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Old 01-27-2006, 06:37 PM   #32
Nerindel
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1420!

Entering the old Common room Æðelhild nervously looked around. All the tables bar one had been pushed against the far wall, ready for the work needing done to turn the ample common room into a mead hall fit for the new Eorl of Middle Emnet. Lord Eodwine stood with a tall, broad shouldered man to his right shoulder as he addressed a rather anxious looking young girl and even as Æðelhild crossed the room to the table the young lass with a broad smile fixed in place passed behind her toward the kitchens.

The table itself was occupied by a thin lad who’s boyish features made him look no older than his fourteenth year, but to Æðelhild who knew that first appearances could be deceiving it meant nothing, For she herself looked no older than fifteen when infact she was well into her seventeenth year and fast approaching womanhood. Sitting next to the young lad was a slightly taller man with thick blonde rather dusty hair, in fact most of him was covered in dust, telling young Æðelhild that he must have travelled someway to get here.

So many new faces! she thought as she silently sat across from the young lad, her rich dark eyes surreptitiously taking in the shield and spear strapped to the other, the dusty man’s back… A guard perhaps or a warrior? She mused, again feeling the uneasiness of her past attempting to creep up on her. But defiantly and taking a bite of bread she swallowed both down.

Three days had passed and no-one saw her as anything but a hired hand, obviously news from Gondor either travelled very slowly or was long forgotten, after all a year had been and gone since that awful night and as far as she could tell no one was looking for her. Which was just as well for she had no intentions of returning, not now that everything and everyone that she had ever loved was gone.

She was awakened from her thoughts as Gurdyn again appeared and sat herself silently beside her, the two men where exchanging histories and she listened quietly as she ate, quite content for the moment to go unnoticed.

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