Board Thread:Forum Roleplays/@comment-25356210-20150709191917/@comment-26295802-20150711230823

Imrahil had a horrible nightmare.

It began upon a beautiful summers day, the day before those fatal summons came from Lord Denathor to come to Minas Tirith with all available forces. Imrahil sat in his palace playing chess with Lothiriel, his only daughter. All was well. But suddenly a cloaked figure burst through the window and shot Lothiriel with a crossbow bolt. Imrahil gave out a cry, but instead of leaping back out of the window, the figure stood upon the sil and laughed at Imrahil with such malice that it could have been Morgoth himself laughing.

Imrahil awoke with  a jolt. He had often been pleagued by dark nightmares, having witnessed so much evil violence and torture during the War of the Ring. But the dark figure was new to his troubled dreams, having only began appearing after he fished Edacnik out of the river. Since then the cloaked figure haunted all of his dreams like a horrible ghost. No matter what the dream was about, or what the situation, the dark figure was always somewhere, standing behind a bush, tree, window, or pillar, mocking Imrahil and laughing at him with dreadful malice.

"Why is this happening to me??" wondered Imrahil "what does it mean??"

Later that morning, Imrahil confided in Edacnik about the strange nightmares he had been having.

"Do you have any idea who the cloaked figure in your nightmares is?" asked Edacnik in a strange tone

"In a way" said Imrahil "I do. It took me a while, but I finally know: during the Seige of Dol Amroth, when our forces where pushed clear back to the bridge to Tirith Aear, my beautiful daughter -my only daughter- made the mistake of walking too close to a window. A crossbow bolt flew through the window and struck her in the neck: I ran to the window and looked down, but whoever shot the bolt was long gone. . . but from the top of a building acrossed the bridge I saw a dark figure in a cloak holding a crossbow. This is the same figure that haunts my dreams.

But very strange is it to me, that these dreams started when I took you out of the river."

"Strange indeed. . ." said Edacnik in a worried tone "strange indeed."