up."
Nanami holds her hand in front of her mouth: "It's disgusting. Just the thought of it ..."
Pearl: "Well, that's your arrow, so don't complain!"
Hitari: "How can you tell that it's your arrow?"
Pearl picks up the first arrow that accidentally fell down and holds it next to the second arrow: "I can tell by the feathers on the shaft and look ..." she holds the shafts up and points to the end of the arrow: " Here, these notches vary according to manufacture and family ancestry. Your arrows are made of softwood, some can also afford ivory, which is very expensive. Personally, I think it's a waste, because who collects their arrows after a battle ?! never again in a huge battle like the legendary Battle of Minas Harad. "
Nanami looks enlightened: "Aha!"
Hitari: "Tell me, what do you do when you run out of arrows? Especially we don't have any more arrows from Gil and Inu."
Pearl: "That's not a problem, you can retrofit yourself at an armory. It's best to buy from an elven forge. They have finer weapons."Hitari: "Good."
Pearl: "Well, Hitari's hits are right, too, and could be fatal, but Nanami got the hang of it. The first shot was better than yours, Hitari ... Come on, let's go!"
Hitari and Nanami collect their arrows and go a little further with Pearl.
Pearl: "Now I want you to cut these rotten trees a bit small with your double swords. I have stuck grass stubble in the bark where you should hit it exactly, and please only with one blow!"
Nanami and Hitari reach back and pull their swords out of their scabbards.
Hitari: "Wow, that feeling of holding both swords in your hand is much more impressive than just holding one sword."
Nanami: "It's pretty difficult, both of them ... May I start ??"
Hitari: "Of course ..."
Nanami thanks him happily and begins with a violent blow below a blade of grass at shoulder height of the tree: "Well, could be better!"
Hitari's turn now. She crosses her arms, takes a jerk step forward, and uncrosses her swords. With this blow, the dry tree kinks to one side.
Nanami can't believe it: "Wow!"
Pearl: "My goodness! That was fantastic! You have it thick behind your ears."
Nanami: "Pure luck!"
Pearl: "Oh really? Then smash the tree in a V-cut."
Nanami: "Step aside, I think I know what you want from me."
As if she wanted to summon her swords, she thrashes the edges together and with a warlike cry, knocks the swords into the wood.
Pearl: "Well, not even all the way through."
Nanami: "Well, I'll admit it, I'm not that good at it! But I'm better than you at archery!"
Pearl: "Better and worse can not be said. It is a matter of opinion and is in the eye of the beholder. You can defend yourself in one way or another, that is the main thing!Come on, now it goes on on horseback! "
Nanami calls out to her horse: "Loss my sparrow, come to me!", Loss looks up while chewing grass and then trots towards Nanami.
Hitari: "Loss my sparrow ... You treat it as if it were a small child. I'll show you how to do it!", She clamps her index finger and thumb between her lips and whistles for hers in a high pitched tone Horse: "Come on Gloss, move your bum, we have work to do!" Gloss looks up and then lowers her head again with loud puffers.
Nanami: "Just because Gloss is a horse doesn't mean that she can't distinguish between caress and command ... You have to do it with more feeling if you call her and don't fetch her yourself ... Come on me pretty !!! "
Persistently, Gloss runs into Nanami's arms and lets her stroke his nostrils: "You see, you need feeling!"
Hitari briefly looks at Nanami conceitedly: "Oh, Gloss my sweetie, I'm sorry ... You must know, I'm tense because we're training and I want to be strong."
Gloss lifts her head out of Nanami's arms and runs to Hitari with a snort: "That's fine!"
Pearl: "You've cuddled enough! Put on, I want to go on today!"
They still touched down with difficulty.
Pearl: "Now ride across the meadow and shoot or hit trees with your swords!"
Hitari: "Also on the figures who run towards us?"
Pearl suddenly turns around: "ORKS !!!"
Nanami and Hitari are stunned by this statement: "Orcs ??"
Pearl: "GET OUT OF HERE FAST !!! These cattle men are dangerous !!!"
