Writewraiths in Middle Earth

[Lubyla]

'Are you ready to go back to the group?'

I wiped the last tear away, and lightened the rainfall to the point of a cmforting shower, light and seemed to take all the cares away. "I suppose." I began to walk back, silently, to Faith, my cloak blowing in the breeze.

[Fred Baggins]

As the other two began walking back, though I didn't know they where coming, I wondered if anyone would understand. I found myself thinking aloud.

"No one will understand you truely I suppese Bud. No one will ever understand the way your supposed to be. Two minds, one brain. Two different personalitys, two different thoughts, two different...you. Buddy, and Danger, Mauluk and Snakesnout."

"You designed me as a monster."

"No, not a monster, as a rivel, a true rivel for me. I designed you to be my best friend, and my worst enemy. You are not one person, but two. And no one will understand that Mauluk, who counciled Calien, CAN be trusted, and Buddy, the only one who will ever really know my heart, CAN be trusted, and that Snakesnout, who betrayed his sister, and Danger, who may perhaps someday betray me, cannot be trusted."


"But Countess, I would never betray you, nor would Danger. We can't, you know that."

"I don't know I think He still can, through words. He's powerful Bud, he's wise, and powerful, just as you are."

"Then I am sorry countess. You know I would stop him if I could."

"Yea. I know."

[Lubyla]

AS I walked back, I caught the last part of what they had said. I bowed my head. "Sorry I left. I'm back though, and Illali was with me."

[Fred Baggins]

ic: I wirled around. "Ho-how much of that did you hear?" I was afriad that she might have heard about me calling him my rival. If she had, then nothing will ever be the same.

ooc: Just to let you know, Faith's going to start seeing things that are there, but for some reason she's the only one that can see it. I will let you kow when this happens.

[Lubyla]

"Only the last bit, for the wind carries."I started to hum, something I did when I was worried, or sad, I hummed the song I had sung to the wind, thinking no one had heard.

[Fred Baggins]

"O, Star, I'm sorry it's just I tend to ramble sometimes, and well, I just say things that well...sometimes don't make sence." I hung my eyes low, I hated to lei, to the only other person who knew my heart, but I so feared that she would read about Danger. I listened to the song she hummed. "That song's nice. Like it."

[Lubyla]

"I have always loved it, it's a very pretty song, it comforts me." I looked down. I was true. it did comfort me, and comfort was what I needed.

[Fred Baggins]

I nodded, and picked up my staff...well not really picked it up, considering it had been floating the whole time, so i really kinda grabbed it. Then Kathie came in. She looked worried, but, trying to get back to my normal crazy self I ignored it.

"Yippie! Now all my best friends are here! Kathie, I know she already said so, but this is the REAL Starlight. She's from New Zeland origanly, and she's the only one to get your horses from, cause she breeds the best! Yep yep, she sure does! I don't do anything the best...nope, I don't, well, unless you count, just ebing me!"

[Lubyla]

"You do things the best, composing music...You know, that kinda stuff." I sat down. I never could stand for very long.

[Fred Baggins]

"Yea...sure...ok what ever. You can pretend I can actually compose, I'll accept the truth that I can't. WHY DO I HAVE TO BE A HOBBIT! Sorry, but I've spent my whole life trying to thin down, and loook at meee!!! I'm FAT! And don't look at me like that Star, I'm a hobbit, i'm fat."

[Lubyla]

"Your not FAT!!!! I get to hit you again!!!!!"

[Fred Baggins]

I slapped my head. "How could you say that. Have you LOOKED at me lately. Anyway shouldn't we like figure out why those ents have just been standing there this whole time?"

[Lubyla]

"O, uh...hehehe, well, your a hobbit, and eat nine meals a day."

"Your right Faith, what ARE the ents doing there?"

[Silverstripe]

Faith shrugged, and then she and Starlight turned to me. "Well, don't ask me, I don't know either! Maybe we should ask them."
Terwell, where are you? I need to talk to you.
At that moment Terwell came running over. Oh, of course! He couldn't tell what I was thinking, at least not when I wasn't using the Link, but he COULD tell when I was upset.


