"Thanks for all the help." Arthion muttered. He and Lithoniel kicked their horses into a hard gallop. They had to reach Sulena and her captor before they got to Rohan or Sulena would be finished.

"Perhaps..."

Neracelc shrugged.

"But lets just say that you will be the last one if I change my ways... but currently you just seem to be one of those many to come... no offense..."

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Súlena rolled her eyes slightly, "I'm touched" She mumbled as she shifted again uncomfortably. She had a mischievious look in her eyes, but she kept silent.

"And now get some rest because I wouldn`t want to wake you up in the middle of the ride after you have fallen asleep now wouldn`t I?"

Neracelc drew his hood over his head and crossed his arms behind his neck as he looked at the sky almost above them.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Súlena sat quietly, shifting one last time. she smiled, it worked, her bonds fell to the ground. She got to her feet and ran as fast as she could.

Neracelc wasn`t sleeping at all, but merely resting and he got up as soon as he realised what was happening. Neracelc jumped up grabbing his crossbow and aiming towards her shoulder, Neracelc smiled as he fired his bow.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Súlena cried out in pain and fell to her knees when the arrow hit her shoulder. Pain rose up like flames. She cursed herself for running in a straight line and not zigzagging at all. She put her hand to her shoulder and moaned, it did not go all the way through. SHe looked back at him, she was getting light headed.

Neracelc ran to her and grabbed her by the shoulders.

"You just wouldn`t listen wouldn`t you? Well you will be sleeping for a while and consider yourself lucky that it wasn`t a venomous one because not even I have the antidote to that you see..."

His victim fell asleep, Neracelc sighed as he carried her onto the horse and this time tied her up for more rougher than earlier. So they began a slow gallop trough Rohan towards the river Isen where he would be safe.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Súlena listened to his words as her eyes grew heavy. They closed after a time and everything went black as she fell to the ground in a deep sleep.

They had arrived to the grasslands of Westemmet in dawn, but currently they were passing Edoras from the north trough the plains and headed straight towards the gap of Rohan. They would pass Westfold and then Helm`s Deep arriving to the river, but that was a two day trip tops with their current speed. Neracelc looked back towards his homeland of Gondor that he had left behind and he couldn`t even see it`s mountain tops, he grinned slightly as he began thinking of the trouble earlier.

"I hope they aren`t tracking me down..."

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Súlena shifted slightly after quite some time. SHe rubbed her shoulder, this was beginning to seem like a crued cycle. She opened her eyes, blinking a few times, this was not her day.

Arthion and Lithoniel heard a scream and immediatetly turned their horses in that direction. They rode hard all day but their only reward was finding a dead fire and the place where the man and elf had spent the night.
"Look!" said Lithoniel pointing to some rope on the ground. Arthion leaped off his horse and picked up the rope.
"She tried to escape.. but..." then he noticed the bloodstained grass. "But he shot her again."
"Do you think she's still alive?"
"Let's hope so!" He mounted again, after picking up the trail they galloped away.

Neracelc knew they were sooner than he haad thought to arrive at Westfold from where he had only to get to the river Isen, but speed was his chasers advantage and the distance to the river Neracelc`s. He had been unrest about this all, they were surely tracking him down and this time there was no mistake.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

(ppl don`t forget this thread!)

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Súlena looked back at the tatooed man behind her in the saddle, then at the land around them, she knew they were almost there and she had a sick feeling that after her little escape attempt, he was not going to be very generous when he was through with her.

Rhayader dismounted from his horse and crawled to the top of the large mound. He looked down upon the the man and the elf traveling. He smiled and rose to his knee. Quickly Rhayader drew his bow and launched an arrow aiming for the elf's bounds. He quickly knotched another and aimed for the man's chest.
"Get out the way!"
Rhayader called to the elf.

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