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Old 07-03-2006, 09:47 AM   #23
Firefoot
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Johari

They were moving on. Finally. For Johari, the weeks in the caves had passed slowly and uselessly. It had quickly become clear to her that Kalin was not among these ex-slaves, nor had he ever been among them, as a little questioning had revealed. For a while she had held out that he might have somehow heard of the large group of them living in these caves, and finally her thoughts had turned to those coming in from Gondor. Perhaps Kalin had made it so far away from the plantation as to arrive in that strange land – but this possibility seemed unlikely at best. Those Gondorians probably weren’t even coming. Why would they care about slaves in a forsaken land?

Johari did not know why she had continued to stay in the caves, when it had become clear that Kalin was not and would not come. She half-doubted that they even would have let her leave. That did not matter anymore, however, since they were moving now. Perhaps, if she was lucky, they were even moving in Kalin’s direction.

Her thoughts turned slowly back to the present situation. Looking over the large group of people, she could not help but notice that even after two months spent together, the large group was still roughly divided: the slaves more newly escaped, and those that had found them. Those fifteen… they weren’t exactly outright cold, but they did keep to themselves and didn’t exactly encourage conversation.

She glanced over at the young man she found herself walking beside – Hadith, she thought his name was. “Rather insular bunch, aren’t they?” she commented, indicating the two walking closest to them as an example. “I’d like to know what makes them so much tougher than the rest of us.”

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