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The man under the hood



Ramithin woke up early seens the sun shine though the window in to her room. She pushes her self up out off the bed, a bit stiffed. Her body has not been the same seens the long travel from Gondor and all the things happened on the way. She stays sitting on to the side of the bed for a moment. She rub her face then stops and hold he face in her hands. She feel so alone, she have not found a person to hold company with seens she entered Bree. She thinks for her self that Bree is not like Gondor. She shake the feelings off her and stands up and walk to stand in front off the mirror. She watches her self, she look more thinner then before she left Gondor. She looks down on her chest. The bandage has start to become more brown then white. At least the wounds have stopped bleeding she thinks before she takes it off and start to clean the wounds. Even after a month it has not heal the way it should. Some are still red and infected. The water in the bowl on the table in front of her is turning more red and brown as much as she try to clean her wounds. As she has done as good as she could she place the bandage back on. She hear some screaming downstairs. She signs and shake her had. All night has been full off screaming. She put on her cloths and pack her bag. She is done with this place. She walks down the stairs and pays off her room and says that she will not come back. Then she start to walk, as soon as she could she walked outside the gates of Bree and in to the woods. She explores some old buildings just around the area pretty near Bree. She found some old tool that does not seem to been in any use for a long time. As she keep exploring she hear someone playing a harp from one of the buildings. Curious as she is she walk inside the building to see who it is. She see a man in a hood sitting up staris a wooden plat from. Slowly she walks closer to him with her bag on her back. The man see her and stops playing. He offer her to sit next to him and they start talking. For the first time seens she left Gondor she had now found a person that seems to not be to drunk ot stupids to talk to. She felt that what he said was real and honest. They talked for hours. Soon the hours was late and the sun had for long ago been down and the stars was lighting the dark sky. He asked if she wanted to stay for the night, he also offered her to sleep on his bed roll. Ramithin could see the gentleman in him but feared that he would freeze if he did not have a bed roll to sleep in. But after a short argument she lie down on to the bed roll and he on his cloak near the fire. She fall to sleep with a worried feeling that he would freeze during the night. The night passed quick and as the sun raised on the sky and birds start to sing she woke up a bit confused about where she was at first. She looked around and se saw him, laying near the extinct fire with the cloak beside him. She hurried to put her cloths back on and walked up to the fireplace to start a new one fast. As the fire start to grow she crawled to sit behind him to place the cloak around him again. She noticed that he woke up a little and turn to her, now placing his head on her lap. She strok his head gently and told him in a low voice to go back to sleep and so he did now with his head still in her lap. She smiled and started to sing a song her mother always used to sing to her during night time. She noticed a smile on his face even when he now have closed his eyes. He started to hum with her in the song. She was surprised that he really knew the song but she got a really warm feeling as she hear him. Soon after they have been singing her stomach was start to grumble. She had not eaten a real meal in a long time and as he was lying in her lap he could hear her stomach. He told her he had some food in his bag, she garb it and took some food out of it and looked at him.

  • Do you want some? Or should I feed you? She say in a bit teasing way.

He chuckled and opened his mouth like he wanted her to feed him. She laughed and took some of the food and gently put it in hid mouth. They both eat and enjoyed the heat from the fire. A new day had just arrived and she had no plans to return to Bree.