Nanami takes Pearl on her horse: "We cannot escape! We are surrounded!"
Pearl: "Shit !!! We stayed too long in the fallow land!"
Hitari pulls out a sword: "ATTACK !!!"
Nanami pulls an arrow out of her quiver: "Pearl! Take the reins in your hands! ... ATTACK !!!"
Pearl rides off into the middle of the orcs. Nanami's first arrow hits her first victim in the chest. Hitari also fights his way through the pack. From Gloss, it is possible for her to get an overview: "There are ten orcs! We can never do that !!"
Pearl: "Oh yes! We can do it!"
An orc runs towards Hitari, waving his rusty sword. Gloss stands up in shock and Hitari's blow penetrates Gloss's foreleg. Gloss rages on with pain. Hitari can barely hold on and jumps off.
Pearl: "Put on immediately!"
Hitari: "I can't! Gloss is injured! She is in pain! How can the three of us get out of here when I don't have a horse!"
Pearl: "The three of us won't get away if one dies!"Hitari is confused as she knocks down the orc who injured Gloss. What should she do? Sit down and put weight on the horse, or release Gloss from the danger zone. She decides on the horse and gives her a handshake on the rump: "Run Gloss! Save yourself!"
The horse starts up and starts racing, out of the storm.
Nanami also gets off her horse after tackling the second orc: "Come down! Hitari is right, we can't go far without horses !!!"
Pearl: "All right!", She dismounts and lets the horse run. Then she turns around and hits an orc who was running past her with her Hobbiton sword in the back of the knee, which then falls straight to the ground. She vigorously puts one leg on his back, raises her sword and then strikes ...

Already slightly damaged, Hitari pulls her two swords over the orcs' chests. Suddenly a sharp pain runs through her right upper arm.She feels something warm flowing down her arm. Her hand loses all strength and her sword falls to the ground. Her breathing is violent and between her gasps there is a scream that is twisted in pain: "AAAaaaahh .... !!!" Her knee breaks away and she falls to the ground. From her other hand she drops the sword to pull the wound off. Her surroundings move away from her and the noise echoes in her ears. Someone calls her name. It seems so far away, but Nanami is really very close. The orc who did this to her hatefully stands in front of her and raises his sword for the final blow. Hitari closes her eyes exhausted and waits for her release. But before he lets his sword race down on her, Hitari feels something warm on her face. When she opened her eyes again, she saw blood dripping from the orc's mouth before he slumped to the ground with an arrow stuck in his back.Nanami, bleeding along her face and standing there exhausted, struck the orc down with one of her arrows. With a lot of strength she drags herself to Hitari: "What did he do to you ...?" Panting, she sinks to her knees and touches the blood-soaked fabric on Hitari's upper arm with trembling fingers. In a flash, Hitari tears the sword that she was lying on her left, past Nanami's head, which Nanami hears hissing in the air. Next to her, an orc falls to the ground with Hitari's sword stuck in its torso. Exhausted, Hitari falls backwards and Nanami also sinks to the side next to Hitari. Then it goes black before Hitari's eyes.
Pearl, who is pulling her sword from an orc's neck with the last of her strength, looks around. Less than ten meters away from her, Nanami and Hitari are lying next to each other, bleeding: "Oh no ..." Powerlessly, she lets go of her sword, which plunges into the ground. She looks shakily at her bloodied hands and then slides to the floor.She remains motionless.

In her ears she hears her heartbeat pounding. Light penetrates through her lid. Hitari clumsily opens her eyes and is blinded by the glaring light of the sun. A light silhouette bends over her from the right. A voice speaks softly to Hitari: "Shhh ... Close your eyes ..." As if she were in heaven and an angel was talking to her, she closes her eyes and tilts her head to one side. But once again she opens her weakened eyelids and with full horror sees Nanami lying next to her covered in blood and suddenly she is snatched from the warm, secure feeling of heaven and shot back into the shameful reality of life and again it becomes dark before her eyes.