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Elladan barely slept that night but lay gazing up at the inumerable stars that set the night afire. They blazed like glittering gems on a sea of shapeless shadow. As he lay his mind wandered accross many plains, forests and mountain ranges and at last to the sea. He could her the waves rolling repeatedly onto the shore and the distant cry of gulls over the ocean waves. Elladan could taste the salt in the air that blew in his face. He stood there motionless listening to the breaking waves and the whisper of the wind.
"Long you will yet live in our hearts and ever on in our dreams, Newethion and Anga" He spoke into the wind. The wind rose then fell as if that his thought had been acknowledged.
Slowly the vision faded and the air felt cool and the soft sound of the waves was replaced with a rippling of leaves of the forest behind. It was still dark but by his reckoning it was near dawn. Elladan glanced around, he could tell that it was not only the watchman that was awake at that time. He got up and walked around the camp, he knew he was not going to get anymore sleep.
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