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Time: Clues Are Left



The orcs made them run fast. Run hard. Holly was nearly dead, or so the hobbits thought. She was merely biding her time. It wasn't the first time she was a prisoner of war, but the arrow wound on her stomach was almost unbearable. All well, being tickled was still the worst pain in the world, right?

An orc punch hard in the ribs. She was slowing down. Pippin and Merry, who were being carried, cried out her name. She coughed and held her side, groaning.

"Maybe not," she told herself. An orc flashed his wicked grin and bent sword at the woman, and Holly decided it would be a good idea to pick up the pace. They had been running for nearly two days. The orcs had carried her the first day and a half, but when she started fidgeting, they threw her down and told her to run.

An idea popped into her head when Pippin was thrown down beside her. The clasp on his cloak…

"Pippin, run into the woods over there and throw your little leafy thingy on the ground. Got it?" she whispered in his ear. Pippin looked at her with terror.

"Are you mad?!"

"They won't kill you, trust me. They aren't allowed to. Now, I'll push this big, fat, lug over and you run that way, okay?" she told him in a voice that said if Pippin didn't do it on his own, she would make him do it anyway. He gulped and nodded. Holly smiled and pulled the clasp away from his neck and handed it to him.

"Ready?" she asked, getting into a position to body slam the guy next to her.

"No."

"Too bad. NNIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" she screamed and knocked the orc beside her over. Pippin leaped over them and ran blindly into the woods. He dropped the clasp in the grass beside the path right before he was picked up again by an orc. He was punched in the back by another and knocked out. Holly was slapped hard in the face and told never to try something like that again.

"You understand me, bitch?!" yelled an orc overseer. Holly nodded and kept running. They definitely weren't going to give her a free ride now.