Lord of the Rings: This World We Live In

Chapter 4

It was dark, very dark.

No matter where I looked, all I could see what darkness. I blinked a couple times, trying to help my eyes adjust to the darkness, but it was no use.

Everything was black.

I started to get concerned. Why was everything black? Was I asleep?

I could not have been sleeping. I felt awake. Then again, I could have been dreaming, but I felt that this was too real to be a dream. I would not have felt the cold breeze that passed through me and continued to blow around me. It was all too real

But I still could not see.

That was when I noticed a dim light appear from above. It was a very thin strip of pearl white with a tint of blue. I tried to look around the small ray, but I could not see anything. The only thing I could see was where the light hit the floor and I noticed a hint of brown. Then the light started to grow. That’s when I saw. There was a body lying there.

I felt my heart tense up for a quick second and then it was beating again only this time the pace had increased. That was when I felt my feet carrying me towards the body. I tried to protest, but my feet would not listen. As I walked, I could hear the sound of something being crushed under my feet as I walked. It sounded like leaves and sticks and it made me think that I was in the forest.

My feet continued to carry me until I found my self, crouching next to the body. As I looked over, I noticed that it was a young man. He had wild, curly hair, that was sprawled out behind him and what made me nervous most was that his eyes were wide opened in fear as if he were impaled by something.

My brows furrowed in confusion as I scanned the body to see if there were any wounds. That’s when I noticed the feet and my eyes widened. This was a Halfling!

Looking up towards the face again, I noticed the hair color. It was hard to tell at first with the light, but now that my eyes had adjusted, I noticed how it reminded me of someone, but whom? It was just the hair that reminded me of someone, the face was not one that I recognized.

I looked around the body to try and see if any blood was spilled. The area around him was a dull white and black. Looking more closely, I noticed that the black was actually a shadow being casted by the light and that made me realize there were actually pieces underneath him. With my brows furrowed, I reached down and picked up a piece and then my heart froze again. It was a bone. The piece was small and from how it looked, it was from a finger.

As I realized this, the area started to get brighter and my eyes widened. There were bones everywhere. I let out a gasp as I threw the bone down and jumped up and away from the body. Looking around all I could see were bones of different types. I began to panic. What was going on? Where was I?

That’s when I heard a high shrilling noise. I tensed and I recognized that cry to be of a Black rider.

My heart was beating hard and fast now. I looked around, trying to figure out where I was, what was going on, and why, but there was just a wall of black and the light domed around the body and me, showing a small portion of the area with the body in the center.

The shrilling cry came again and this time followed by footsteps. I turned my head towards the footsteps and that’s when I heard whispering. It was the same language that was used by the riders in the forest when Alassëa and I hid from them.

I took a step back as the footsteps came closer. Blood was pounding in my brain and fear coursed through my body. I did not know where I was, nor did I know what was going on.

Suddenly the whispers stopped and as they did a wall of fire erupted from the spot I was staring. I let out another gasp as the flames spread, surrounding the black wall of darkness. There was no escape. I was now terrified as the flames started to close in. As they came closer, I kept taking a step back until I tripped over the body that lied behind me.