Once everyone else had fallen asleep, the two remaining murderers came back to Shasta's body. They covered his body with a nearby tablecloth and sat silently beside him as the Night wore on, until finally, one of them stood up abrubtly.
"Shasta's dead, and everyone else is lying in their warm little beds, all smug and happy that he's dead!"
The other murderer stood, too. "We must avenge his murder. Those who did this to him will not get away with it. They will feel our pain before the Night is out."
Stalking through the Night, the two murderers crept into the trailer of the person who'd first accused Shasta. They gagged him and tied ropes around his feet, looping the rope around a pole outside his trailer. Eomer woke sometime during this, and he tried to reach his feet to claw off the rope.
"Oh, no, I don't think so," the first murderer said.
"You and your ridiculous dreams got Shasta killed," said the other.
"We will not stand for that," said the first as the other murderer smacked his hands away from the rope. Eomer's face started to turn red.
"I think we may have tied the gag a bit too tight," commented one of the murderers as Eomer clearly struggled to breathe. "Oops."
The other murderer pulled out a piece of paper and scrawled a message on it, then pushed it into Eomer's shirt with a pushpin. The note read, "He deserved what he got. Be careful what you say. We're always watching."
When the sun rose the next morning, the cast gathered around Eomer's house. They arrived hoping he would tell them the name of another wolf, but they all stopped short upon seeing the gruesome sight in front of the doorway. They glanced uneasily at eachother as Boro read the note aloud.
"I guess it was sort of inevitable," Tum said.
"He went down with honor," Eonwe said.
"We will remember him always," Foley promised.
"How better to remember him than to avenge him?" Bom pointed out.
"We must kill the murderers," Galadriel55 said. "Now more than ever."
"They said they'd kill anyone who tried," Nerwen said, "but they'd kill us all anyway."
"Whether or not to kill the murderers is not the question," Eruhen said. "The question is, who is a murderer?"
"We've got more clues than ever," Sally said. "Come on, guys - we've got to get this right toDay."
"No more innocent deaths," Boro said. "The murder stops here."
Starring
Tum as Frodo
Foley as Sam
Sally as Merry
G55 as Fredregar Bolger
Eruhen as Gimli
Eonwe as Boromir
Boro as Gandalf
Bom Tombadillo as Tom Bombadil
Nerwen as Galadriel
Dead
Lottie as The Director
Glirdy as Glorfindel the Ordo
Zil as Elrond the Ordo
McCaber as Aragorn the Ordo
Shasta as Legolas the Murderer
Eomer as Pippin the Seer
Day 4 has begun.
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I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris
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