Name: Yuffee

Born: August 25, T.A. 3007

I awoke to the sounds of swords clashing and saw that I was locked in a filthy jail cell. Two men fought with the guards as I clambered to my feet and tried to gather my wits as quickly as possible. I had no memory of how I had gotten there nor what had happened before. I gathered from my aching head and the bump upon it that I was struck and had lost my memory. The men had two hobbits with them, one male and one female. The female jumped on the back of one of the guards and stuck a dagger in him killing him and her weight, although small, dropped him to the floor as he died. They unlocked the cell and we escaped together into the next area where yet another man was fighting a terrible black cloaked rider on a horse that was equally as frightening. The rider stabbed the man and left almost in fear of the flames and the tallest of the two men who had saved me. We took the injured one in lifted him up as one of the men brought a horse that was fleeing the flames and as he did so two more hobbits ran in who I knew, Celandine Brandybuck and a grumpy hobbit named Mundo Sackville-Baggins.  The eight of us escaped into the nearby forest and traveled to a small village called Archet where we all dressed our wounds and began to get to know each other.

The tall man was a ranger named Strider and his companion who was stabbed was another ranger named Amdir.

The hobbit other than Celandine and Mundo was Bounder Boffin.

The other hobbit was a girl named Jinoa and the man who brought the horse was a mysterious man named Crystopher who later taught me how to use a bow and a blade alongside Jinoa.

Archet seemed to be in peril and as Strider looked after his friend and Celandine and Mundo licked their own wounds, Crystopher, Jinoa and myself began to gather a remedy for Strider's friend Amdir.

It was quite clear that we were not welcome in this town as nobody believed that the brigands were so well organized or dangerous but they were wrong in the end.