The Strongest Bond [Middle-Earth Fanfic]

A Strange Meeting

She looked at me with a determined expression. Suddenly, she grabbed the knife and plunged it into her leg.

"No!" I screamed as I lunged towards her. Shara fell backward as her eyes showed her immense pain. I couldn't stop it. I couldn't stop her. I had failed.

Ten days earlier, we had been walking through the forest on our way to our home village when an old man had stopped us. He had asked for some food and if we had any spare change. Politely, I had explained that we had no money but that we would gladly share our small food provisions.

After helping him as much as we could, he thanked us and handed me a small round stone. He spoke to us in hushed tones explaining that he no longer wanted the stone and it was our responsibility to watch it. Finally, we sent him on his way and headed back on our path home.

"That was strange." Shara looked at me. She is my younger sister and a tad bit reckless. She has brown hair, green eyes, and is a little shorter than me. Although we are related, we look nothing alike. I have black hair, nothing like hers, and grey eyes.

"Ya..." I scrunched up my face in confusion. I looked down at the smooth stone in my hand.

Shara followed my gaze, "What should we do with it?"

I exhaled, "I have no idea." I answered honestly.

"That old man was very queer. And mysterious."

"Hmm...I guess we should just continue on our way home." I put the stone in my pocket and started walking back on our path.

Shara hurried to catch up with me, "Wait! Sam! That's it? We're just going to go home? What about the stone?"

I stopped and turned to her, "Shara, we can worry about the rock later. Mother is waiting for us to get home."

When we arrived back at our village, I brought the mule into our barn and unloaded. Shara went inside.

That night, as we were eating supper, Shara started talking. "So Mother, we had a run in with a beggar on our way home today."

"Oh really? Did you help him?" My mother looked up from her plate.

"Yes and when we were done he-ow!" Shara shouted as I kicked her under the table.

"What Shara was going to say before she had her spasm was that he thanked us and went on his way."

Mother gave us a confused look but nodded her head. "I see. Well I'm glad that you helped him."

After dinner, when Shara and I were getting ready for bed, she came up to me with her hands on her hips. "Why did you kick me during dinner? That really hurt, Sam!" She complained.

"I didn't want you to tell Mother about what he gave us. Not until we know what it is."

"Still, you didn't have to kick me so hard!" She frowned.

"If I hadn't kicked you that hard, you would have just ignored me." I sighed.

She lowered her hands, "Oh...well...that's kinda true...I guess."

I smirked. "Yep." When she saw my smile, she huffed and walked away. "Goodnight!" I called after her.

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