[Mithadan]

Mithadan sat at a table in his cabin making notes on several sheets of vellum. He had scratched out a rough map of the caverns at the base of Meneltarma and the courses of the river. Then he outlined some of the details of the plan which had been created.

Several crewmembers would take a skiff from the Lonely Star and contact the imprisoned Hobbits just as the Numenorean fleet prepared to make way to Valinor. After the fleet departed, preparations would be made for the Hobbits to escape from captivity. Mithadan would seek out a palantir to contact the Telerin Elves in Tol Eressea, who would depart in a fleet of their own to Numenor, staying well clear of the Numenoreans. The Hobbits would be transported to the Telerin fleet which would gather around the Lonely Star and shift to a new time approximately one year later, by which time the peak of Meneltarma should have reappeared as an island...

There was something wrong. Of course there might be some opposition to their activities. There might be skirmishes with Numenorean guards and he doubted whether the transport of the Hobbits from the caves would go undetected. But as he reviewed the plan, he felt a thrill of fear as if there were a fundamental error in their reasoning. He reviewed the plan over and over again. Then he stood and walked to Child's cabin and asked for a book of lore addressing the fall of Numenor. For hours, he pored over the book, reading the final chapters of the tale. Then his eyes grew wide and he slammed the book closed. Indeed there was a problem. He hastened down the hall to Tule's cabin and knocked on the door...