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Subject: No way out

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Eowyn

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Date Posted: 21:14:06 04/16/02 Tue

Eowyn was getting very worried. She turned round and round but the was no shout for her, and she could not see a thing. Their was a rustle in the bushes.
"Faramir?" she called yet again. Her voice was wavering, and still there was no answer. She wanted to ride on in the hope that she would find him somewhere up ahead on the road, but she had been looking in every direction and now she had become disorientated and didn't even know which way was forward. The bushes rustled again. In sheer panic she headed the opposite way to the noises. She knew she had headed into the wood beside the road because tree branches kept lashing her. Many of her healing cuts were re-opened and she could feel droplets of warm blood running down her cheeks, arms and legs.
She turned her horse round and tried to head back to the road but the surounding trees seemed to be endless. Again she turned around, and again she found nothing but trees. She could hear rustling and she knew it was not her horse or the wind because both were still. Tears began to mix in with the blood on her face. She was alone, defenceless and blinded by darkness. She dug her heels in to Mellon's sides but he stayed rooted to the ground.
"MOVE!" she yelled at him in desperation. It was no use. Shakily, she dismounted and began to run. She ran in every direction but she could have been going round in circles for all the good it was doing. She probably was.
She tripped over a tree root that was sticking out from the ground and was sent flying. Her head hit the trunk of a tree with a dull thud. Weakly, she pulled herself on all fours. Her head was starting to spin. She was about to give up when she heard the sound of horses hooves. She scrambled towards the sound and was amazed to find her hands touching the gravel of the road rather than the sharp grass and wood of the forest floor. She tried to stand but her legs gave out beneath her. With a yelp of pain she collapsed to a heap in the ground. The last thing her brain registered before her body gave up was the fuzzy silhouette of a recognisable figure leaping off a horse and running towards her.

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