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			Bethberry, 
 Many thanks.  As to how much time I need in Edoras:  Your offer should provide the leeway I need.  Essentially: long enough to raise some eyebrows, re-find Ędegard, hopefully attract some fellow adventurers, borrow a horse, and head northward.    Depending on the interest garnered it could take two or two-and-twenty posts.  I'd guess more like four-to-eight on my part.
 
 Amroth/ Mellon would no doubt be glad to see Bethberry, who after all showed him the most deference of all the adults involved.  In her absence, his hope for finding a mount may grow quite thin.
 
 --Helen
 
				__________________...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.
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