<Hello, Calien. What's wrong?>

Using the Link, I told Terwell of my conversation with Hunter, where he'd been warning me to be careful around Snakesnout and I'd snapped at him, because I wasn't quite sure if I could trust him.

<He is Kin, Terwell! One of my best friends! But I couldn't bring myself to trust him.>

Terwell motioned for me to go on, knowing that wasn't all. So I told him about Freddy's death, and Killer; how Mauluk had assured me that I hadn't been the one to kill the anthro hobbit, and that Faith Lowe had tried to kill me. I finished up with telling him about Stephanie, my/Kathie's sister in Mundane Earth.

I wondered how the REAL Kathie was doing, whether she had gotten used to Mundane Earth again yet. I now remembered what I had thought of that world when I first arrived. It was frightening, yet fascinating. There had been absolutely nothing, not even any stories, to tell me what Mundane Earth was like.

We really shouldn't call it "Mundane Earth," though.

When I first got there, I had thought of the other world as anything but mundane. Odd, yes, in that it had no -- no magic. But what was an airplane, really, or electricty, for that matter? Nothing but EXPLAINABLE magic!

That was the first time I missed "Mundane Earth"; the whole of that place, and not just my family and friends.

But there is Middle Earth to think of.

Yes, Middle Earth, my home. I smiled. It simply felt RIGHT to be here, though I would always miss the people I'd known in Mundane Earth. I was so wrapped up in my thoughts that I nearly missed Terwell's response to my story.


<Ah, this world you call Mundane Earth is a strange and complicated place, Calien,> said Terwell.

Terwell sounded as if he had just read my mind! Of course, he couldn't have actually done so; that's not how the Link works. But, having known each other from birth, 'tis true that Terwell and I often think alike. He is, after all, my shuren.

<I do think Hunter's right, that you have to trust someone, and it shouldn't be Snakesnout.

<I don't trust Snakesnout. And I won't trust Mauluk -- because I know it could not have been Snakesnout, who DID use me, who told me that Killer hadn't murdered Freddy.

<Killer didn't murder anyone. I know, because I was watching.>

<Terwell! You shouldn't do that, Killer would have attacked even you!>

<I'm the only one who CAN do that safely. I don't die unless you do, remember? Anyway you didn't hurt anyone.>

I breathed a sigh of relief. <But Terwell, you should still try to keep safe.> The very notion that I would ever try to hurt my best friend made me sick. <Well, what did I do?>

<You were shouting at a dark creature in the background. Not attacking, I couldn't tell what either of you was saying, but you both sounded VERY angry.>

<You think that was the creature that killed Freddy?>

<Yes. I wish I could remember that conversation!>

Then I knew that if we wanted to know what was said, I'd have to try toremember the conversation myself. This would not be easy or pleasant. I might have said any number of cruel things at that point.

Suddenly I heard a loud noise. I spun around to see Faith and Starlight talking to the ents.

[Fred Baggins]

Kathie...I mean Calien turned away, and I fingered the staff. I noticed something different about it, but I didn't know what. I ran my fingers over the staff, into the groves in it. The gravings...that was it, engravings. They hadn't been there the last time the staff changed. Beautiful engravings, like nothing I had ever seen. They where gorgeous. I looked up at the ents, and found that amazingly, I was not afraid of them.

[Lubyla]

The ents were a bit...large...and scarey...and pwerful...all I could think was, Please dont hurt me!

[Fred Baggins]

I stood up, and looked at them, nodding with a small smile. I looked toward the one who seemed to be leading them. "Hello sir. Do you know what is wrong with our friend? Are you going to help them." The ent looked surprised, and I felt very suprised myself, for I had spoken in Old Entish!

[Lubyla]

I looked at Faith. WHY DIDN'T I HAVE ANY COOL POWERS???????"Um, I think I'll just go sit down now." I tripped over Illali and fell.

[Fred Baggins]

ooc: Zavron! Please post, or we will leave without you! We'll leave you sitting there surrounded by ents, and never care what happened!!!(Sorry, just a little upset, that nothing is happening or has happened for about three days because one person won't post.)

[Fred Baggins]

ooc: Fine Zavron, See ya l8r!

ic: I mounted Wind Rider, and smiled at the rest. "Are we leaveing now?"