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Post by Nimmir on Jul 14, 2005 14:14:01 GMT -5
He looked back at her smiling, and smiled at the other young elf boys who were all practicing. He chose a small bow and handed it to Laru. "Can you aim?" he asked, taking his own. It was large for someone his age, but he didn't care. He was good at it.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 14, 2005 14:16:49 GMT -5
She held the bow awkwardly, at the top, and looked to see what Naru was doing. When she saw him grip it in the middle, she did, too. The wrong way.
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Post by Nimmir on Jul 14, 2005 14:41:49 GMT -5
"No, wrap your fingers like this and keep your arm striaght," he smiled and showed her how to knock an arrow.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 14, 2005 14:48:09 GMT -5
She smiled back, trying it herself. She nocked the arrow and pulled back, waiting for instruction.
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Post by Nimmir on Jul 14, 2005 14:56:24 GMT -5
"Keep your elbow high," he told he, drawing his own bow, "And release!" he released it and it hit slightly off center, but not bad.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 14, 2005 14:58:17 GMT -5
She nodded, doing so, and watched her arrow fly waaaay off. Two boys had to duck. "Sorry!"
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Post by Nimmir on Jul 14, 2005 15:01:16 GMT -5
They looked at her and sighed. "Keep both eyes opened," Naru told her, a smile teasing at the sides of his lips. "And point the end towards the marker."
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 14, 2005 15:02:51 GMT -5
She nodded, and did so. The arrow at least went in the general direction of the target that time. She sighed. "Maybe I'm just not good at archery."
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Post by Nimmir on Jul 14, 2005 15:15:22 GMT -5
"Keep with it," he told her. "Uncle Glauron is, and my Nana is."
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 14, 2005 16:31:34 GMT -5
She looked at Naru. "Your Nana does archery?" she asked, surprised. She always pictured her Aunt Nimmir with a pipe in hand, not a bow.
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Post by Nimmir on Jul 14, 2005 16:53:34 GMT -5
He nodded. "She did before she was married," he told her. "She used to travel... and I with her!" He sighed. "You'll have to ask her to see her bow... it's older than your nana!"
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 14, 2005 17:35:00 GMT -5
Laur looked at him, surprised. "Nothing is older than my Nana!" she said with certainty. "Unless it's Elrond. Or Eramrath."
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Post by Nimmir on Jul 14, 2005 21:11:17 GMT -5
"Well this bow is," he said. "It was our grandfather's."
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 14, 2005 21:12:02 GMT -5
"Oh," Laur said. "Our grandfather? Who was he?" She looked at the bow with new respect.
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Post by Nimmir on Jul 14, 2005 21:19:49 GMT -5
He smiled and held the bow tightly. It was one of the few things that he had been given from his mother. "He was a smith like your Ada, but he fought in one of our last wars... I think it was called the Last Alliance."
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