Tolmen struck the uruk in the face again , "Who sent you? What are you seeking?", The uruk spat at Tolmen , "You hit like a foshân! untie my hands so I can feast on your heart!", Tolmen drew his meat dagger and slit the uruk's throat spraying black blood over the other captives. Turning to the other orc prisoners he had captured and bound,"Who's next?". The orcs struggled against their bindings to no effect as Tolmen dragged the largest one in front of the rest ,"Who sent you? What are you seeking?", Tolmen flashed his blade before the orcs face as a promise of what was to come , the orc glared silently, Tolmen grunted , "Fair enough", standing behind the smaller captives wrapped his bulging arms around each neck in turn and squeezed until each orcs eyes were bulging and the neck was broken. Tolmen gave the large orc a considering look , the orc spat "You'll get one thing from me Ashgog..", Tolmen raised his eyebrow ,"Oh?", The orc snapped his fangs at Tolmen ,"A painful death!", Tolmen gave a cawing laugh , "Is that so? Let's have some sport then", cutting the bindings of the orcs wrists. The orc launched itself toward Tolmen who punched the orc with a bone sickening crunch into the orcs face. The coup de grâce was driving his blade through the orcs neck severing the head to the bony spine. Tolmen gathered a sack from his saddlepack along with his smaller sword and cooly detached each head from its former owner. As he mounted and left the grisly scene behind several elves appeared and one of which he knew by sight ,"Ai! What are you little lost lambs doing here?", The leader who didn't give a name said they were seeking a misplaced scholar to which Tolmen replied , "Perhaps you should ask my friends here, maybe you can get better answers from them than I did", tossing the sack of heads toward the lead elf with a laugh. Not taking Tolmen's word the elves went to check the ruins finding no errant scholar and then attempted to detain Tolmen like some common criminal. Tolmen loomed over the lead elf grimly smiling before calling his warsteed. He mounted before it came to hard blows between the elves and headed north, before circling back to spy on the large group of elves making their way toward the Moria gate. Noting several elves known to him he kept his distance and made camp when they stopped. Tolmen wondered why such a party were wandering the forsaken lands of Eregion. Since he had been reminded of his duty to his fallen comrades when escorting Tuilerie and two pilgrims, he had kept a vigil ever since, keeping the level of pests down of intruders into the land. He sighed, he would have to find more heads to place on posts the only harsh language such invaders comprehended but still they come seeking Valar knows what in the shattered landscape.
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