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"Help me, help me!" cried the grass as it was mercilessly cut down by the mower. Ainsley McDiarmid, however, continued on oblivious to its pitiful cries. The mower sputtered to a stop as it ran out of gas. Ainsley sighed and wiped her forehead.
It was too hot to continue, so grabbing her fishing-pole, she hopped in her car and headed for the river. When she arrived, she ran down to the edge and dived in, regardless that she wasn't in her swimsuit.
She opened her eyes underwater (the water was clear), and a fish darted past her face. She swam after it, but it darted into a small crevasse. Ainsley went up to the surface for air, and glanced around for her fishing-pole.
Not seeing it, she muttered to herself, "That's odd, I must have gone farther downstream then I thought."
She shrugged and walked along the bank. She got a fair distance, but still didn't see her car anywhere. She jumped back in and crossed to the other side, but it wasn't there either. She found a road, and figure that her car must have been farther away. After a while, she realized that she was lost.
"Oh great. I have to turn in my rent today. The landlady's going to kill me."
The sound of galloping hooves attracted her attention. She found herself ringed in by men on horses.
"Ainsley, how can you do that? You can't even notice a bunch of people gathering in a circle around you."
One of them rode forward and adressed her. "What is one so young as you,"
"I'm not so young," Ainsley muttered to herself,
"doing out here," he modestly averted his eyes, "in their...undergarments?" Ainsley looked down at her jeans and T-shirt. "Umm...I was swimming."
Then she noticed that they had odd costumes on. "Are you going to some kind of...costume party?" They gave her odd looks but didn't answer.
"We will take you back to Edoras. Eomer, she'll ride in front of you." The young rider indicated looked disdainfully at her and said something irritable in another language. The captain gave a sharp order in the same language and Eomer sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Don't you want to give me a cloak or something? It must be hard to steer with your eyes modestly averted. We'll probably run into a tree," Ainsley pointed out. One of the men handed her a cloak, which she wrapped around herself. Eomer dismounted and swung her roughly up into the saddle. At a look from the captain, he sighed again and mounted behind her.
Ainsley was jolted forward into the horse's neck as they started, and earned a murderous glare from Eomer when she grabbed the reigns to steady herself. She glared back at him and sat up straight.
"Please move," he gritted out from behind clenched teeth.
"It's kind of hard to move when you're sitting on a horse," Ainsley hissed.
"Well, it's kind of hard to steer when you have to look over somebody's head!"
"It's not my fault I'm tall!"
After a few minutes of arguing, Eomer reigned his horse to a stop. Ainsley all but fell off. Eomer sighed yet again, and reached down to swing her up, this time behind him. "Put your arms around my waist," he ordered.
"Do I have to?" Ainsley asked, thinking to herself "Sheesh, this guy has problems. How many times can you sigh in ten minutes anyway?"
"Yes, you have to," replied Eomer, looking like he wished she didn't. "If you didn't, you would fall off," he added, looking delighted at the prospect.
Ainsley reached around his waist, taking care not to touch him. She linked her pinkies in front.
Eomer rolled his eyes and gave a command. The horse began to gallop. ...
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