[shieldmaiden]

Haleth was walking with the group thinking and still not being able to believe what happened:

She was sleeping when she felt someone stepping and tripping over her arm...someone heavy and wearing iron boots. “That darn Dwarf never looks where he’s going, I’m not a piece of wood!” she thought.
She opened her eyes and tried to move and realized that she was covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves.
She managed to sit up and was amazed by what she saw.
There was something that looked like a mixture of a tree and a very, very tall man talking to Dwarin and the others. She thought that she was still dreaming, she remembered the tales that her father used to tell her and her brother when they were kids. Tales of giant walking and talking trees that lived in the haunted Fangorn forest.

And now she was striding in the company of one of them. She couldn’t get her eyes off it. This journey was getting stranger and stranger.