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Post by Renton on Oct 22, 2014 0:19:59 GMT -5
"Not very long ago, actually," Pippin answered Gimli. "That's why we ought to find them now before it's too late. If only we knew where they were going and why." Commenting toward Merry, he said, "Oh, if we were to have listened to our children more, perhaps we could have found out what they may have been hiding, though then again, they might consider it an invasion of privacy."
"Invasion of privacy or not, there had to have been some kind of clue they brought up about where they'd be going or why they all left together," said Merry. Heading toward one of the castle windows that overlooked the kingdom and beyond the horizon, he looked out and thought aloud, "Oh, Kassie, where could you have gone?"
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 22, 2014 1:20:02 GMT -5
Kassie, Goldie and Tom and Grace were able to wake up with loud sounding yawns leaving their mouths. It was tiredsome going after the two elvish human siblings to see where they would be going at, but following them all the way leading to know hows where was not enough clues to know where to go would be safe for them all. After getting some bits of food to filled up their tummies, the four hobbits and the three halflings continue on.
"Following, following and following..." Grace grumbles under her breath in a cranky kind of matter. Following the sun had been their only clue, but to where? It didn't make a lick of sense for them.
Goldie saw how tired up poor Grace was feeling, like if the heat of the sun had gotten to the wizard/hobbit's head. "I hope this trip is worth it!!" The blonde female hobbit said.
"Not sure if this is more better than staying at the Shire." Kassie was saying over to Goldie. "You realize we're following a prince with no tracking skills and very little hunting skills who has no idea where he's going and won't tell us what for only that we're supposed to be following the sun each day to where it ends? THIS IS UTTER MADNESS! OUR LIVES ARE GOING TO END HERE!!" Tom ranted his fussing complaints over to the girls.
"Don't look right away Goldie, but I think this heat has crisp out your brother's mind!!" Kassie let Goldie know by whispering to her how the male hobbit was overreacting.
"THANK YOU KASS! For your news!" Goldie says, a bit on the edge of the temper side. "Congratulations O future king of Gondor! You've gotten us lost!!" Tom scolds Eldarion irritably.
Grace went on to ignoring the inner squabbling quarrel was set off between all of the friends, the princess wizard/hobbit halfing heard a sound; a sound of a twig snapping much like the one she had heard before in her dream. "Whose there?" She wanted to so deeply ask, but because they had two other halflings with them who were elves, Grace kept her mind closed so Arowen and Eldarion wouldn't be able to hear her thoughts out. Grace knew for a fact that it had to possibly be someone trying to track them down; or maybe only for her alone.
From there in the hidden trees, lies behind a shadow figure hiding behind one of them. "THERE YOU ARE!" She knew her dreams had been correct. The hobbit, whoever he was, was real and not just a figment to her imagination but a real hobbit. Grace went right after the strange figure who saw her coming right after him and ran off.
Quickly, it was Grace who was running off the wrong way did caught Goldie's attention rather fast. "Grace? GRACIE!!" "Where is she going?" Kassie asks, whom also notice too wondering what got Grace all acting so sudden that made her wanted to chase after a person.
Grace followed after the strange being of a hobbit all the way down by the riverbank. "STOP!!" She orderly commanded him to do so. He followed her demand, but did not turn around. He stood there waiting to hear her speak.
"I knew it! You're real! I knew you were real. I saw you in one of my dreams! What do you want from me? You want something; my help, but I don't know what it is you wanted from me." She said to him.
"Have you set out yet to what you must do first?" The mysterious hobbit asks the princess over by his shoulder without trying to turn around to face her.
"Huh?" Grace looked at him with confusion. "Do what? I don't know what you're trying to tell me. What is it you're talking about?" "Just as I had figured..." He said, keeping his eyes mainly keen on the running river water he was staring at. "Come find me when you are ready!"
Kassie, Tom and Goldie were able to track their friend down with thanks to the footprints that let her straight to them. "GRACE!!" Tom and Kassie called out for her name all at once.
