[Witch_Queen]

The return of Cree and Avalon

Her black hair hung loose around her face. Cree's gray eyes locked on the door of the Green Dragon. It had been awhile since she had last set her eyes on the inn. Avalon was perched on Cree's shoulder and let out a schreech of aproval. Cree placed her right hand on Avalon's small head and began to stroke the birds feathers. "I know, it does feel good to be back." The last time Cree was at the inn was with Grimm. That seemed so long ago for her. After leaving the Inn Cree and Grimm took seperate paths. For her the road lead to a far off land.

Cree had been searching for the man that killed her father. Everything was the way I thought. My actual father is no longer alive and the man I knew as a father is still dead. His murderer goes without punishment. Cree walked over to the doors and opened them. The sound of merriment flooded her ears. It had been so long since she had been around hobbits. For Cree hobbits were marvelous creatures. She admired their homes. Eryn Lasgalen was so far away and was in the past. Unless she found a reason to go back, Cree decided that perhaps she would never return to the land she grew up in.

Looking around Cree noticed that there was many new faces. Faces that she didn't recognize. Her cloak settled down as Cree closed the door. Avalon gave her screech of greetings to everyone before Cree could find a table. Looking around Cree thought she recognized a familar face. Walking over to the table that Adu and Hama was setting at, Cree realized it was her old friend."Fáinu, is that you?" The figure turned around. "I haven't seen you in so long. After the incident causing your hand to be burned I haven't even heard a single word from you."

Suddenly memories from her life in Eryn Lasgalen came back to her. The two of them would ride horses together. Ocassionally when Thranduil would be meeting with her father, Cree would always talk to Fáinu about the weather and life itself. She always thought that her friendship with Fáinu would last for all her life. Yet the day he left tore her up inside. "Fáinu, why didn't you come back for me? I have wondered what had happened to you." Looking at his hand Cree realized that the burn still hadn't healed completely. Reaching to her side Cree could still feel the pain of her previous episodes. The pain of her side could never surpass the pain of her broken heart.