[Feanor of the Peredhil]

"What are you doing?" screamed Alli, barely aware that Mardil could not hear her over the ammunition fire. "Don't you dare throw that knife! You ba-" she was cut off as a sudden bump caused Mardil's shoulder to slam into her stomach. She hit him hard across the back of the shoulders, not caring that it probably didn't hurt. As soon as they were in the tank she turned on him.

"What the [deleted] do you think you're doing? Who the [deleted] are these people? Why the [deleted] are you here and what the [deleted] makes you think you have the right to come bashing your way through here, shooting at and seriously injuring a helpless balrog, taking me away against my will, and destroying Roggie's home?!?" Alli thoroughly cursed him out, getting all that much more upset by his look of understanding concern. Mardil whispered to one of the soldiers who looked at Alli appraisingly and then made himself busy in the corner.

"Come miss," another soldier interrupted. "Balrogs is evil through'n'through. They's only one way to deal wid creatures like dem."

"Balrogs aren't evil!" she screamed, flustered at this man's obvious racism and agreement errors. "They're just misunderstood!"

The soldier that Mardil had spoken to now came over to Alli. "Ma'am, it's all right. I've got a background in medicine and Freudian psychology. You're in shock. Don't worry. We've got everything under control. Here... let me treat your burns."

Alli slapped him hard as he tried to move close. She didn't trust Freudian psychologists as far as she could throw them and this one had just helped to blow the leg off of an old friend of hers.

"Let me out of this [deleted] tank!" she screamed at everybody listening. The physician soldier looked at Mardil, discreetly showing him what had been hidden in his palm. Mardil looked at Alli, uncertain. When she moved to the hatch and attempted to leave the moving vehicle, he nodded with a sigh. A second later, a needle punched through Alli's skin. Immediately she slumped and fell, unconscious. Mardil caught her and laid her on the floor.

"You know," interjected Sai nervously, "she's not going to be happy when she wakes up."

Mardil responded quietly. "She wasn't happy already. We'll deal with it once we're in a less dangerous situation. If she'd gotten the hatch open just then, it would have hit the ceiling of the passage and either broken off and caused a pileup behind us or slammed back down into her. Either way, we're currently safer with her drugged."

With that, they reached Edge-where.