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"Very well, we will have to try and think about what is most likely. We will get the maps out and see whether that helps us decide a course", Elfride's practical nature was over riding her inner anxiety and diffidence but she wished that the General would arrive, knowing herself to be more suited to the role of Adjutant rather than commander.
She went to the campaign chest that sat under a shuttered window, and taking a key from her chatelaine opened it taking out several maps. Setting a lantern on the main refectory table she opened them.
"Bring that other lamp over - we will need all the light we can get! This is the village.." Her own estates wer outlined but the Hitherford property was also shown. "This is the area around Edoras - as you can see showing parts of the Eastfold and West Emnet and the passes of the mountains. This I think will be most useful perhaps - I am sorry it is not more recent - it dates back to the war - and this one is all Rohan."
Those who had arrived gathered around the table. Elfride stood back for a moment and thought.
"Mayonette, does Samuel have any properties his own - where he mihgt be holding Sandrina? And can you tell us all you know of her dissappearance - when exactly did she go? And where Alexander was planning to search?"
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