The Ranger's Apprentice
Morgarth's Revenge: A new beginning
Prologue
A little pink hand reached out of a bundle of blankets and tugged on the man's scraggly beard. He gently slipped the hand out of the roughly cut hairs and carefully placed the bundle on the stone step. His vision blurred and he tried to blink away the tears as he placed an envelope under the little girl's arms but one slid down his face and dropped with a soft thup the liquid spreading into a small dark area before stopping. He shook his head and turned around and sprinted off before his daughter could see the tears flowing freely as he disappeared into the night. Soon her wailing woke Baron Arald and he stepped out and saw the little bundle on the step and said "you did the right thing my friend. It's hard I know but it will do her good" before he bent down and carefully lifted the bundle and went back inside.
Chapter 1 The bullies are Pigs?
Sybell sat at the table pushing her food miserably around her plate not touching anything. She was the only girl this age and so was surrounded by boys, most of whom teased and bullied her. There was five of them and only one of them was nice to her. Harry, Peter, Alan were the ones who tormented her. Sam was the one who tried to discourage them and stop them from hurting her. Sam looked over at her and said gently "eat something it's going to be a big day tomorrow with the choosing and everything." Sybell nodded numbly and speared a piece of ham with her fork and popped it into her mouth. She chewed slowly savoring the flavors. No one thought it was unusual that she wasn't speaking she never really did. She looked up and said suddenly "Pigs". Harry, Alan, and Peter stopped shoveling bigger and bigger mouthfuls of ham into their mouths and stared at her their mouths hanging open and little pieces of ham hanging from their mouths. Peter, who straight forward bullied her swallowed and said "So little zipper mouth unzipped the apparently useless thing?" in his annoying voice. Harry turned to him and conked him on the head making Peter fall of his chair. "Owwwww what was that for?" Peter asked miffed. "Don't be so mean" Harry replied elbowing Peter. "Stop guys" said Sam "It's not doing any one any good. It's time to go to bed anyways" he added looking sternly at them all but not so much at Sybell. He knew she obeyed most of the time. They all got up and slowly made their ways to their rooms. As the only girl she had her own room. Sometimes she enjoyed it but most of the time she felt lonely.