Unexpected Guests
I opened my eyes and looked around me. Wait…I was….back in Rohan? I sat up so fast that my vision blurred, and I got a sudden, but vicious headache. Rubbing my forehead, I swung my legs over the side of the bed and gently let myself down onto the cold floor. It was an icy cold, and it took effort on my part to keep from taking my feet back off the floor the instant that they touched its surface.
"Damn." I muttered as I stood on the floor and noticed a giant scar on my right arm. It was the oddest design I had ever seen, starting on the underside of my elbow and stopping short at my wrist, all the while keeping a jagged and zig-zaggy path down my arm. It was still raw and the skin around had turned a little blue. Actually, it was pretty gross, but I had seen worse.
I crossed the room to my trunk and opened it, surprised to find my clothes still inside of it, almost untouched. My plain dress, however, was gone, so I picked the next best which happened to be a darker blue with gold trimming and gold leaf patterns on the skirt. The sleeves started out bell-like, and then from the elbow down tightened into a clinging gold fabric. I thought it looked like something Guinevere from King Arthur times would have worn. I smoothed out the front of it and made my way down the hall to the Great Hall. On my way, though I heard whispered voices from a room on my left. They seemed sad, so I gingerly knocked on the door.
"Yes?" Came Eowyn's voice from the other side. She seemed distressed. I opened the door and rushed to where she stood, hovering over a bed.
"Maddy!" She said as I reached and hugged her. "Maddy, I…I don't know how…he's dead, Maddy, he's dead…" Her voice trailed off and I looked onto the bed. Theodred lied there, battered and obviously dead. I choked and kneeled down beside the bed, tears bursting from my eyes.
"Maddy," Eowyn whispered, kneeling down and putting an arm around my trembling shoulders, "I'm so sorry…" I nodded, unable to speak. It felt as if someone had taken something away from me, but I was unable to figure what exactly it was.
"He couldn't say anything but your name. That's all he could say, he kept saying he needed to tell you something, but you were unconscious so I couldn't…oh Maddy, you shouldn't have gone after him!" She said through her tears.
"I'm sorry! I-I-oh Eowyn! I didn't want this to happen!" I yelled; this was too much. I got up and ran from the room and just kept running blindly on until I finally had to stop. Amazingly, I found myself in the stables. I sat down on a pile of hay and buried my head in my hands. I wasn't crying anymore, but I felt as if my head would explode at any second.
"Maddy?" Asked a small voice from the entrance to the stables. It was Beinion.
"Yes?" I said, lifting my head and attempting to wipe away some of my tears with the back of my hand.
"Are you okay?" He asked, coming over and sitting on the hay beside me. I nodded.
"I'll be fine."
"I miss him too." He replied, hugging me and burying his head on my shoulder. I hugged him back.
"We'll make it through this together."
After about thirty minutes of just sitting there, we got up and went back inside. Beinion held my hand tightly as we entered the Great Hall and found-to our surprise-that all of the guards had been knocked to the ground and four figures stood in front of King Theodred and Eowyn. It was Legolas, Aragorn, Gimili, and Gandalf.
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