Grace turned around, glad to see her old hobbit companions. "GUYS!!" "Gracie, we're not supposed to be going off the road." Goldie had to remind her old childhood friend. "You won't believe this, but there's a--" Grace began on telling them, but right when she looked back, the young hobbit stranger was gone; disappeared. "Where he go?"
"He who?" Asks Kassie, not being able to know what it was the wizard/hobbit princess was talking. "There was a hobbit! He was right here!!" Grace told them. It wasn't normal for a hobbit just to standing one one second, and then the next vanished so fast. "I saw him!"
"Grace, I say this because we're your friends and we care for you, but I think you've lost your mind worst than Eldarion has!" Tom inform her.
"I DIDN'T GO CRAZY TOM!" Grace shouted with a glare she shot down at the little hobbit. "I know who it was I saw and it was a hobbit; Just like you!" But the princess had thought for the better than maybe perhaps Tom was making a good point about her; had she gone wacko and completely nuts just like Eldarion? It didn't seem very healthy. A hobbit couldn't have just zip away out into the open so fast, and she too well about her own race when it came to hobbits when she has had only half blood of hobbit in her herself.
It was a wasteful time trying to argue with her friends about who it was she had seen, but she gave up and to rejoin the rest of her friends back into the road so they may go on helping their dear friend Eldarion on his quest. Grace had gotten small chills within her that someone up into the trees may be watching. She glance up only to have already caught a fast glimpse of that side shadowy figure of the hobbit spying on her. It was somewhat feeling very creepy, but if she was to alert her friends now, the strange mysterious hobbit would of been gone quickly just like that. Grace look away, but can't help but double check again looking at the trees to see that he was already gone.
"You mustn't fret so much on the time." It was the voice of the very late Bilbo Baggins that can be easily heard only to Grace's ears. "You will see when the moment comes and everything will be all right!"
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 22, 2014 21:11:45 GMT -5
"If you ask me I think Gandalf knows more about this than he's telling us." Gimli grumbled but he did wonder if perhaps Tristan and Gloin had left for the same mysterious reason the other kids had but if they did why was their leaving times so far apart from one another? There had to be some kind of explanation, but what? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"We're not lost!" Eldarion shouted at Tom mainly because the heat was making him cranky too. Not to mention the stress. He was just as lost to what he was supposed to do as the others were and of course now that he wanted those spirits to appear to him and give him more answers they ignored him.
It certainly didn't help knowing his companions thought he had gone mad either. Why couldn't he had gotten some ranger training in before all of this? It certainly would've helped.
"We'll keep going Northwest until we find a good place to stop and rest for a little while before-" He started to decide when he noticed Grace run off.
"Grace!" He yelled before following after her with his sister.
After catching up to her and listening to her friend ramble on about seeing some hobbit that just vanished, Arowen exchanged a concerned glance with her brother. 'Do you think it could be one of those spirits giving us some more information on what we should do next?' she asked her brother in his mind keeping their conversation closed to the rest of the group.
'No...I don't think so..the spirits were elves, not hobbits.' He replied back.
"Maybe we should find somewhere to take a rest to get some water and food in us and get out of the heat for awhile..?" Arowen suggested.
Though he was not happy about stopping, Eldarion nodded. He couldn't risk the others getting heat stroke or anything after all.
"So uh..this hobbit you saw did he say anything to you?" Arowen whispered to Grace as they walked to find a shaded area to sit and rest. She kept her voice to a whisper of course so the others wouldn't hear the conversation especially Tom who was one of the most short tempered out of all the group at the moment.
"So...do you really think Gracie had gone-" Amir whispered to Kassie stopping to gesture a crazy signal with his finger twisting in the air around his ear to her.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 22, 2014 21:49:02 GMT -5
"Off in cuckoo land? Maybe!!" Kassie whispers, trying to keep their own conversation just between only her and Amir.
"No, not in too much words." Grace whispers in return to Arowen when being asked about the hobbit she saw. "The same night before we left to go with you, I had a dream about him. I don't know who he is, where he came from, or what he wants frome me but when he came, he wanted my help! But...how could I help him if he'd never tell me?" She asks, wishing she had the answers to her question. It would be very useless helping a poor innocent fellow if she can't learned what it was he needed from her.
