Chapter 4
Im alone
Aragorn looked at Gimli in amazement at his stupidity. "Gimli, can you not see she is frightened enough? Put your ax down," Aragorn said while gesturing for the dwarf to lower his weapon. Kathy was now terrified. She had no idea why he would call her a witch. She slowly brought her knees to her chest and began to rock. "She is a witch, I tell you! I have never seen anyone who can carry metal in their mouth!" Aragorn and Legolas turned to look at Kathy. "Lady Kathy, what is this metal Gimli is speaking about?" Aragon asked while sitting back down on the ground in front of her. "Oh this," She said while sticking out her tongue. The three men went silent as they gazed upon the silver barbell she had through her tongue. "That's just my tongue ring." The three men were silent until Legolas finally asked, "Did it not hurt to have a piece of metal rammed through your tongue?" Kathy let a small laugh escape before answering, "Not really. My tongue was sore after I had it done, but not for too long." The three men looked at each other in amazement. They couldn't believe that someone would do this to themselves, voluntarily, no less. Kathy decided to make matters worse by sticking out her tongue and then moving the barbell up and down through the hole.
The three men were astonished. "Your people like doing this to
themselves?" Legolas asked. He was obviously intrigued. "Not
everyone likes it, but there are a lot of people that love to get
piercings, although not everyone has the same thing pierced." Once
more the three men were astonished. "You mean you can do that to
more than your tongue?" Aragorn asked, wide-eyed. Kathy looked at
the three men who were hanging onto her every word. "Yeah, you can
pierce everything, from your ears to your..." Kathy's words
trailed off as she lowered her view. All three men knew exactly what
she was talking about and they all swallowed hard. Kathy let out a
small laugh and then gripped her side. "Ouch," She said while
looking at her bandaged side. The bandage was clean, but she could
see where the blood was starting to soak through.
Aragon sat up.
"It is getting late. Lady Kathy needs to get some sleep. She has
had a long hard day and needs to rest." Kathy looked at Aragorn and
was ready to protest when he added, "We will do our best to answer
any questions you may have tomorrow, but first you must sleep."
Kathy lay back down on the small blanket and looked up at the stars.
She still didn't know anything about this Middle Earth, or how she
had come, although she didn't much care any more. She had nothing
to return home to... She blinked back tears that began to form in her
eyes. She couldn't help but see the reality of Ariel. "She is
gone. She was there one minute and then gone the next. Why did she
have to go through so much pain?" Kathy kept thinking these things
over and over again in her head; the more she thought about them, the
faster the tear fell.
Everyone in the camp could hear Kathy crying
that night, and everyone wanted to go and comfort her, but they each
knew that she was in a lot of pain, and that she was going to need
some time to herself.