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Chapter VIII: Flies and Spiders
They walked in single file. The entrance to the path was like a sort of arch leading into a gloomy tunnel made by two great trees that leant together, too old and strangled with ivy and hung with lichen to bear more than a few blackened leaves. The path itself was narrow and wound in and out among the trunks. Soon the light at the gate was like a little bright hole far behind, and the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over and listened.
As their eyes became used to the dimness they could see a little way to either side in a sort of darkened green glimmer. Occasionally a slender beam of sun that had the luck to slip in through some opening in the leaves far above, and still more luck in not being caught in the tangled nightstand matted twigs beneath, stabbed down thin and bright before them. But this was seldom, and it soon ceased altogether.
There were black squirrels in the wood. As Bilbo's sharp inquisitive eyes got used to seeing things he could catch glimpses of them whisking of the path and scuttling behind tree-trunks. There were queer noises too, grunts, scufflings, and hurryings in the undergrowth, and among the leaves that lay piled endlessly thick in places on the forest-floor; but what made the noises he could not see. The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs: dark dense cobwebs with threads extraordinarily thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them. There were none stretched across the path, but whether because some magic kept it clear, or for what other reason they could not guess.
It was not long before they grew to hate the forest as heartily as they had hated the tunnels of the goblins, and it seemed to offer less hope of any ending. But they had to go on and on, long after they were sick for a sight of of the sun and the sky, and longed for the feel of wind on their faces. There was no movement of air down under the forest-roof, and it was everlastingly still and dark and stuffy. Even the dwarves felt it, who were used to tunelling, and lived at times for long whiles without the light of the sun; but not the Hobbit, who liked holes to make a house in not to spend summer days in, felt he was being slowly suffocated.
The nights were the worst. It then became pitch-dark--- not what you call pitch-dark, but really pitch; so black that really could see nothing. Bilbo tried flapping his hand in front of his nose, but he could not see it at all. Well, perhaps it is not true to say that they could see nothing: they could see eyes. They slept all closely huddled together, and took it in turns to watch; and when it was Bilbo's turn he would see gleams in in the darkness around them, and sometime pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance, and then slowly fade and disappear and slowly shine out again in another place. And sometimes they would gleam down from the branches just above him; and that was most terrifying. But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. "Insect eyes" he thought "not animal eyes, only they are much to big."
To be continued.........
Humans
Vampires
Zombies
Werewolves
Elves
Goblins
Spirits
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The second ability is fine by the way.
It has the proper wording. They started to do it all in one ability because Oblivion Ring, for example, can be abused:
1. Oblivion Ring enters the battlefield.
2. In response to the triggering first ability, sacrifice Oblivion Ring to Auratog (nom nom)
3. Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, second ability triggers -> cards should return to the battlefield, but there aren't any exiled yet.
4. First ability resolves, permanent is exiled forever, because Oblivion ring exists no more. Tah-da!
Whereas in the Banishing Light scenario, the first ability itself checks for the presence of Banishing Light, so when it resolves and Banishing Light no longer exists, the permanent is exiled, then immediately returned, because "until Banishing Light leaves" still cares about the Banishing Light itself.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/moonweaver
@Flatfish Thank you.
@atrongbelieves Well done.