The princess closed her eyes and try to picture what it was the hobbit looked like. "I couldn't see his face because it was cover by his hood, but I remember the color of his eyes...they were blue; Very blue, like my dad's!" That was the number one thing Grace remembered the most outta the strange hobbit. Beautiful the color of the hobbit's blue eyes were, even being in hiding, they still easily shown emotion to them just like her father Frodo. But it wasn't exactly Frodo it was for she knew the hobbit she saw was more closely around to her and the other kids' age. "And...he had on boots." She added, opening her eyes. "But...hobbits don't wear shoes on their feet, but this one did."
Strange as it may have sounded, it did seem rather odd. Hobbits were the only race in Middle-Earth whom never wear any footwear, for they like being the barefooted people they are. Even the princess wizard/hobbit herself didn't wear any shoes.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 22, 2014 21:57:47 GMT -5
"Maybe it's something she and Eldarion ate or something? You don't think the rest of us will go nuts do you?" Amir asked Kassie still continuing their private conversation. Grateful to be able to sit down in the shade and get out of the heat for awhile.
"Not much to go on really from the sound of it." Arowen replied when Grace described to her what the mysterious hobbit looked like. She wished she could tell her friend about her brother and the mysterious elves he had been seeing so if anything else there would be one less person in the group to see that her brother wasn't nuts as she currently was the only to believe he wasn't.
"Don't get too comfortable guys. We need to travel as much as we can while the sun is still up." Eldarion cautioned the companions.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 22, 2014 22:08:57 GMT -5
"No, I don't think it would be food going bad Amir." Kassie replied, disagreeing with the hobbit about the part of eating something badly. But now she had grown highly with concern about them all following the same crazy type of utter insane like matters much like Eldarion had gotten it first, and now it was Grace. A serious look of worry came to Kassie's face and she threw her arms around Amir, hugging him tightly. "If the next sane person becomes me next, tell my dad how much I loved him. I don't wanna become crazy!!" She cried.
"Geez, what is happening to us sis?" Tom asks Goldie, thinking all of their friends had gone mad, but it could possibly be coming from the heat. Or so that's what he thought of it could be.
"I don't know." Goldie replied to her brother, shaking her head. "Then what? What comes next when the sun goes down? Eldarion, we're tired!! Our feet are hurting us!" She told the prince with a added groaning sigh. They had been traveling up for hours since the sun had been up, and it seem though they were going to nowhere, still like they were really lost.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 22, 2014 22:34:46 GMT -5
"And what if it's me next?" Amir asked Kassie growing more and more concerned as the thought of them all slowly going mad one by one began to fill his mind.
"No one is crazy or going to go crazy and we are not going to die. We'll be fine." Arowen told the hobbits overhearing their conversation and was attempting to try and calm them down before they became far too irrational.
"When the sun goes down, we'll rest for the night and start again the next day." Eldarion told Goldie trying to make it sound like the answer was simple and right infront of their faces but he knew it wasnt and eventually if he didn't get any real answers the quest, whatever it was, would end far before it ever began. He sighed realizing he had sounded a bit snappish towards the female hobbit though he had not meant to. "I'm sorry. I know we are all tired but I have this feeling we cannot afford to waste any time which means we need to travel as much as we can while there's still daylight left."
So Eldarion urged the group on though they were tired, hungry, and sore he refused to let them give up until they found a cave to stop in near sunset. "I'm taking the first watch." He announced to the group after they had already eaten a small meal of fish they had caught in a nearby lake. The others looked near passing out, as did he, but he didn't think he could sleep well even if he tried.
As the group slept, Eldarion remained outside the small cave looking up at the stars feeling completely lost.
'I know you're out there. Please help me. I don't know what else to do. If it goes on like this for much longer, they will no longer follow me and I fear what will happen to them so far from home should they decide this to be a wild goose chase. Can't you tell me more or give me some sort of sign to know I am doing the right thing?' He thought waiting for an answer but as usual not recieving one.
