It’s about some time I have written my last entry, but I didn’t have much of it to spare. There were loads of findings I have made over the past week, most of them working to both my advantage and relief.
Muiley went unconscious again. Whenever she goes unconscious, it’s quite a grievous moment since I cannot help her anyhow. Sometimes I wish I was powerful enough to rid her of these troubles, but they are just way above my potential. I’ll never understand this shadowy magic. I am beginning to wonder that maybe she came across something ‘unwanted’ in Minas Tirith, maybe the Witch-King?
In any case, it all happened very fast. A few days ago she left Bree, all of a sudden. She didn’t say goodbye or anything, and my guess is it was that Morgul would again. But whenever she felt pain I have felt it too, yet this time I didn’t feel anything and I’m quite worried about what this could mean. For two days I was helplessly mad and behaved in abnormal ways. On the third day I received a letter bearing Elrond’s seal. I thought at first it came with the new armour he sent me and expected a manual or something. I proved my expectation wrong when I’ve read Muiley is held safe in Rivendell. I have no idea what led her to Rivendell since she has been banished from there, but to be honest I didn’t really care about that at the moment.
Since I've mentioned the ‘new armour’ already, it wouldn’t hurt to write something about it. It arrived to Bree with an escort of three horses and two messengers – who were also carrying the letter for me. At first I wondered why does he send so many horses, as I only asked him for the one I occasionally rode back in Lorien – Malheru. When I tried to carry the armor myself, I’ve realized why he did so.
The armour is heavy as a rock, but as solid as adamant. The mask looks pretty fearsome and I believe this is just what I wanted. Quite often I wonder if Elrond isn’t counting all these services up to ask me for a full return later on…
Now why did I actually want such armour? Here is why.
Since Muiliel doesn’t seem to be in a stage of being able to recruit people for our cause, and I alone couldn’t handle all of those we had so far, I have decided to give a pause to it and actually do something helpful around Bree, since its status is dropping down so dramatically. This will serve to our advantage if we decide to carry on the recruitment later on, with so much less crime around. That’s right, I have decided to look more closely at Emdar and his fellows. By now I have understood I was wrong to think him fooled, and that this is really what he wishes to become. A cold blooded murderer. Therefore the armour I received now seems to fill another purpose – cover my identity. There is no way anybody of an average skill can recognize me, and only very perceptive beings could link the ‘masked man’ to me. Unfortunately, one was already successful – an elf maid warrior called Ithilvalan Lanceia, who has joined ‘them’ just about a day ago and who found out about me through such incredible observation skills even I would dream about. She didn't seem as evil as I thought her to be, and I now actually rely on her word that she would keep it a secret. I am afraid I will have to reduce my visits to the Pony in any case.
I have also gained a few names. Apart from Emdar and Ithilvalan I now know the name of the woman who I’ve overheard back then - and who is most probably his lover – Anrianne, and the name of the man who seems to be his bodyguard of some sort - Rathorn. I have not spied on names much overall, but rather some basic information about them to start myself off. I won’t write this information in here, in case somebody unwanted gets hold of you, my dear diary.
That waterfall behind the parapet, which I've never actually seen before, is stunningly beautiful - almost as much as Muiley, resting on the warm carpet right next to me. Dreaming or just resting? For Eru's sake, as long as she’s safe I don’t care.
