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sorry this is short. I have almost no time. I had it all typed up, then lost it.
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Nyeena watched the orcs as they moved across the crest of the ridge, in plain sight. The pass was filled to the brim with evil, and she knew just what to do.
The moon rose, finally.
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It was but work of a moment to light an old discarded sack, and Nyeena wrinkled her nose at the stench of orcs. Nothing was clean, all was defiled. She scattered fire upwind of the pass, and soon, the strong gusts fanned the flames into a frenzy. Fire ran across the grass quick as a blink, and whole trees crumbled into ash as the red beast touched them. Sixty orcs died from the fire, and behind the sheet of flames came something fiercer, a mounted elf that carried death in her hands. Arrows sped into the darkness, and ninety-three of the orcs died then. And her arrows did not run out -- something that would astound the ignorant if they overlooked her beginnings. Gritting her teeth, she loosed another instrument of death and fled through the pass, pursued by none.
The fire raged behind her and she reached the trees in safety, looking back only once to see the horizon tinged blood-red underneath the rising sun. Relentless, she plunged onwards into the tangled, dangerous Mirkwood.
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Some say that Mirkwood is good, home of the green elves. Some say it is evil, stalked by unknowns. Both may be correct, but the darkness had not been reached in many places by the healers. A sob rose in the elf-maid's throat, and she fled onwards, turf flying underneath Silme's hooves as they raced onwards. On, ever on. Like bony fingers, the treelimbs reached to grasp her, pull her down. And that unknown evil hounded her always. She glimpsed eyes more than once, and something shrouded in mist had glided in and out of vision quickly. Fog slowed her flight, and mud squelched underfoot as they crossed a stagnant stream. Mist rose in tendrils from the tepid water, and she gazed apprehensively around her. At a walk, they kept on, ducking under twisted, gnarled treelimbs. The monoliths themselves crowded towards the rider, as if to drain her. Vines entangled, fog covered everything in an eerie, thick blanket of white. Sounds were muffled. Something hissed nearby, and Silme jerked away as something scurried under them.
Finally, they crossed a clearer, swifter stream and left some of the darkness behind. Nyeena shuddered and quickened Silme's pace. She didn't even need to urge. Silme was off like a shot, and stopped only hours later, her sides quivering and covered in sweat. There was some foam at the corners of her mouth. Nyeena dismounted and led on, pushing through briars. Her cloak made it impossible to spot her, and Silme blended with the fog under the stars. Finally, they reached a clearing, and there they could go no further. They were surrounded.
"Who's there?" Nyeena called, her sword drawn as she searched the trees in vain.
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