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Subject: return to his home

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Halbarad

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Date Posted: 19:45:04 07/11/02 Thu

He left at night at the same hour that he once came.
From the wild this man was native and thence he now returned.
To bird and beast and plant. He returned to his land from the town of Bree back north to his home he went. Warily and watchful yet with as great a speed he could. He walked never stopping. As he walked animals watched among them were some good of heart and some that were not so. He cared not of them as he was busy captured by the thought of his murder attempt. How could I have forgot that Gandalf was no more living with the men he had passed into the uttermost west? What a fool I have been. The lies Morgoth wove can never truly be lost. They will continue to control men to his command or the command of the others with him. He walked and thought for a many hour until he came to an area dense with trees. So much that he could see barely a yard infront. With sight gone you must rely on other senses such as smell and sound. This was the way Halbarad was taught from birth. He stood still and made no sound more than the sound of his breath, deep and silent. Through the trees came a language not native to the North Downs or the woodland surrounding. The language was the black speech taught to orcs in the time of Sauron. Revolting and painful to hear the words, if you could call them that, were full of malice. He listened yet knew not what was said as no free man by his own will would learn the black speech unless his life was forfeit. From the Dunedains lip came a call, that of the eagles. Down from the heavens now descended a hawk small and fast. Like lightning it came and landed upon the mans shoulder. Then in the same cry the ranger talked to the hawk and up it rose circling above the trees then heading east over the trees towards the voices then it was lost. There in silence sat the ranger waiting.
He waited for minutes until a cry sounded beyond the trees and quickly the ranger hid and vanished from sight. His garments all the hues of the earth had fulfilled their role to hide him at speed. He waited not moving an inch. He saw an arrow speed up through the air past a small dark shape. The shape was spurring upwards and turning towards him. The orcs had discovered the hawk and knew it to be one of the kinds that the free people befriended. It came and landed in the tree next to the ranger. It cried as fast as it could what have befallen and dropped from its claws a brooch. It was the brooch that was worn by the chief of the rangers. It was now his by right now Aragorn had a new people. He would always be the head of the Dunedain yet he could not be everywhere at once. While he was in his kingdom I would take his place. I will not replace him I will but cover for him while he be gone. He attached the brooch to his cloak and left after feeding the hawk some of his food as a payment. He left and headed of into the wild to think of what to do and where to go. As by this brooch he knew his people tried too early and were either destroyed or scattered. Something was mounting something to change the course of his life and of the other free people�s lives.

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