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    “Trader!” he screamed as he tackled him.
    The two trolls rolled across the ground
wrestling each other. Seeing their opportunity Bean and Raz ran to
Mirabella. They struggled to open the cage as she began to shake
off the sleeping powder. Slowly she rose unsteadily to her
feet.
    Nog and Rom were still engaged in the heat of
battle when Bean and Raz were finally able to free Mirabella.
Seeing her friend in combat Mirabella cried out his name,
“Rom!”
    As they rolled across the ground like
incensed tumbleweeds Mirabella’s scream echoed inside Rom’s head.
Moments later Rom landed a hard blow to Nog’s face. Nog screamed in
pain and released his grip just long enough for Rom to slip free
and get to his feet. He realized his blow was in the nick of time
for they were just a few feet from the cliffs edge. Thinking of his
friends he took his eyes off Nog for what was but a second, but it
was a second too long.
    Nog had gotten to his feet as a stream of
blood fell from his nose. With a cry of rage, he tackled Rom. Rom
hit the ground hard with Nog on top of him. They rolled kicking up
a huge cloud of dust...
    * * * *
    “No! Rom!” Mirabella shouted as she watched
the two Trolls fall off the cliff's edge. She flew to the brink and
she could see Nog and Rom as they continued to fall toward the
rocks below. “No!” she sobbed.
    Bean grabbed her up gently and pulled her
back from the edge. “Don’t watch, Princess,” he said as he held her
close to him. “I am sorry, but there is nothing we can do for him.”
A single tear rolled down his chubby cheek. He and Rom had become
close friends in the two years he had lived among them. He would
miss him greatly, but right now, he had to be strong for Mirabella.
She would need him now, for she loved Rom so.
    For the second time in two years, Rom had
risked his life to protect hers. This time he had made the ultimate
sacrifice. Mirabella’s sobs filled Bean’s ears. He cradled her
gently to him, he wanted to say something, but realized no words
were adequate. So instead, he just held her and let her mourn.
    After several minutes, her tears slowed, and
she leaned her head on Bean’s chest. “He died because of me.” Tears
still trailed from her deep green eyes and down her too pale
face.
    “No, Princess, he died for you.” Bean looked
down at her. Mirabella could see his tears threatening to over
flow.
    “I thought that I could better his life,
instead I have taken it.” Mirabella had such a terrible ache in her
heart.
    “Oh, Princess, you did better his life. You
freed him from the darkness. None of this is your fault. Rom would
not want you to feel this way. He sacrificed himself for what he
loved most in the world...you.”
    * * * *
    That night Mirabella fell into a deep sleep
brought on by the vast forlornness that weighed down her heart. She
dreamt of Rom. She heard him calling her name, reaching out from
somewhere far, far away. “I am here,” he called. “Do not forget me.
I am here.”
    Mirabella sat up covered in sweat. “Rom is
alive!” she cried out into the dawning day. She rushed from her
mushroom in search of Bean.
     
    Waking him from sleep Bean looked at
startled. “Don’t look at me like that Bean! He is alive he called
out to me. I can hear his heartbeat inside my head. It is faint,
but it is beating. We must search for him as soon as the sun greets
the day.”
    “Mirabella we cannot cross beyond the
mountain’s edge. If Rom is alive, he has crossed into the human
world. There we have no powers. If we go there will be defenseless
even against the smallest of animals that call the forest
home.”
    “Come, we must talk with the others. There
must be something we can do. If we work together we can do this, we
can.”
     

 
    ~ Chapter Six ~

    No one doubted that Rom was alive.
Mirabella’s senses were strong, but they sat quietly, uncertain how
they could do something that no one from the Mystical Forest had
ever done...cross into the
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