"Back to the forest fence I think," Radagast observed while taking a sedate look about him. "Aha, you are returned Mattius, Endereth was as good as her word when she said she'd find you in a blink. These woods hold many secrets do they not?" He smiled and nodded at Mattius who pondered inwardly if the wisard knew anything of the events that had just occured in the kingsfoil patch.
Again they clambered over the roots and back to the edge of the prairie-like meadows.
"I wonder why the ground's so uneven," said Calentoliel, unintentionally aloud. Staring across the grass as it waved like a green ocean in the breeze.
"I get the feeling it's probably best not to ask," Endereth replied at her shoulder.
"It's only a field." Calentoliel observed.
"If that were true wouldn't Radagast lead us straight across it to these friends of his and not stumbling along in the scrub and brambles at the forest edge?" Faye pointed out.
Their hushed conversation was ended when Mattius, some way ahead turned and noticed that he, Radagast, Rothalle and her horse were split from the others. "Hey, don't let us become separated now, hurry along. Radagast says we must reach his friends before nightfall!"
The others did as they were bid. There was something in the words 'before nightfall' that prophesised trouble in this peaceful place.
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