[Child of the 7th Age]

Eruwen's post:

Callo followed the company slowly as they made their way towards the dragon’s lair. The climb was steep on the outer walls leading up to the cavern, and he knew it would be a difficult task for even an Elf to manage. It turned out that his thoughts had been correct, for he even slipped himself and his companions had to help him back up to safety. Eventually the extremely long climb came to an end as they reached the entrance to the cavern.

As Callo climbed down the rope, along with the rest of his company, he peered around at the cave. The vast cavern depths were far more than anything he had expected. He soon stepped foot onto the floor of the enormous cavern and waited for the others to reach the bottom as well. Elentari led the company off into the front of the cavern to wait for the dragon to return, but Lenwe and Perin stayed behind preparing to help the captives scale the long rope and make their way to freedom.

The company soon entered the front of the cavern, the dragon’s actual lair. Callo searched the room in awe as he tried to find a hiding place and soon discovered a somewhat larger boulder near the entrance to the room. He ran towards the mound of rock and ducked behind it with bow in position and arrows ready to be launched forth. The room was silent for the most part as the others in the company found hiding places as well, but suddenly the silence was broken.

A large gust of wind came rushing into the room causing Callo to lose his balance and fall back onto the rock floor. Brushing himself off, he managed to get back into position. As he peered over the rock towards where some of the others were hiding, he saw Elentari and another Elf near the back of the room whispering to each other, but soon Elentari turned to Callo.

"Callo," she yelled as quietly as she could from across the room. "From your position, do you have any idea what that might have been?"

"My guess would be just a gust of wind," Callo replied, but his words were broken off by the sound of footsteps running into the cave.

"The wyrm is coming!" Perin cried out as he burst into the room, and Elentari stood up abruptly at his words. "The dragon is on his way back to the cavern!" Perin continued.

Callo stood in awe as Elentari rushed from her hiding place towards where Perin stood.
"Have the captives escaped yet?" Elentari asked as Perin tried to catch his breath. He shook his head in dismay, and Elentari turned back towards the company.
"Everyone get back into hiding and have your weapons ready!" she commanded strongly. "The fight begins now."

Elentari made her way back to her hiding place with Perin close behind her. Callo sat in his concealed spot near the mouth of the cave listening intently to the large gusts of wind coming from the other side of the cavern. Whether he was indeed ready or not, the battle was about to begin.
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Orofaniel's post

After helping to find the missing captives, Ewinda had gone forward to where Elentari was waiting. As she felt the cold wind rush through the caverns and heard Perin's equally chilling words, Ewinda suddenly realised something: they could all die! What a horrible thought! But deep thinking wasn't really the clever thing to do now. Ewinda and the company were going to distract the dragon form seeing Lenwe and Lostlondwen and the others who were sneaking behind in the back of the cavern and trying to rescue the captives. They had to be very careful, it all could go wrong if they made the slightest little sound.

The dragon was drawing closer. Elentari was drawing her sword and commanded that the others do so to. Ewinda grabbed her sword. She looked at it. The dragon that was pictured on it looked exactly like the one she was going to fight. She prepeard herself and then she thought that if the quest was furfilled at last she didn't mind dying in this battle, beacause it would bring peace and beauty to Middle-earth yet again....

[ July 11, 2003: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]