He sighed before sitting down on the hard cold ground pulling at the grass surrounding him keeping his ears peeled for any sign of trouble. He did not know when exactly he had managed to fall asleep only that he felt someone watching him causing him to wake sitting up quickly and looking around sleepily for the source of the feeling.
He sighed with relief as he noticed the she-elf spirit approach him and laughed softly with relief. "I think this is the first time I can honestly say I'm glad to see you."
She said nothing though she looked sad as she walked up to him and placed her first two fingers on his lips silencing him before touching his forehead.
A fierce and fiery pain jolted through him causing him to tightly shut his eyes and grit his teeth to keep from yelling out in agony at the sudden intense pain.
That's when he saw it. A large cliff. Water surrounding him pushing and pulling him through its storming current. Each large wave filling his mouth and eyes with the bitter tang of the salt water preventing him from crying out for help and the waves threatening to drown him each time they tidaled over him.
He backed away coughing as the vision stopped but he could still taste the bitter taste of the salt water in his mouth and he shivered from the vision of himself nearly dying. The she-elf was now gone leaving him alone to relive the fearful images over and over in his mind. Was this going to happen to him? What about the others? Would they die too? Was he leading them to their deaths?
Eldarion did not sleep anymore that night and Arowen awoke to find him sitting outside the cave looking tired but still awake. She glared at her brother hitting him on the shoulder. "Why didn't you wake me?" She asked him irritably.
"I wasn't tired so I took your watch too."
"I could've done my shift just fine you know." She replied bitterly over her shoulder to him before going to wake the others.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 22, 2014 22:53:11 GMT -5
Grace was the last one to take a while to fell asleep while Eldarion was keeping watch for the whole night for them, but eventually she did dozed off very easily without anymore nightmares of Frodo's supposedly sudden death of the war or about the strange hobbit she knew nothing about.
"Morning!" Grace said with a loud yawn. She got up outta the cave and stood outside looking at what a beautiful morning it was. Even so, it didn't really lifted up her spirits for she was still bugged by the last words she remembered hearing from the hobbit the last time she had seen him.
"Come find me when you are ready!" "Ready? Ready for what?" She wondered mumbling to herself trying to ponder at the clue he told her. "I'm ready aren't I?" What was it supposed to be Grace needed to be ready for before finding the lost helpless needed hobbit again? Was there supposed to be something she needed to fulfilled first? Still, Grace would never forget the look in the hobbit's eyes; the way he looked at her. It was a sign that they would someday come across each other's path once more when the timing was right. And the princess knew it that in her heart, it wouldn't be the last of it.
"How will I ever know when I'm ready to see him again? Grace thought to herself, wishing praying and hoping the answer will come to her if time had not been so patient. "I WILL find you again, and when I do...I hope I know what it is."
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 22, 2014 23:08:41 GMT -5
"How did you sleep?" Arowen asked her as they all set off once again on their journey. She had tried to get her brother to talk several times but he was being quiet again which made her wonder if there was perhaps another reason why her brother didn't sleep that night? If there was, he certainly wasn't going to tell her until he was ready too that was for sure.
So far in their journey they had been lucky but as always happens their luck soon ran out. Eldarion and the others were exhausted and currently looking for a place to stop for the night as it was well passed sundown now. Exhausted and tired, the group had gotten especially quiet which given how much they had been complaining the last few days, Eldarion would've welcomed but there was something about the silence that completely unnerved Eldarion.
"Guys I think-" He started to say but was cut off when he felt his leg get caught in something that quickly hoisted him up several feet into the air upside down hanging from tight noose trapped around his leg. His sword had fallen out of it's sheath hitting the ground leaving him no way to cut himself down.
Before he had a chance to warn his companions, they found themselves trapped into a tight net hoisting them up in the air with no way to cut themselves down and free as well.
"Well. Well. Isn't this a nice turn of surprise. Set a trap for deer and rabbits and instead find a couple of lost children." One man spoke with a laugh as he and his large companions approached the group.
