When Kalir followed the two girls back into the inn and seats were taken, Ajada was fully able to consider what had happened outside with Avery. Ajada nearly hyperventilated at the thought of her and Avery even having some sort of mutual respect for each other. Calm down, this doesn’t mean you’re her friend, Ajada reassured herself.
Kalir spoke heartily to Avery as the three waited for others to wake up, and hardly a word was said to Ajada. She had taken to staring out into…nothing, and apparently nobody wanted to bother her. However, when Ajada did return to reality, she lent a hard, cold look towards Kalir. He was the one Ajada most suspected of being LinGalad’s evil farming minion in taking over Middle-Earth.
“If you have had any illegal liaisons or questionable contacts in the past, I'm warning you now that I will terminate our acquaintance once they come to light,” Ajada suddenly informed Kalir, who stared back at her, stunned.
“Alright then. That’s…nice.” Kalir said, and returned to his food and his little chat with Avery. Suddenly, it dawned on Ajada that the thief, Elf, and farmer might be in one big group readying themselves to overthrow the Free Peoples of Middle-Earth! Ajada stood, gasped, pointed at Kalir and Ajada, and opened her mouth to speak.
“I should have known! You’re in on their sinister plan as well, aren’t you Avery? Well, I won’t fall for it any longer! You plot treason towards not only the society of Gondor, but you have aligned yourself with such barbaric miscreants as Kalir and LinGalad! You have become one of their lowly sycophants! I hope when one of the high authorities discovers you, you…you…well I’m not sure what I hope happens to you but I hope it is bad!” Ajada finished her accusation with a stammer. She’d make a good lawyer. When she noticed the stares being given to her, she blushed. “Well then, I think I’ll go and wake up our lazy friends.”
Ajada rushed out of the inn’s common room and ran quickly and nimbly up the stairs. Coming to the door that she remembered from the night before as Mattius and Radagast's, she knocked on the door harshly.
"Wake up you lazy, lackadaisical, languid featherbrains!" Ajada cried loudly, continuing her loud banging of the door. She heard something hit the door from the other side with a muffled thump, and Ajada, assuming it was a pillow or something to that extent, cheerfully moved on to the next door.
Ajada continued on down the hallway. She rapped on every door and called out rude names, all variants of the ones used on Mattius and Radagast, whether the room held one of her company or not. Everyone in this inn should be up now anyway, Ajada reasoned.
When she was done waking the whole inn, she skipped back downstairs and sat next to Kalir.
"They'll be down shortly," she assured Kalir and Avery.
[ May 27, 2003: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ]
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...Come down now, they'll say. But everything looks perfect from far away - Come down now! But we'll stay.
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