn sneakers.

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'Weapons?' one of the Uruk-guards growled.

Eress twirled gracefully. 'Do I look like one to be carrying weapons?'

'Go on in,' snarled the same Uruk-guard.