Author's Note: This adventure brings the Fellowship of the Ring face-to-face with a character I created for a very different world. I wanted to let her have another story (she has already starred in one, which I will discuss later). Unfortunately, I have not read Tolkien's epic trilogy, so this is based primarily on Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth. Read and review!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the shuttle, its operator and its passenger.
Dusk was falling on the forest when the pale craft descended from the sky. Moving faster than any bird, it swept at a steep angle towards the trees. The vessel landed rather unceremoniously on the ground, and a door in its side quietly slid open.
Stumbling out of the shuttle, the girl in the blue dress glanced warily at her surroundings. They had set her down in a forest clearing. Leaves littered the mossy ground. A small stream, hidden in the undergrowth, babbled nearby. Beyond the trees, the tops of great snow-capped mountains were tinged by the setting sun.
This isn't where I want to be, she thought to herself. The ocean is nowhere in sight.
She turned to complain to the shuttle operator - and found nothing there. The shuttle had vanished. Only the marks of its skids on the forest floor and a thin trail of smoke dissipating in the evening breeze showed that anything had been there at all.
Cursing the ignorance of the young shuttle operator and the notorious silence of modern shuttle engines, the girl sat down to ponder her misfortune. A native of the planet commonly known as Tryllva, she had embarked on a world-hopping starcraft voyage to help overcome a lingering grief. She was rather well-known on her home planet, but her current appearance acted as a disguise of sorts. She had eagerly accepted the offer of a visit to the coastal towns of this world, but instead had been deposited in the middle of a forest, far from the sea. The shuttle would return for her, but not for some time. What was worse, she had no idea where she was - or how the inhabitants of this world would react to her.
I'll be safest as I am, she decided. Pulling her cloak tightly around her, she slipped into a dreamless sleep beneath the darkening sky.
