Writewraiths in Middle Earth

[Lubyla]

I smiled. "Thanks. I'll repay you when we go back home." Any empty promis I know, but there had to be SOMEway to get there. I sat down next to her, as Illali padded over, carrying a pack on her back.

"Illali! What do you have there?"She dropped the pack at my feet.

'Thought you might like bits of home.'

I opened up the pack. I almost cried at the sight of what was there. I scooped up a large frog stuffed animal, a rather beat up piglet stuffie, Midnight the Panther TY, and two charm braclets. I slipped one on my wrist, hugged Illali, and poked Faith. I held out the other braclet to her.

"I think you left this in Mundane Earth." I smiled, and hugged the stuffed animals. Juviniel, I know, but hey, it was me, never growing up. I then stuffed the three back into the pack, and set it aside.

[Fred Baggins]

I took the bracelet, and fondled it, looking at each charm in turn. The Tinker Bell, the Trebel Cleft, the other note thingy, and the Micky magic hat. I smiled as I remembered the promise we made when we got the bracelets. That we would get charms for them on our birthdays. That was just a couple months ago, when Star visited over christmas, and we went to Disneyland fo her birthday. "Thank you both. I hate it when I forget to put this on!" I put it on, changing the links so it wouldn't fall off. Then I slung my pack on. "We ready to go then?" I had finished breakfast and was more than ready. I did not ask again to ride at the Empresses side. I would prefer riding with me best friend.

[Lubyla]

"I'm ready when everyone else is."

"Has anyone seen Andodulin? I haven't seen him since-- Well, has anyone seen him?"

[Fred Baggins]

I glanced over at Bud, as he burped and a few black feather's floated out of his mouth. If I wasn't sure he hadn't done the obvious, I would have congradulated him, for riding us of the nusince. But I knew it couldn't have been.

"Perhaps he's off somewhere with that cursed horse of his."

[Lubyla]

Her eyes squinted. "He best not be, that would mean trouble for us all. "

"Um...Is he still after me?"

"You are one of the rain makers aren't you?"

"I guess"

[Fred Baggins]

Cursed bird, and his horse. Should have killed them long ago. If I could have. Well, let 'em try, cursed ones, follwers of the Dark One.

[Lubyla]

"We shant have to worry about him yet....I hope."

[Fred Baggins]

Humph. Hope not. I put back on my happy face, after reaching back to make sure the BIC pen was still in my pony tale. "Shall we be off then? If we hurry, we may be able to make it to the castle by nightfall."

[Silverstripe]

As I rode with the others, I tried to talk with them, which was difficult as I was in the lead and there was no one riding beside me. I saw that Faith was ignoring me completely. I was pretty sure I knew why.

She knew I wasn't Kathie. No, Kathie was back in Mundane Earth, and didn't even remember Middle Earth. Faith blamed me for Kathie not being there. This didn't trouble me as it would have once. I had Terwell here, after all. And later I could find those of my friends who were not here.

I just wished I could do something for Faith. She seemed so lonely and depressed; sad, angry, and a bit afraid. It was easy to see why she would be angry at me, Lubyla, and perhaps all of Middle Earth! She wasn't supposed to be here, but she could never go home. Anger, sadness, and fear weren't good for her, though, or for anyone, I reminded myself.

I was still furious with Snakesnout for his betrayal, and it was possible I always would be. But Mauluk's unexpected kindness had shown me that there was some good in him yet, and I would remember that too.

[Lubyla]

Lubyla rode up to Calien. She looked at the sky as one last star shone, and then died. "Keep on your best lookout, times are changing, just as the wind." Worry was apon her face, which was a rare sight on Lubyla.

[Fred Baggins]

ooc: Faith's not ignoring you. She wan'ts to be your advisor, she just understands that that won't be possible for awhile. Sorry, but Faith wouldn't ignore you, you ARE still her empress, and soo she will suspect that there is some of her best friend locked in there somewhere. It all goes along with my evil plan!

ic:The wind blew around me, I could feel the messages it carried. Some where for me, or others in the companie and others where for other people in Middle-Earth. Actually there was only one for me. I was one of the few who knew what the wind said, though I never made it public. It would only be more reason to send me to the shrink. I wondered if there was a Shrink here, as I felt the message.