"They outta sell for a nice price don't you think?" He added to his companions.
"Slavery is banned from these lands!" Eldarion shouted at the men as he swung back and forth trying sit himself up high enough to reach his foot in an attempt to untie it but no matter how close he got it never seemed to be enough.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 22, 2014 23:21:48 GMT -5
"Slavery? Oh no, we've been caught by slave traders! I don't wanna be sell off to slavery!" Goldie cried out, clinging onto her brother and the others though it was easier said than done when many of them had been all trapped into one big giant net all expect for Eldarion. Even Grace had feared for the worst than it could be the end for all of them. Now she had deeply regretted not giving her father a proper goodbye like she should of done in the first place if she were to had seen this coming. "Let us go or you will answer to our parents, the kings and queens!!!" Grace ordered at the evil men as she try on struggling out of their trap, but it had been very useless.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 22, 2014 23:42:34 GMT -5
"Grace!" Arowen hissed. She realized Grace and the others were panicking, she was having an inner one of her own but remembering what Gandalf told them about not revealing their identities, Grace had just given away who they were which considentally would put them into more trouble than they were already in.
"Royalty huh? Well then that does make a difference." The man who had spoken first grinned before turning to his men and adding "Cut 'em down and tie them up. Im sure their mommies and daddies miss them and would be willing to pay quite a hefty sum for their safe return of their precious children." He mocked.
Within moments they were cut down and tied up and dragged for two days towards a beach following the route of a large cliff that sent shivers down Eldarion's spine as it was the same one from his vision.
Above him and the others, storm clouds were beginning to form darkening the area around them, followed by the sound of thunder, the repeated strikes of lightning, the wind beginning to blow strongly causing the waves below them to begin crashing into the cliff face.
Eldarion turned to glance at his companions being dragged behind him locking a gaze with his sister who met his look firmly, a fire and desire to fight burning in her eyes, took her brother's look as a silent signal as she rammed her shoulder into the man pulling her along like an animal knocking him over and started the fight.
This started a chain reaction naturally followed by Eldarion, then Amir, and then the others until they soon were free from their bounds and left with no choice but to try and flee their pursuers.
Things went from bad to worse when lightning struck the edge of the cliff causing Eldarion and the others to fall straight down into the water. Eldarion's nightmare had begun.
Despite how much he and the others tried to stay together and keep their heads above water as they were pulled further and further out to sea, Eldarion knew this was the end. They were going to die.
After being knocked under the water several times by the powerful waves, Eldarion felt himself black out.
He awoke several days later locked in a cell with his companions and at first feared they had been captured by the slave traders after all when he noticed a tall young man around his age walking down a set of stairs from the upper deck of a ship. He wore a long sleeved white shirt, brown vest and pants, and a pair of dark brown boots. He had short brown hair held back in a ponytail and his right ear was pierced with a small gold earring.
It was worse than he thought, they weren't being held captive by slave traders, they were being held captive by pirates!
OOC: Dun! Dun! Dun! XD
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 23, 2014 0:15:42 GMT -5
Grace cover her mouth at the last second realizing her big mistake giving away whom they were related to and that would be royalty. Things didn't last much longer for they were very lucky they were able to escape much later on, but their luck turn for the worst after being send down to their plummeting doom.
Later, Kassie Tom and Goldie were able to find theirselves awake only to be found locked in a cell too along with Eldarion, Amir, Grace and Arowen. None of them could not say a single word after upon meeting the pirate who show up to meet them. Grace also came to herself being woken up. "Aaah...where--where are we?" She asks her friends.
"I think we've been captured." Kassie whispers to her so the pirate who show up didn't have to hear her talking about how they had been taken away by pirates.
"CAPTURED!?!!? Grace cried out. "BY WHAAA---" but when she turned out to see who the stranger whom had just show up approaching them to their cell, she felt new feelings she never felt before. No princess of Middle-Earth would ever be in love with a pirate before, let alone it being a wizard/hobbit lovestruck to someone who may or may not be at all human. "Ohhh he's so dreamy!!" Grace sighed in awe, staring at how handsome the pirate was, but came to a big blush to her cheeks when catching the last thing she had just said. "Oopsies! I said it out loud did I?"
