The Choices we Make [O.E II] ~On Hold~

Chapter sixteen- Trusting the wolf

Chapter sixteen

The feeling of fear, a pungent thing. Something I had never wanted to feel again, as the blade was raised I felt like I wanted to scream and run but my muscles would allow nether, my throat was dry and parched, my muscles where tensed and stiff, I couldn't run or fight. I was just waiting for death to take me again. I wondered if I would be accepted back into the after life, my soul was manifested and stolen after all…

The blade never dropped.

“Stop!” Yelled a voice. I could not turn to see who it was. “The king, he was not there but his advisor was.” A guard… of course. The white haired man frowned “You idiot, why didn't you collect the ransom from him!?” He bellowed at the guard, the man didn't say anything for a moment, giving me time to turn my head to see him. The guard was dressed in black, and I could not see his face. “Well…Sir. I thought.” The white haired man curled his lips back and hit the guard over the head knocking him off his horse. “fool!” He yelled “Return, and get his advisor and collect the money.” He said.

My muscles un froze and I turned towards the man “You mean to tell me you would have killed me even if that man had returned and told you that Thranduil was there?” I spat. The guard smiled, grabbing my chin in his hands. “What can I say, I don’t like to wait.” He shoved me back and Reni and I where dragged back into the cave.

I sighed quietly. “Hopefully Feanero can sort this out.” I muttered to the canine, she resonated back into her human from. Reni looked upward at the whole in the roof. “If only I was something small, like a bird.” She said. I looked upward at the golden stardust in silence for a moment. “I like your form, wolves are misunderstood.” I said to her “I've always liked them, my son had one when he was a child… He died long ago. But he was a very loyal creature and stuck by his side until the end, or so he told me.” I chuckled softly. I must have sounded like an old woman, recalling her glory days with her family before she grew old and tired.

The wolf woman raised a thin white eyebrow at me. “Told you? You where not around when your sons canine pasted?” Her voice had a hint of displeasure with my comment. I looked at the girl who sat cross legged, eyeing me. I lowered my gaze “That’s one part of my story I haven't told you…” I said. She tipped her head like the wolf she was. “What, do you mean?” She asked. I looked up, cracking a half smile at the woman.

“Well you see, I'm supposed to be dead.”

She recoiled in surprise. “What on earth are you talking about.” I chuckled softly “You see, the dark lord, Sauron was living in Mirkwood when I arrived there, In a battle against him I was possessed, It did not affect me for a while, so I had my son and got married, but later the darkness began to grow stronger and stronger, feeding off my Night terrors… and I chose to die instead of to become his servant”

She stared at me blankly for a few moments. “Then..How?” She puzzled. I smiled “A wizard and a Lord brought me back, using a forbidden magic known only to them.” I sighed “the two are now far from my reach, I want to remove these Night terrors, because… I fear something else is out there vying for my destruction it could use the same method as the dark lord before.” I whispered, my voice low.

The wolf girls eyes searched my face, trying to tell if I was lying. “That’s not possible… is it?” she questioned her self looking at the sandy cave floor, then back to me. “then we have to get you out of here, even if Thranduil wont save you.” She said, getting to her feet the chains clanking as she moved. I blinked “What will you do…” She paced for a moment, then looked to the opening in the cave top. “If I could just… get up there. I might be able to fit.” She whispered. I blinked, watching the girl go to the side of the cave wall. “These chains will be a problem, is there a way to get them off…?” She asked her self, looking at the hook on the wall, the chains where rusty and old, they looked as though they had been in this cave for years.

I moved over to her chain holder thing, taking one of the knots in the silver binding and whacking it several times against the holding spot, to no success. I puzzled over the holder for a moment, pulling at the place where the chains interlocked with the metal circle fashioned to the wall. “Perhaps if I…” I took what little water they gave us on a daily biases and poured it onto the chain, a thick rust was spreading across this metal. I did this a few more times then whacked it again, a little crack appeared and I repeated the process weakening the chain, the shackle cracked open and fell off, the wolf girl still had the shackle around her ankle and the one around her neck attached to that by a long winding chain around her mid torso. “Awesome.” She smiled at me, then sprung upward stopping just before the hole. “I'll come back for you, I swear it.” I nodded to her and she vanished from my sight.

I was putting all my hope and trust on the back of one wolf girl. I just hoped, I had made the right choice.

Trusting a wolf.