owyn Book 1 The CageChapter 14 Rangers
[Setting the scene: the events of this chapter take place at Dunharrow. Aragorn, who Éowyn has unsuccessfully tried to seduce, and the rest of his Rangers will depart for the Paths of the Dead in the morning.] Sweat. Heat. Need. Panting with lust, she nevertheless forced herself to remain still. She needed to think. Her encounter with Aragorn ended terribly, it was true, but as she fled blindly through the night she was surprised by the swift onset of numbness, both to her feelings and...