You feel of Death, like the Empress feels of Life.

I shuddered. I had felt, brefly, the life that the Empress was surrounded in. It was thick, like flies on food. If I was surrounded with death like that...

But how? Surely the wind didn't lie, did it.

~Star. Did you hear the message. The message the wind gave me? You feel of Death, like the Empress feels of Life. Do you think it tells the truth. How could I feel like death?~

[Fred Baggins]

"You feel of Death, like the Empress feels of Life"

It rang through my head, with another voice. Not the voice of the wind. In fact it was a voice that sounded so familar, though I couldn't place it.

"Perhaps the name Doncamiel, Wizard of the West, means nothing now, but there will be a day when even you will fear the name."

Why this rang through my head, I do not know, nor do I remember hearing it. But it had something to do with the Wind's message. ~Star?~

[Lubyla]

~The wind tells niether lie nor truth, only what it sees. I heard it not, I heard nothing this time, yet anyway.~

It was odd too, that I hadn't heard it, but, o well, Then it came again, the wind, this time only to me.

Upon a horse of coal and dread, is the elf thought to be dead, he seeks the stars, he seeks the rain, he seeks the empress, and the blue.

I shuddered. I knew almost all it spoke of. I looked to the skys, and placed my hand in my pocket and pulled out a pendant that I had found in the grass with Faith at home.

[Fred Baggins]

I looked over at Star, as she pulled the pendant out, and shuddered remembering the day she found it. They day the dark one started following her, and I had seen the old man in the castle. The day I became a...

But I hadn't, not then. Not yet. I just recieved the powers. Not even now was a a full blooded...

"Perhaps the name Doncamiel, Wizard of the West, means nothing now, but there will be a day when even you will fear the name."

"...Doncamiel, Wizard of the West..."

"...even you will fear the name..."

"O my..." The connection made itself in my head. I was Doncamiel, and...

"I threatened to kill Andodulin..."

[Lubyla]

I never wore the pendant, never ever, only had it in my pocket, dont know why, I just...did. It didn't feel right to wear it, like it wasn't really mine.The crystals sparkled in the sunshine, so did the whole thing. Mithril is what it looked like, Though I cant really describe it, besides it looked elvish.

"Are you ok Faith? You dont look too good, almost like...you were thinking."

[Fred Baggins]

I smacked Star on her head, but not so that it hurt. "Yea, I might hurt myself to much thinking!" Then I dismissed the subject, like it never happened. My dreams again, no doubt. I would never threaten Andodulin, ever.

[Lubyla]

I went into a feeble position on my horse(I'm that talented) "I'm in my happy place...I'm in my happy place..."

'What happy place?'

"The past."

[Fred Baggins]

"Heh, I'm sorry Star." *Her hand drifts to her sword, Glamdring, grasping the hilt. Her mind drifted into writewraith world* (Because the person typing her has a writers block!)

[Lubyla]

"It's ok."I lowered my legs, and rode normally. My eyes went to the ground.

[Fred Baggins]

I smiled suddenly, remembering something before any of this happened. If only just before.

Kathie and I were in computer class together, laughing and chatting about our favorite characters in stories we had written, Belladona and Primrose. We got odd looks from the rest of the class, the non-Writewraiths, but neither of us really cared. Then the computer teacher, Ms. Brant, walked over to us.

"Welsh! Lowe! Be QUIET! Do I have to separate you two?"

We got quiet, but I looked at Kathie and grinned, showing that the fun wasn't over.

"Today, we will learn how to use the internet," droned Ms. Brant. I sighed -- I'd been surfing the net for years, and we'd had these lessons at school three times already!

I rolled her eyes and scribbled something down, showing it to Kathie. She giggled, then quickly clamped a hand over her mouth.


I smiled, as the memory came back to me like yesterday. Things would never be the same, even if we all went back home to stay. Never, ever.

Putting it all back into my memorie, I pushed my horse ahead. "Permission to ride at your side Empress?" She granted it, and I fell in step with her, at her left side. "My lady, I fear what may heppen. I may not be able to stay in your companie, for long once we get to your palace. I will come back after a bit, but in order for peace to remain in your palace, it would be wise for me to leave. To leave your land, M'lady."