Kassie, Tom and Goldie look at each other in confusion over how oddly Grace was acting funny, unsure if this was normal for her or not. "Uh pardon me, could you tell us where we are and where we're going?" Goldie was the first to speak up in asking for the good of the team. "You're not of those slave traders are you?"
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 26, 2014 20:52:24 GMT -5
"You can't be serious! He's a pirate!" Arowen hissed in a whisper to Grace rolling her eyes. First Jackal, now this guy? Surely it had be some kind of joke, right?
"He's not a slave trader. He's a pirate, Goldie!" Amir pointed out to his female hobbit companion.
The young man smiled and laughed a little. "You sound like I did the first time I was on the ship." He commented to Amir. "You're aboard the Black Pearl.
"Who are you? And what do you want with us?" Eldarion demanded glaring at the young man with suspicion.
"Fine way to treat your rescuers. We could've left you to drown so may as well pretend to be grateful." Another man, a dwarf, commented as he followed the first pirate down the staris. He was rather tall for a dwarf and did not have a long beard but rather a mustache and goatee meaning he was around the same age as the group if not a little older. He had short dirty blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Save us only to hold us as prisoner?" Arowen scoffed.
"Captain's orders." The first young man replied sound sympathetic. "My name is Will Turner and this is my companion Anthos. We rescued you all a few nights ago during a storm. Somehow by Aslan's grace, I managed to see you" He pointed to Eldarion. "struggling to keep your head above the waves and heard you calling out for your companions. Using the rope from the mast and tying it around my waist, I dove into the water after you with Anthos, my cousin Roran, and my friends Sarra, Haley, and Cedric. We pulled you all on board but given you're technically stowaways you'll be boarding here in the cells until we can put you all to work" Will explained before staring curiously at Tom, Goldie, Kassie, and Amir. "I've never seen your kind before. Are you young dwarves?" He asked.
Amir laughed. "No! Of course not! We're Hobbits."
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Oct 26, 2014 21:20:47 GMT -5
"You've never seen hobbits before? Are we still in Middle-Earth?" Kassie asks Anthos and Will, a bit on the suspicious side. Those who had never seen the race of hobbits before in their lives was clearly the only living answering proof to tell that someone was not from around in Middle-Earth before.
"I'd hate to stand around and see the look on her dad's face if Uncle Frodo knew Grace likes pirates." Goldie thought to herself, keeping those private thoughts to her own rather worriedly for her old friend whom didn't seem to be hearing the thing Arowen whisper in the young wizard/hobbit's ears about Tristan being a pirate, yet still it was crazy how Grace can jump to one stranger guy to another so quickly and fast.
"Aww, but you don't want to leave us in here. We're good people!" Grace says, trying to ease the young strapping pirate's way to getting out of the cells. "Isn't there someway you can let us out without sending us into work?" She asks innocently, trying the best she can to be flirting with Tristan.
"REALLY?!!? Grace goes from dating a jerky dwarf in ONE night, now she wants a pirate? What kind of taste in men does this princess has?!!? Tom thought angerily to himself, thinking his old former crush and best friend was somehow crazy.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Oct 26, 2014 21:41:30 GMT -5
"Middle Earth? We're near the Caspian Sea." Anthos looking at Kassie as if she were crazy as he and Will clearly had never heard of Middle Earth.
Will shook his head. "Unlikely. Jack made Anthos and I work when we first got on board and made Sarra and Roran do the same but Regetti and Pintel should be down soon with something for you guys to eat I'm sure Gibbs or Barbosa will make sure it isn't poison or anything like that." He replied.
"We'll pass." Arowen replied stubbornly.
"Speak for yourself! I'm starving!" Amir replied and his belly growled in agreement.
"How do we know we can trust you?" Eldarion asked still suspicious of Anthos and Will while giving Grace a warning glare.
"You don't but you've got no choice anyway." Anthos replied bluntly.
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