Angry ran quickly away from the Hamfast family, saying a quick thankyou, forgetting all worries he had about being villainised for talking to Crystal. AL he was worried about was Crystal.
Where was she? What was wrong with her? Why hadn't she said something to him earlier? Where had they taken her? What had they done to her?
He thought Hama, the Riddermarker, had gone to look after her so he was calmed a bit by that thought; he was a trustworthy man. Aman told him where they had put her and he quickly found the room (evidence of a long, mis-spent youth in all the inns around the Shire). When he entered the room was thick with rich smoke and lit by a single fallow candle.
"how is she?" he asked Hama in hushed tones, hoping for the best but expecting the worst.
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The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall, the ring wraiths ride in black, Ride on.
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