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Alone (Pippin)

"Time to grow up"

Life took a nasty turn for him when he was drawn to the seeing-stone, inadvertently revealing himself to their enemy. He was bundled off the giant white city full of men where Hobbits were out of their depth as he ended up in service to the Steward, wearing a uniform that was far too big for him and expected to give his life in the defence of the city. He didn't want to die there, so far away from his home, and his travelling-companions-turned-friends who had risked everything to save him. Maybe, he realised, it was time to grow up.

Exactly 100 words. Thanks to Aria Breuer for this one. More prompts are very welcome (please use the form Theme, Character, "Prompt" e.g. Alone, Pippin, "Time to grow up"). No OCs or anime-filler characters, please, but any other character, however obscure, is welcome.

Oh yeah, if anyone's interested I'm now accepting fic requests. More details are on my profile.

Tsari