Pippin and I sat outside on the steps to Ellis Hall.

'This is quite an interesting place,' He said. 'Why couldn´t they build Ellis at the bottom of the hill, instead of partway up?'

'Maybe ´cause there was supposed to be a soccer field behind it?' I said.

'Very true,' Pippin said. 'It just seems strange to have down stairs on either side of the up stairs.'

'I´m not sure I understand that one either. They could just make one staircase to the basement, instead of having two, one on either side of the staircase to the main floor.'

Pippin looked around the campus. 'What´s that?' he asked pointing.

I stood up. 'Looks like someone wearing one of those Matrix coats, like Neo.'

But, both of us knew that was not the case. It was a Ringwraith looking for someone. When the Ringwraith caught sight of Pippin, it made straight for us.

'Great,' I muttered. 'Just because you looked in that stupid palantir crystal ball thingy, these guys think you have the ring. Come on! Let´s go hide.'

We ran up the steps into Ellis Hall. The lobby was way too open, and the dining hall was not open yet, so we ran upstairs, hoping to find some office or closet to hide in. The Ringwraith was close behind us, and we had no time to hide ourselves. We had run up a staircase on one side of the building, and now ran for the other. We led the Ringwraith on a merry chase around the building, through the basement, where the Juniata Student´s mailboxes were, back to the main floor, and up and around again.

When we returned to the main floor the second time, I said to Pippin, 'This way. We´ll duck into the Faculty Lounge, and get through the folding wall into the dining hall. We can get out that way.'

I pulled him down a hallway, and into the Faculty Lounge (which, in reality was not much of a lounge. More like a dining room). To my shock, and horror, the folding wall was gone – replaced by a real wall. There were windows in this wall, but when I looked through them, I realized that the dining hall had totally disappeared. I was now looking out at the soccer field behind Ellis Hall. I turned my back to the wall, preparing myself to fight with my fists if necessary. Pippin and I could sense the Ringwraith outside the door, though it had positioned itself so that we could not see it. We heard the rustle of robes, and realized that two more had come to join the first.

I jumped backwards, flying out the window, miraculously without shattering it. I could see and feel myself flying away backwards, away from Ellis.

No, I thought. I didn´t drag Pippin with me!

I gained control of myself and flew myself back in the window Or towards it rather. As soon as I approached, I started to drift backwards again, away from my target. I forced myself through the window, and hovered near the floor. Two of the Ringwraiths had a hold of Pippin, and were beginning to drag him away. Pippin put up a fight, and they had only managed to get him as far as the door.

'Larissa!' he was yelling. 'Help me!'

I pulled a ruler out of my pocket, and pointed it at one of the Ringwraiths.

'Avada Kedavra!' I yelled.

And miraculously, the Ringwraith was destroyed, its robe drifting slowly to the floor. I swooped down, my stomach only inches from the floor, and I flew towards the other Ringwraith. I grabbed the hem of its robe, and yelled the Avada Kedavra curse again, leaving me with an empty robe in my hands.

I woke up in a sweat. Wait, I thought, Did the third Ringwraith get Pippin? I tried to make myself sleep again, to learn whether Pippin was all right. Sleep came, but I never found out.

That Wednesday, I entertained the rest of the Troubled Waters crew with my dream of Pippin and I. The others, naturally, thought it hilarious that my dreams now combined Harry Potter with Lord of the Rings (for that is where the Avada Kedavra curse comes from – Harry Potter).

'You know, I just had a vision that the Ring is in one of the mailboxes, and the Riders had to open every single one of them to find it,' Carolyn said.

We all laughed. 1600 mailboxes sure is a lot to open.