[Galadel Vinorel]

Autumn watched angrily as the wargs and wolves approached her. Suddenly Ned sprang from her side and swung his sword at the wolf, barely hurting it at all. Then Ned fell not too far away form the slightly injured wolf adn the wolf howled and then growled at him and prepared to attack. Autumn knew that Ned couldn't defend himself, so she quickly ran and put herself between the wolf and Ned.

The other wolf and wargs then came and joined their companion, growling fiercly at her. Calmly Autumn turned her sword upward and grinned at the warg; the lass had faced wargs and wolves before and killed them, she was not afraid now. All that she was thinking of right then was how to treat the wounds of her friends.

One of the wolves sprang forward, and as he leapt Autumn swung her sword across his chest. The wolf lunged for the hobbit's right arm, but just as he was about to bite into it, Autumn jerked her arm away and stabbed the wolf through one of his eyes. The wolf jerked back, but his teeth still caught in her skin and it tore away as he backed off. Autumn gritted her teeth as pain rang through her arm, and she quickly switched her sword to her left hand. The wolf stood in front of her, the lass' blood dripping form his teeth.

Then the wolf leapt at her again and Autumn struck the sword right through his skull, and the wolf fell down dead. The other wolf howled, angry to see that small hobbit kill his friend and leapt over the other wolf's body straight at Autumn's neck. The hobit then took a knife from her side and threw it right into his open mouth. The wolf fell backwards onto his friend and lay for a while making horrible gurgling noises. Then the light died in his eye's and the last of those wolves were dead.

Now all that remained was the warg. As the warg faced Autumn it growled and lunged at her. Smoothily realing her blade Autumn ducked and swept the sword along his back, cutting off most of that fur. He howled in pain and then scratched her deeply on her upper right arm. The warg howled once again and ran away from Autumn off past the Weather Hills.

After he left, Autumn fell backwards and lay there in pain on the ground, her right arm a bloddy mess. After a little while Autumn got up and began to rap Ned, Olo, and Nop's wounds and put herbs on them to help them heal faster. Then Olo wrapped the lass' arm and put it in a sling, for it was seriously wounded. Next Autumn moved to treat Elfred. But Elfred's eyes were closed, and the hobbit could feel no pulse. Olo and Ned came over to Autumn, and Ned knelt at the lass' side.

"What's wrong, Autumn?" asked Olo looking fearfully at Autumn's pale face.

"Will Elfred be okay?" said Ned, peering at Autumn's almost white face.

"He's dead. Those stupid beasts killed him," answered Autumn, her voice slightly shaking.

[ January 07, 2003: Message edited by: Galadel Vinorel ]