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[wouldnottakeit]

Faramir will not go far into the woods. He was warned about them on his arrival, and, although he has no doubt in his own skills as a ranger, he arrived with no weapons and a wound that still is not entirely healed. So he forgoes any urge to examine them more closely for now and instead sits on a large rock near enough to the woods, but within easy

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[topofadmiration]

Miranda, knowing no better, sees nothing rude about going to look at the pile of books this unknown man has collected, and when she comes out of the woods and notices him, she does just that-- kneeling down beside the pile and peering at the titles just as easily and casually as if she had been invited to do so.

[wouldnottakeit]

He puts down his book for a moment and watches her, amused. "Have you found any there that interest you, lady?"

[topofadmiration]

'All, my lord,' she says, not sensing his amusement. 'What lands are these you read of?'

[wouldnottakeit]

"The past of my own land," he says, holding up the book he was reading before she interrupted him. Not that he minds, of course. "The others are of strange lands I have heard of since my arrival here. Chicago and Camelot."

[topofadmiration]

"Know you not the tales of your own land?" she asks curiously.

[wouldnottakeit]

"I know them very well. But I still find it enjoyable to read them again."

[topofadmiration]

"But these others? They are new to you?"

[wouldnottakeit]

"They are. I studied much before coming here, but never did I hear tell of them in Gondor."

[topofadmiration]

"Is that your land, Gondor? I do not know it."

[wouldnottakeit]

"That is my land and few here seem to have heard of it. Where do you hail from, lady?"

[topofadmiration]

"An island, my lord, with no name. My father and myself were the only mortals on't and we did not give it any."

[wouldnottakeit]

"Only you and your father? I hope you were not overly lonely there." Although it does help to explain the bit with the books earlier.

[topofadmiration]

"Lonely, my lord?" She doesn't seem to recognize the word.

[wouldnottakeit]

"Lonely. Did you lack for company?"

[topofadmiration]

"No, my lord," she says, confused still. "I had my father."

[wouldnottakeit]

"Oh." Faramir is probably just as confused as she is. He knows that if he was stuck on an island with his father as the only company...