Dead from Legolas. ( AHHHH )
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❝ Ionneg! ❞ The Elvenking was too reckless and his son paid the price. He didn’t see the axe coming down on his right side. His burned side’s sight was weak and not as keen. He missed things when he was focused elsewhere. Legolas did try to repel the heavy axe with his sword yet the opponent was bigger, stronger, faster. A rage consumed him as he roared a battle cry that brought the attacker to a pause. He took advantage with a surgical stroke with his swords. A slice along the jugular and a stab into the gut just to make sure this creature would not rise again.
The skirmish came to an end once the leader was down and left the Elvenking with nothing but himself and his son. Thranduil made a slicing movement through the air to rid his blades of the blood and quickly sheathed his weapons. He wasted no time looking over his son’s wounds. It was bad. He grit his teeth and lifted up his son to physically carry him. He ran with the swiftness of the Eldar yet in his heart, he knew he could never run fast enough.
❝ Legolas, hold on. There’s still so MUCH I haven’t told you, ❞ he murmured quietly, just loud enough for Leoglas to hear him. The Elvenking kept talking about anything that’d come to mind. About his wife, Legolas’ mother. The way her laugh sounded and how much she loved him. About that time Legolas shot him with an arrow and they had to sit outside the healing halls for hours before he could be seen to have the arrow removed and the wound treated. About the giant spider on Legolas’ bed that the Elvenking had to be woken up from his waking sleep to slay. The spider was no small spider.
He kept talking to try and keep his son awake, to keep him here on this plane with him. Yet it was not to be. The elder Sindar’s run began to slow to a canter, to a walk, and then to a complete stop.
The Elvenking quietly sighed as he held his son’s body to his chest. It was too late. It was always too late.