Author's note: Imagine Lheora and Galeorhin meeting at last and (somehow) the song is playing in the background. Sappy and slightly pointless songfic for my favorite original fic.
This fic has been written with the author’s permission. It contains some tiny spoilers I dragged out of the author. :D ;) Also, some of this is my impression of the characters and not author description. I apologise if any character detail is wrong, I do my best!
The song is “At the beginning”, sung by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx. It’s on the soundtrack of the Disney movie “Anastasia”.




At the Beginning


(Female singer)

We were strangers,
starting out on a journey
Never dreaming
what we’d have to go through


Two figures were standing in a desert that was once a forest. Black sand whirled lazily around them. They appeared to be polar opposites. Both of them were Elves one female, one male. She had long white hair, eyes as black as midnight, and skin tanned by exposure to the sun. His hair was equally as long but dark as her eyes, his eyes were palest blue, and his skin seeming untouched by sunlight before now.


Now here we are,
and I’m suddenly standing,
at the beginning with you


They stood facing each other, silent; barely able to believe this moment had come at last.

“I was beginning to wonder if I would ever see you again.”


(Male Singer)

No one told me
I was going to find you,
Unexpected
what you did to my heart


“I have missed you more than I can say.”

“It’s been so long, Galeorhin Galues, are you really here? Or am I dreaming?”

“Sometimes, Lheora Yhanni,” he spoke her name for the sheer joy of knowing she was there to hear it, “I think my whole life from the moment I met you has been a dream. Are you truly standing here before me?”


(Both singers)

When I lost hope
you were there to remind me
this is the start


“More truly than I ever was before. We’ve come nearly a full circle in our lives. Here we stand on the border of what was once the great forest.”

“A tragic irony that everything we knew is gone, yet we are still bound not to walk on that once piece of land.”

“Does it matter now?”


And life is a road
and I wanna to keep going
love is a river
I wanna keep flowing
life is a road
now and forever
wonderful journey


“No. In all these long years there has only been one reason for me to return here.”

“Very long years.” agreed Lheora. She sat down pulling Galeorhin with her. He complied willingly and they sat in silence needing no words to communicate what they felt.


I'll be there when the world stops turning
I'll be there when the storm is through
in the end I wanna be standing
at the beginning with you


“The magic is still here. Electis and the others are gone, even Riax, the Dhija too.”

Lheora’s voice was low as if she were afraid of speaking too loudly.

“Every member of the race we were born of. Every race that walked upon this land, and I have seen them all, some of them died out some of them moved on.”

“Why did you come back? or have you been here all along?”


(female singer)

We were strangers
on a crazy adventure


(male singer)

Never dreaming
how our dreams would come true


“I was here then I left. Now I have returned. A friend told me you had gotten here at last, I wanted to meet you.”


(Both singers)

Now here we stand unafraid of the future
At the beginning with you


“I only wish it could have been sooner!”

“As do I. I was told that things I did would not have been done unless I was here without you.”

“I have been told the same,” agreed Galeorhin. “That is past now though.”


And life is a road
and I wanna to keep going
love is a river
I wanna keep flowing
life is a road
now and forever
wonderful journey


“I was going to ask you how you managed then it occurred to me that it was, perhaps, the same way I did.”


I knew there was somebody somewhere
like me alone in the dark
Now I know my dream will live on
I’ve been waiting so long
Nothing’s gonna tear us apart


“I had faith in the fact that I loved you and you loved me.”

“Not even Fate could keep us apart.”


And life is a road
and I wanna to keep going
love is a river
I wanna keep flowing
life is a road
now and forever
wonderful journey


“Or perhaps They have always intended for us to be together?”

“They do have an obscure sense of humour.”

“Was that agreement I heard? You have changed!”

“Even Immortality is not proof against change.”


Life is a road and I wanna keep going
Love is a river I wanna keep going on
Starting out on a journey


The pair stood up in perfect accord. More had been said than was spoken and now they were ready to leave.


Life is a road and I wanna keep going
Love is a river I wanna keep flowing
In the end I wanna be standing
at the beginning with you


Lheora made one final comment as they departed;

“The magic remains, perhaps one day there will be life again on this world.”




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