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Title: When The Rain Brings The Silence
Characters: Mister Smith
Prompt: rainy day / 7 days, 7 stories
Words: 122

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Smith closed his eyes, turning his face towards the rain falling from the sky. No one else was around; everyone seemed to hide inside the Mountain from the stormy weather.

He enjoyed moments like this: the silence, with only some birds chirping in the trees, the wind blowing through the leaves, and raindrops falling in tiny puddles. Alone. Even God's voice in his head kept quiet.

The rain increased even more, and not even his old coat would protect him for long. Soon enough, he would be wet to the bones. He continued to stand motionless. It had been a long time since he had felt so free and peaceful, and he wanted to savor the feeling for as long as possible.

Title: Riddle Games
Characters: Bilbo, mention of Gollum
Prompt: riddle in the dark
Words: 258

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Sometimes, when Bilbo couldn't sleep, he tried to remember some good old riddles. How much fun it had been, sitting around a campfire with a group of hobbit children. „You always know the best riddles, uncle Bilbo,“ his nephew Frodo had told him with mischievous sparkling eyes. It had been long after his bedtime, but Bilbo hadn't minded. He had laughed before he came up with a new riddle. „The last one for tonight,“ he had said. However, everyone had known that it would go like this for hours.

Bilbo smiled, his heart full of melancholy. It seemed as if this had been another life. And maybe it was; so many years had passed, so many horrible things had happened. Some good things, too. Now, he had almost reached the end of his life and had made peace with most of it.

Just one memory could still give him nightmares. Riddles in the dark. He had been so young back then, and thoughtless, and reckless. Gollum's threat still drowned in his ears. „The riddles. If you don't find the answer, I will eat you for breakfast.“ He could still feel a shudder running down his spine, but he had almost enjoyed it back then. It was a game he loved to play.

A game for his life, and he almost lost it. Only with a dirty trick (he had never before used one to win) did he finally defeat Gollum. And escaped through the darkness, with the ring in his pocket.

He never played a riddle game again.

Title: The Fellowship
Characters: Link, Sidon, Riyu, Yunubo, Tulin
Prompt: Fellowship
Words: 356

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„No!“

Four pairs of eyes looked at Link, full of surprise. It did happen only rarely that the young knight was talking, so they almost had forgotten that he was actually able to do so.

It was Tulin, the Orni knight, who first found his voice again. „No?! What's this supposed to mean,“ he wanted to know.

Link kept quiet, only shaking his head. Looking determined, he turned to his loyal horse Epona, jumped into the saddle, and lifted his hand for a goodbye. But before he could gallop down the way, the Gerudo Queen stepped forward. She was young and small, but Link had already learned not to underestimate her.

Her green-brown eyes sparkled. „You want to leave us behind? After all we did go through together, you still think you are better off alone?“

„No way,“ Yunobo huffed, „this is not your fight alone. The Gorons count on me.“

Link watched them silently, his blue eyes full of sadness, and finally stopped at Sidon, who had kept quiet so far. Now, the prince of the Zora nodded slowly. „I understand,“ he said. „I felt the same when my sister didn't return from her fight against the evil. As if I had left her alone when she needed me most.

Today, I know better. Nothing that happened so many years ago was my fault. Your fault neither. Mipha, Revali, Daruk, and Urbosa, they faced the evil without any fear because of you, Warrior of Hyrule, owner of the master sword. Even after the downfall, their souls never gave up hope that one day you will be back to bring it to an end.

The time has come. Stronger than ever before, you will take up the fight against Ganon again, and we, the progeny of the never forgotten knights, will follow you, wherever your way will take you. You can't hold us back. Because this is our fate, like it is your fate to fight for Hyrule.“

Link blinked, bent his head. „So be it,“ he said, patting Epona's neck when the horse started to prance back and forth. „Together, for Hyrule. Again.“