It was a day of eventfulness on the peak of Meneltarma. Long speeches and sharp comments were exchanged and never have the debates been more heated.
After lengthy explanations of
Roa,
Rikae arose and spoke against her, accusing her of being none other than the Queen of Númenor and in league with the Faithfuls that come to murder them.
Of course
Roa_Aoife rejected this vehemently, but now for the first time the Númenoreans wondered why
Roa always kept herself veiled under a headscarf. What may lie hidden beneath it?
“I say we shall lynch her!” demanded
Kath “Only this way we will know for sure who she is, and who Rikae is.”
“But no!” answered
Mithalwen “This would be foolish! Our numbers are too few, and if Roa is indeed our Queen, then at least we know we have nothing to fear from her but foul counsel.”
Many now spoke for one side or the other. Some even spoke for both, and even
Roa herself was among these in those confusing hours.
“Alas! How can we know what Rikae said is true, or what Roa said is true?” Nogrod sighed
“All good deeds we could do rely on the hope that we trust the right person. I wish it was not hope but assurance – that assurance we used to have before the Shadow of the West came upon us.”
The situation was to despair over...
“Do you know what I think?” said
the Saucepan Man “I think there is only one way that I know of for us to know something for certain. It might be foolish, but I will rather do this folly than another.”
And with these words he drew a dagger from under his coat and too quickly for anybody to prevent it he stabbed
Roa in her chest and blood sprayed from her opened heart. Some came to her help, but it was too late.
The Saucepan Man took off
Roa’s scarf and there everybody saw the crown of Westernesse:
Roa really was Ar-Zimraphel, their Queen, who was no longer on the side of her peoples. Tar-Míriel laid back and did her last breaths, but as she did, she laughed at those around her in tragic triumph.
Thus she left the circles of this world, and only Eru knows her fate after death.
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The Dead:
Macalaure (mod) -
brutally killed by Faithfuls in Night One
Garin (ordo) -
decapitated with a scythe on Day One
Holbytlass (ordo) -
committed suicide to revive Garin in Night Two
The Might (ordo) -
committed suicide to help Holbytlass reviving Garin in Night Two
Roa_Aoife (Tar-Míriel / cobbler) -
stabbed to death on Day Two
The Living:
Brinniel
Durelin
Gil-Galad
Glirdan
the guy who be short
Hookbill the Goomba
Kath
Kitanna
Lalaith
Legate of Amon Lanc
Mänwe
Mithalwen
Nogrod
Rikae
Rune Son of Bjarne
The Saucepan Man
Thinlómien