A lesson that Legolas would do well to learn from his father. Perhaps it would help him to endure, free from the tower as he now seemed. Maybe even go back to being a little bit like he'd once been.

"Perhaps but I've seen no others bearing a collar. I am alone in being here." After a year, it was actually strange to see people without collars and to not see worker or retrieval units wandering the halls. To not have to report to collar maintenance ever other week. That alone was a bit unnerving, he'd never gone without it and didn't know what might happen without it.

His breathing sped up, hard for others to notice but probably not for Thranduil.