Pio gasped as she woke and saw the ring of leering Orc faces. She shook her head, driving away the image of a night she and Bird once spent in some dive on the river level of Gondor.
Her heart nearly stopped when she saw Angara had the bag with the laptop. Then she relaxed and smiled. She’d had an entire year to learn about ‘double-encrypted password protection and instruction guided from only designated persons devices’.
No need to fear any real interference from the concerned group who stood looking down at her.
‘My laptop, Angara. Hand it over, if you please . . .’
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Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
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