[Witch_Queen]

Jon looked out of the window in his room. The sun was already coming up and he was now wide awake. He didn't get any sleep last night for he was tossing and turning, constantly having nightmares about his childhood. Jon walked over to pack sitting in the corner. He knew he had some different clothes for the ones he was wearing was in dire need of a cleaning. After changing Jon decided to place his dreams in the back of his mind and try to forget even having them. Jon walked to the common room only to see that Dwaline had yet to return. "Hmmmmmmmmm!" Jon shrugged his shoulders and walked to the door of the inn. He decided that his horse needed to be checked. The horse had come along way from Rohan to the Shire. Many times he had thought that taking his brother's horse wasn't a good idea.

He walked to the stables only to see that his horse was doing good. Laying beside the animal was its breakfast. "Eat up my friend, I don't know how long we'll be here. After all, I'm here to talk with Aman." With the mentioning of her name the horse nudged Jon's shoulder. "Yes I know you remember her." Jon turned to go back towards the inn only to see a bird perched on one of the many beams supporting the roof of the building.

The bird looked familar to Jon but for some reason it was as if Jon knew that deep down inside he had a connection with Avalon and now was the time to find out. "Good morning Avalon." Jon's voice had no sound of excitement or merriment. He was tired of having no sleep and Avalon had something to do with that. Jon stared into the bird's eyes only to see nothing. "I guess I was hoping that if I saw you some of my problems and questions will be solved. But I was wrong. Perhaps some day I will understand why you have haunted my dreams and made my father think me mad." Jon knew he was rambling on and on. "But of course you know what I'm talking about. Yet what does it matter what I people think."

Jon was tired of the one sided conversation. He left the stables and went back to the inn for a mug of something. He didn't care as long as it woke him up.