I have a little bit more time. Allow me to write another chapter for you befoe I begin my trip to North Carolina. I am glad I got that last chapter up. I was having a writer's block and didn't think that I would be posting for a longer time. I hope the last chapter wasn't too confusing. Gandalf sent the horses off so that the asassins would follow them instead of the actual companions. Eowyn is doubting every one like the childish wretch she is. Does that explain anything?

I feel bad... I don't have any reviews to thank people for yet. What fun is that?

Oh you guys are going to kill me for the Amaden thing happening here in the Dark Forbidden. You will want to slap me, but I must ask that you desist.

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Now I didn't know what my companions were actually thinking but me, I thought that the Dark Forbidden doesn't sound like such a pleasant 'sanctuary'. I wondered what the Dark Forbidden was. But even more than that I wondered when I would become informed on what the Mordor we were actually doing! Maybe I should have been a bit more patient with my captors but I didn't trust any of them. Faramir was the closest companion to me in the group but he has been known to play quite a few evil pranks on me. Maybe he might think this all a joke and be going abit too far with it. I don't want to become too close to any of them. They are all dangerous. All three of them. Madmen. Not good for my health.

We hadn't traveled too far before we came to a halt at Amaden's command. It seemed that he was the leader of this circus. I won't be his clown or his stooge. There was nothing notable about the location to denote it's importance. "So this is the entrance to the hall of Dark Forbidden, is it Amaden?"

"Silence," Mithrandir whispered pulling me close to his tall form in the dimming light. "We do not want to draw attention to ourselves in this place."

"I see nothing." I stated firmly.... and loudly.

"As well you shouldn't, daughter of the Rohan, I now suggest that you stop your childish stupidity before-"

"Before what?" I snapped at him.

"Before I make you, child." Amaden said in a clearly malicious tone that I didn't like at all. I remembered the ugly looking dagger and shut my mouth abruptly, scowling.

Amaden turned to a boulder and bent down to it. He shoved it and it wouldn't even rock. "I should have known,"He muttered. "nicemphafawane." Green light shot out of his fingers for five seconds and he winced a little. "Nocioveleeinor". Lights sparkled and flickered in the giant stone. They faded suddenly and the rock crumbled to reveal steps underneath where it had been.

"They cursed it?" Gandalf asked.

"Yeah, did you see it try and burn my hands? It was so intense that I actually felt it before my defense mechanism kicked on." He turned and gestured to me. "Welcome to the hall of my distant kin." He laughed hardily at the phrase 'distant kin'. I had absolutley no idea why and I was too irritated to ask. "I should tell you their story some time. I think you might enjoy it." He laughed again, "Let us go inside before the portal recloses."

"Portal? What is a portal?" I asked and Faramir also looked rather confused. I was pleased to see that I wasn't the only one who was at least a little left in the dark about this entire thing.

"I will explain it once we are inside. Hurry now." Amaden ushered us all down the winding dark steps.

Our boots clicked on the strangely metallic sounding flooring. Who has ever heard of a metal floor? How would they make one? Who are 'they' exactly? Questions danced about in my mind during the five minute trip directly down into the deep of the earth. It was chilly down there. The air had an almost stale taste to it. A large thud echoed from where we had entered.

I grabbed for the sword I had gotten from Faramir, "They followed us after all our precautions?! How did they do that?"

Amaden turned to me and smiled darkly at my evident fear, "Do not worry my lady Malady. It is just the portal boulder being replaced. He turned and walked to the center of the dim room and pressed a small cylinder down so that it disappeared into the plateform it sat on. The room was instantly illuminated with a bright light and Mithrandir turned the head peice of his staff to make it stop glowing.

I couldn't believe anything that I was seeing. There was a sun under ground in the very room I stood in! Inside the clearly translucent platform sat a glowing sphere of light. I cannot believe there is another sun! What a find this is! If only Eomer could see it! It is true magic!

Amaden turned back to me, "Don't be stupid girl, It is an alterate power source lighting up the light globe which is in no way a star."

"I didn't say star! I said sun! I didn't even say it! Quit reading my thoughts!" I shouted heatedly.

"Oh nevermind. I might explain it later when I have more patience." Mithrandir looked at Amaden sternly. "Okay. There are quite a few things that need to be explained but I doubt you will ever believe them. Now is not the time. I don't know about the rest of you but I am hungry and tired."

"I already napped, thank you very much." I said rubbing the place on my head where he had hit me. If I am not careful I am gonna get brain damage. "And what about the hunters following us. We can't just stop and let them catch us can we?

Amaden shook his head, "I already told you! The portal boulder is in place. It fell out of the tree. Yes Tree. "He said to our many weird looks. "My friends have a very eccentric sense of humor. When the boulder is in place the portal forms around it and it cannot move unless you will it to. The language you thought you heard me speak was just nonsensical babble that I used to help me concentrate on the interworkings of the boulder. I answered two riddles that only some one of my sort would comprehend. The first I answered wrong and it burned me. The second...." He paused and closed his eyes as if in pain, "Was right."

I stared at him, "You are a giant mystery and I think that some explantion is going to be needed. But first, "I smiled trying to remove the look of trouble from his face, "I think that we should be cooking you something.".

"You know, that almost sounded pleasant and decent of you." Amaden smirked darkly.

"I didn't say that I was going to cook." I said. "That I will leave to Faramir."