----Chapter 3 finally. Sorry it took so long, and those of you who reviewed, thanks! I don't get a lot of time, plus I've been a little sick recently. Oh, and I spilled water on my keyboard, now only my left and up arrows work; the down and right seem to be linked... And I've had homework. Enough excuses. To address a reviewer: The reason I made Lurtz's special bounty Borimir is because he has a lineage leading from the stewards of Gondor; he's the son of the current steward. Aragorn's higher lineage is hidden, even to Sauron himself (remember in the third book when Aragorn revealed himself to the Eye via the seeing-stone? That's what I'm pulling from.) Anyway, I figured if Sauron didn't know, and Saruman didn't, a little uruk-hai captain wouldn't either. Thanks for paying attention to these details! Oh yeah, can anyone tell me how to do italics? I may probably use them to show action, and that would be essential for the next chapter.----
Slave to the White Hand
-----Chapter 3: Growing doubt festers-----
Tonight we rest here! I will call a halt. We will arrive at Amon Hen tomorrow afternoon…
Doubt continues to grow in my mind…Perhaps the White Hand is not all powerful…Surely out here he cannot perceive what I think? Hah! Then I will be blasphemous…I KNOW that the White Hand has a master, though he does not reveal himself…I can feel him calling me…forever beckoning me to the West…and…an eye…
But I cannot serve it yet…I feel it commanding me to continue serving the White Hand, but not to be consumed by it…I must obey this new entity, for I sense a greater power in it, and greater pain if I do it a disservice.
But, what am I doing? Why must I hunt down and…protect these halflings? My entire company will want to rip them apart for they are not as wise as me. Why must I risk my neck to save those puny things?
A memory of pain rises in my mind…I can feel it again, the infinite burning in me, as the pain spread about me and threw me to the floor…that is why I continue, because I seek this new master, and because I have yet to overcome my fear of the White Hand. But the Eye…the Eye will deliver me…
~There. I know it's short. This is more of an introduction chapter into the next one. If ANYBODY can tell me how to do italics, I'll get to work on my next chapter all the more quickly. Review! Thanks!~