Belegond saw now that the woman was nervous. He wondered if he should venture on with the conversation about Rohan. He did, for he was curious.
"Why do you not go there?" there was silence,"We have something in common then!" Belegond smiled but inside he felt stupid. How could he suggest such a thing, surely her reason could be worse, or better. They sat for a long time, no one said anything, it was obvious to Belegond that he had touched something. Maybe she thought that he was another one of those men who thought he was better than her. Thats why she did not want to speak. But he was not.
He took another sip of his ale and waited for a answer.
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"...still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message."
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