Something Isn't Right....

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"How?" Jai asked her mother. "How could you just let her go? She's my sister - your daughter. You know she's in danger. You can feel it as well as I can, if not better."

"There is nothing we can do about it, my dear," their mother replies calmly, not looking at her. "She is a part of this quest now. Her role is more important now than it ever has been before."

"How... How can you say that?" Jai said in a hushed voice. "She is just a child!"

"She is no older than you are."

"No, she is not, but she has no experience in this world! She has no idea what she's doing, why this is happening. Why she is here."

"And you do?" Her mother's voice had a dangerous calm about it.

"Yes. I do." Jai explained what she had figured out in the days since Jen had gone.

Her mother hissed. "You are too intelligent for your own good," she spat, and suddenly she was gripping her daughter's hair from behind, pinning the girl to her chest. "If you care about her so much, then maybe I should send her to a place where she no longer takes up so many of your thoughts."

Galadriel placed her free palm upon Jaisa's forehead and closed her eyes, concentrating hard. Jaisa's eyes went wide, and as she screamed, a blinding light clouded their sight... and mine.

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