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Calenedheliel · 12-07-2002, 11:09 PM

Daisy was taking her turn at standing watch and it was snowing again. It was very cold and lonely outside the makeshift camp. She couldn’t stop thinking about the attack this afternoon. What had happened had frightened her senseless for a while, but mostly it made her feel useless. She tried to help fight the dogs with her slingshot but it didn’t seem to help at all. The dogs just kept attacking Emerald, Daffodyl, Robin, and Gaddy. It was the bloodiest and most violent thing she had every seen. When it was finally over, many of the hobbits were hurt and all of the dogs were dead. Knowing that they were dead didn’t make Daisy feel and safer or less scared. She hadn’t even noticed that Bullroarer was missing until Hal brought him into camp. He was hurt pretty badly but it looked like he would be okay.

She got up from her post and went inside to warm up for a few minutes. She noticed Branda looking at Emerald very intently. The tears in his eyes told the whole story. Emerald was gone. Not knowing what to do Daisy went back outside to continue her watch. She looked out at the black moonless night with tears running down her face feeling guilty for not being able to do more during the attack. She thought about how it could have been any of them or all of them if there had been enough dogs attacking, which made her shudder with fear. “How would the rest of the hobbits take the news of Emerald’s passing?” she thought. It was going to devastate everyone.

She was tired but wasn’t sure that she would be able to sleep because she couldn’t keep the images of the attack out of her mind. She decided when it was time she would go in and lay down next to Gaddy. She hoped that he could forgive her for not being able to help him earlier. She almost lost him before she really gotten to know him better. She thought she was going to die when she saw him being attacked. He was here now and safe and if she had her way she would find a better way to help in the protection of the group. It would mean fashioning some new type of weapon and she would talk to Bullroarer about it as soon as he was well enough.

12-07-2002, 11:09 PM	#90
Calenedheliel Animated Skeleton Join Date: May 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 34	Daisy was taking her turn at standing watch and it was snowing again. It was very cold and lonely outside the makeshift camp. She couldn’t stop thinking about the attack this afternoon. What had happened had frightened her senseless for a while, but mostly it made her feel useless. She tried to help fight the dogs with her slingshot but it didn’t seem to help at all. The dogs just kept attacking Emerald, Daffodyl, Robin, and Gaddy. It was the bloodiest and most violent thing she had every seen. When it was finally over, many of the hobbits were hurt and all of the dogs were dead. Knowing that they were dead didn’t make Daisy feel and safer or less scared. She hadn’t even noticed that Bullroarer was missing until Hal brought him into camp. He was hurt pretty badly but it looked like he would be okay. She got up from her post and went inside to warm up for a few minutes. She noticed Branda looking at Emerald very intently. The tears in his eyes told the whole story. Emerald was gone. Not knowing what to do Daisy went back outside to continue her watch. She looked out at the black moonless night with tears running down her face feeling guilty for not being able to do more during the attack. She thought about how it could have been any of them or all of them if there had been enough dogs attacking, which made her shudder with fear. “How would the rest of the hobbits take the news of Emerald’s passing?” she thought. It was going to devastate everyone. She was tired but wasn’t sure that she would be able to sleep because she couldn’t keep the images of the attack out of her mind. She decided when it was time she would go in and lay down next to Gaddy. She hoped that he could forgive her for not being able to help him earlier. She almost lost him before she really gotten to know him better. She thought she was going to die when she saw him being attacked. He was here now and safe and if she had her way she would find a better way to help in the protection of the group. It would mean fashioning some new type of weapon and she would talk to Bullroarer about it as soon as he was well enough.