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Old 03-11-2011, 09:07 AM   #26
Nerwen
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Naturally, Brinn and Rollan were both getting ready at a leisurely pace in their wagon and it was clear from their idle chatter that it had dawned on neither that anything was amiss.

Asta gritted her teeth. Often it seemed to her that she was the only member of the troupe who ever had her wits about her.

"...might work," Brinn was saying as she helped her husband into the long robe dyed and patched in many violent and clashing hues that he wore as Saruman, the Mad Magician, "if we can get Aldarion to agree to some more revisions–"

Rollan laughed and said that the problem with Aldarion was usually getting him to stop. He started to add something futher about Aldarion's endless "improvements" to the Boromir-and-Mary scene but broke off as he noticed Asta climbing in from the back step.

"It's the troupe– they're gone!" she announced. "I mean, they're still not back yet! No sign of them, and it's close-on nine bells already. Brinn, could something have happened to them? What if someone drugged their ale in the tavern and now they're being carted off to Rhûn to be sold as slaves! I've heard stories, you know... We have to do something!"

They both tried to calm her, Rollan quipping that a bit of slavery would do Branor a world of good, and Brinn pointing out how many of Asta's alarms had proved false in the past, adding that she was sure there was still plenty of time and that Asta was probably imagining it was later than it really was.

Brinn did not get very far with this argument, however, for even as she spoke the silvery clamour of bells began, chime after chime ringing in the ninth hour since dawn. The three of them looked at each other in dismay.

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