-Theoden- "He needs to have people who care about him... but right now, that is not me. I only have one feeling right now. Hatred." Alyna's voice was so final, so decisive... I couldn't stop her words from ringing inside my head. I tried, I tried so hard to stop. I closed my eyes as I sat there, thinking how it could have all gone differently if I hadn't walked out of her room that night. It almost killed me to get away from that room the first night. I sighed. I looked at the spread of mountains behind me, and the sky was so blue. Soon the sun would set.. This was my favorite place in my kingdom. Somewhere I could run off, away from all the problems, and be- be Theoden. Not Prince Theoden of the Kingdom Lumene, who had all these rules and ties attached to him. Prince Theoden had

