Take cover! The uruk-hai are coming! [Jack S., Challenge]
It had been a very strange morning. Raven had stepped out onto the street and found chaos; a huge increase in new couples (she recognized the signs - she'd lived through the early days of Gabe and Poe's courtship) and the occasional winged creature swooping overhead. To be honest, she wasn't sure what to make of it all, but several people had warned her that the City was a downright odd place to live, so she hadn't let the insanity keep her inside.
She'd made it halfway to school when a hoard of giggling children pulled her off the street. "Come on," one little girl said, wrapping both hands around Raven's wrist and tugging her towards the fort that had been haphazardly constructed of leftover liquor boxes. "Come on, they're storming the castle."
Raven turned a perplexed stare on the child. "What?"
"The uruk-hai." A bespectacled older boy announced, as if it should be obvious. "They have archers. We need reinforcements."
That made sense; Raven had never read The Lord of the Rings, but she'd seen the movies. And, well, if the kids needed an elven defender, so be it. Raven had the pointed ears to go with the part.
"Legolas to the rescue," she announced, and gestured towards an open door. "But don't you think we should move to a real castle with walls?"
"We can't go in there." One of the children said, "We tried and the guy at the door kicked us out."
Raven glanced back over her shoulder, and only then spotted the wooden sign hanging over the entrance: 'Hog's Head Pub.' Oh.