[Galadel Vinorel]

Galadel could not say anything when Roa released Snaveling from her. It seemed as if the calming words that she wished to say were caught deep in her throat. She choked baack the tears that wished to come from her eyes and looked at Roa sadly. "Oh why, Roa?" she thought to herself, "It is not supposed to appen this way." Galaadel's heart was beating very fast alll of a sudden. "What is wrong with me?" And then a memory came, one from when she was only a young adult, a memory that she had spent years trying to forget.

"Sister!" said a young voice. The voice echoed through the woods of Lothlorien as a young elf girl with flowing golden hair and bare feet ran through the sweet grass of her homeland. "Sister come back here. Mama and Papa warned us not to go tooo far away. You are going to get me in trouble. I was supposed to keep an eye on you," said the girl, searchingly from side to side as she ran desperately, with increasing speed.
Suddenly a bloodcurdling scream echoed through the forest. It was the scream of a terrified little child. Immediately the running girl halted, a horrifed look upon her face. "Yarvenel!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. Then she began to run faster, with all the strength that she had towards the direction of the scream.
When she had reached one of the meadows she stopped to catch her breath, and that's when she saw her. In the middle of the meadow, her own blood staining the grass red around her, laid a small child, blonde hair also stained almost completely red by the blood streaming forth from the wound on her head. "Oh no! Yarvenel!" creid the older girl. Running to her sister, she fell upon her knees, tears streaming down her face. "What happened?"
The child's eyes fluttered open, a a tired and pained look in her eyes. "I'm sorry sister. I thought that I could climb the tree to touch the pretty bird, but I fell. I'm sorry for running away," said Yarvenel softly. "It's allright, little one. Everything will be fine now," said the older girl sadly.


"But there was no helping her," thought Galadel as the memory faded from her, "I could not save her. But I won't let myself make the same mistake twice. I must do something to heal this fued between Roa and Snaveling. Snaveling must not leave yet."

Galadel then stood up from where she had been seating. Leaving a confused Roa and Val behind her, the elf walked firmly towards the Inn's road where Toby and Snaveling stood talking.