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5.Bree And Out

"C'mon, this is gonna be a long night" he pulled her, and they all followed Sam to a room were they would find Frodo and some answers.

Rika was pulled, but then she followed alone Sam. He was running along with Pippin and Zeke. Sam stopped and picked a chair, and Pippin copied him. Zeke just looked at them and Rika decided not to get in the way.

They encountered with the stranger that had been looking at Frodo. Sam got defensive and Pippin, again, copied. Then there began a discussion if to trust him or not. Zeke knew everything and just sat and started to think of another thing. Rika was very interested in their fight. She heard the stranger being called Strider and that he knew of Frodo and Gandalf. The last one she didn't remember hearing ever.

And so on went the explanations, it was all too much for her. She could call this her wildest dream when she woke up. The names, the situation, everything was thrilling her. She didn't believe much of that, but she was still fascinated of how could she have gotten there, and why. All the hobbits decided to trust the so called "Strider". T The talk had become a lullaby, it was making her forget and think. She only needed a small breeze from outside.

Rika: 'Outside…hmm… what is…? SHIT! MERRY!'

At that moment Merry entered with Nob. Both where panting, and Nob closed the door, right after he entered. Everyone watched alarmed:

"I've seen them Mr. Frodo! I've seen them! The Black Riders!" Merry exclaimed.

Zeke: 'Damn! This didn't happen in the movie!'

"The Black Riders!" Frodo yelled "Where?"

Merry started his story, but stopped at the site of Strider.

"Continue" Frodo said "He is to be trusted"

Merry told everyone how he first felt a strange wind, 'till he fainted. Then Nob said how he found and helped him. Strider assured they where safe.

Finally, they didn't go back to their rooms, but to another one, he seemed to have prepared. The hobbits, and Rika, slept in beds. Zeke sat and fell asleep in a chair. Strider just watched them fall into slumber.

The cry was heard later that night. Frodo woke up, feeling it was piercing his insides. Rika silently woke up too. She heard that a hobbit was talking to the stranger. She didn't trust him at all. She was listening of the Black Riders, and for the way he talked about them, they were the bad guys. But she still tried not to believe, but everything was just too real, and she couldn't do anything; and fell asleep, again.

"Its too early!" Zeke groaned when he felt being moved fiercely.

"C'mon" Rika kept pushing him "They will leave, and I do not want to stay and see the Black Riders! Wake up!"

"Alright! Stop it" and he got up

"Coward" he muttered