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Old 04-09-2008, 10:09 AM   #606
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Eönwë is a guest of Elrond in Rivendell.Eönwë is a guest of Elrond in Rivendell.Eönwë is a guest of Elrond in Rivendell.
Songo sat bolt upright. How long he had been asleep he did not know. He lifted up his blurry eyes but everything just blended into one. He had probably drunk too much alcohol. He'd never tried it before, and he didn't know it would be like this. He thought it would taste much nicer, and the way the old men and hardened travellers talked about ale glorified it far beyond what it was. But he liked mead. No wonder, since it was made out of honey.

He blinked furiously until the outlines of things slowly started to take shape again. Jims wasn't near him, but that was only to be expected. He would have moved away from a sleeping drunkard, and he had snored no doubt.

Before he knew what was happening, he was telling a crowd one of his tales, and they were listening intently. And it wasn't just children, which he expected, but also adults. In fact, there were only three children in the whole group. Time flew past, and soon he was immersed in a game of riddles with two other men. After answering a particularly hard one, he realised that his mind had gone blank, and he couldn't think of one. He knew it was bad form, but he used one of the lesser-known old Rohirric ones:

"Swings by his thigh / a thing most magical!
Below the belt / beneath the folds
Of his clothes it hangs / a hole in its front end,
stiff-set and stout / it swivels about.

Levelling the head / of this hanging tool,
its wielder hoists his hem / above his knee;
it is his will to fill / a well-known hole
that it fits fully / when at full length

He's oft filled it before. / Now he fills it again."


As he finished, the two men cracked and laughed for a bit, and then asked him to repeat it. This he did, but they could not puzzle it out. In the end they gave up, so he had to tell them an answer.
"A key," he said. And their faces filled with understanding, and they marvelled at the cleverness of it.

But then he saw Jims come through the door with a worried look on his face. He tried to go up to him, but Jims was already talking in a hurried conversation with Dick. Then in wonder he saw the elf that had been motionless for hours suddenly stir. He and Jims exchanged a few words, and then they were off. Songo quickly followed, he knew they were up to something, and he did not want to miss this adventure.

He caught up with them just outside the door.

"So where are you going?" asked Songo.

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