The Downie Awards Show

[Amanaduial the archer]

Aman ran down the other corridor. She had come to apparently the wrong door, and came into the corridor at the other side of the room just as Cami was waking up Mithadan. She stood breathlessly in the doorway.

Mithadan, you have to get up. I don't think she'll make her move until the awards are over. Please go get the show on the road. But, whatever you do, be careful. I think she has something up her sleeve."

Aman heard Cami desperately speaking to Mithadan, before she shoved him through the door. Aman looked from the still dazed and more than half asleep Mithadan to the panicky hobbit.

"Cami...Cami, what is....where is....why are...huh?" She finished, rather lamely. The little hobbit looked at her, her eyes full of anxiety and worry.

"I dont know, Aman. Its something to do with Pio, she got some cruise tickets for herself, Bethberry and I, but...well, I dont think she meant to go! I think....I think she may have been trying to get us out of the way." Cami finished.

Aman stared at her. "Trying to get you out of the way? But...why?"

"Hey, you're full of questions Aman, and I can't give you any of the answers."

Amans mouth suddenly tightened as an idea formed itself in steel in her mind. "Well, there's only really one person we can ask, isnt there? Mithadan, come on, we need to get you out there. And then Pio has got some explaining to do here..."

Aman took one arm and Cami took the other and together, they tried to steer the still unsteady Mithadan back to the stage...