I keep envisioning Bella being mildly reprimanded for consorting with an easterling-- but seriously reprimanded for riding with a group of unknown men, and being admonished that she should return to civilisation for her reputation's sake.
Not that she'd buy it in her heart, but I think she would dutifully obey.
Hah-- maybe she changes her mind after the group leaves, and retraces Nimrodel's steps through the White Mountains, and meets up with her and Mithrellas in the paths of the dead....
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...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.
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