The Last Walk

Rick and Gythleth took a walk into the countryside again. As the sun began to set and with Bree down below the hill, Rick told him that the trip to Dale had been brought forward. In fact, save for one day being employed in preparations; the trip was being brought forward the day after tomorrow. 

A stunned Gythleth took the news with halted breath and an unsteady nerve. He knew the trip was happening, at some point. For many weeks he tried to wrap the idea around in his mind. He had never been parted from Rick, ever. Both had been together since their "nasty" Father was still crawling in their shadows when he first came to Bree-Land. And to Dale, of all places. 

Both sat on the hill watching the sunset and talked. They talked long, a mixture of emotional farewell and joking banter, till at long last balls of light individually appeared in the town.

"If you get wed before I return, I'll never forgive you..."

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