[Novnarwen]

Sador was more than willing to help his wife Pelien with this special luncheon. The two of them had talked, and agreed that none of them were mad at ecah other, Sador was also fully aware why Pelien had 'attacked' Finduilas. Pelien's intentions were good and that was enough for him.

"The ladies have arrived, I can hear them" Pelien told her husband, "So, I'll have to go down and greet them," she added. Sador nodded. "I hope everything will work out fine," he assured her. Pelien squeezed Sador's hand before saying that she thought it would go well, only that she was a bit nervous about the whole idea of guards running about in her house playing.. Pleien didn't get herself to finish before she rushed towards the door. "The guards will also come soon," she added before she walked out of the room. Sador could her her rush down the stairs.

Sador went down the stairs, now wandering in the foyar going in circles. From the parlour he heard thin women voices talking quietly. Ah well, Sador thought. This will be an exciting luncheon, and who knows maybe something unforseen will happen. He shuddered, it was far too unrealistic to be true. A traitor, among them? Rummel opened the door at the same time, the 12 guards and Adduran had arrived.

"Greetings, Adduran." The young man greeted Sador and took his hand firmly. The 12 guards followed doing the exact same thing. Sador smiled.

"Lets get down to business," he said in a calm but eager voice. "Now, come with me." Sador lead them to the cloak room. "As you may see,"Ssador looked at each of the guards. "This is the cloak room, it's the most important place of all today," he announced seeing the seriousness in the guards' eyes. "You two." He pointed at two guards. They were small but strong, exactly what Sador was looking for to have in a small closet.

"I suggest that you two would like the honour of having the best place of all." The two of them looked at each other and nodded. "Very well then, the closet will be your hiding place," he said looking at them and thereafter the closet which stood in a corner.

"In there?" one of them burst out.

"Yes, if you don't mind of course," Sador replied strictly looking at the now tense and nervous guard. The other, pretended as nothing. "I do suggest that you try it out before you're actually going to sit there in perhaps a couple of hours."

None of them said a word, the other ten guards however, had a pleasant time, watching their companiens being afraid to sit in a closet. Sador opened the narrow doors so everyone could see in.

"Nice space, eh?" Sador said, trying to be funny. None of the guards laughed though. "Now come on, what are you waiting for. We don't have that much time. We are already late," he said pushing them in.

Sador smiled, he was happy with the result. "If you need anything then.." Sador had't really thought about that. "Okay, lets just say that I hope you have eaten, and...because you won't be able to do that for the next couple of hours, unless something extremeley odd happens. Anyway try not to cough or sneeze, well don't try, just don't sneeze nor cough. Okay?" He didn't wait for reply before he locked the doors and led the other guards to the next room.

After about 15 more minutes all the guards were placed around in the house and in the garden and all were ready to 'attack' when the signal was given. "Adduran, thank you for coming," Sador said at last after giving the final instructions. Adduran smiled, "The plaseure is on my side." Sador patted the young man at his shoulder:

"Why don't we join the ladies, then?" he asked. Adduran followed.

[ September 21, 2003: Message edited by: Novnarwen ]