I decided to take a trip to the shire, It is often hard to write in this at the Pony. As I was writing about my mentor, a elf came in and sat with me. I found out he was a courier. I decided to send a letter to Dudon, and a few scrolls he could possibly use. I have to keep him at a distance now that I'm a rose of the guild. As He courier is leaving, I spot my mentor, which I thought was kind of funny since I was just writing about him. I asked him what brought him to the shire. He said he could ask the same to me, so I told him I grew up here, and Its nice to get away from Bree from time to time.
He told me he was looking for a dwarf, and asked if I had seen one recently here... I did, but I wasn't sure If it was the man that he described. I felt so bad for him, he said the man had killed his sister, I did not have any siblings to relate, but I do believe my step-mother was pregnant when I got thrown out of the house, after my father died. I could only relate in the sense of losing my Father. He said needed to make haste, I offered to go with him, thinking I could learn a lot from the trip. Boy... did I learn ... but I'm not sure... if it was something I wanted to learn... or experience.
We made our way through the forest, He seemed to be good at tracking. I just watched and observed for the most part, We got to a small camp of the dwarves, where he threatened one a swift death if he told us where Stalgrim was. I saw a rather long stick poking out from the fire, and decided to tell the dwarf it would be painful if he didn't. Though... I really didn't want to torture the man... I'm glad he didn't see through my bluff, and he told us.
As we made it to the location we were ambushed... Tarth said if I could hold of he could go after Stalgrim, so I drew my blades, ready to defend myself. I had to clear my mind. Tell myself it was just a game.. that It wasn't a life or death situation... From then on, I did not think, I was in a state of mind of only reaction... It was odd Its like I cut off my emotions. A fight or flight so to speak... and I'm used to flight.. not the fighting part of that. I did pirouette's with my blades, constantly doing a spin and a move on my feet to not get taken by surprised in a direction I wasn't facing.
After I was cleared of people trying to attack me, I looked up to see Tarth, about to have Stalgrim and 5 of his guards to fight off... so, I made my way to him as fast as I could. I did not want to see my Mentor fall. Not after he's taught me so much! As I got to his side, I grabbed an Iron marble in my bags, that I had, and threw it at one of the men, aiming at his eye. Surprisingly I hit !! Maybe when Desta teaches me to throw daggers, I wont be to bad after all. Everything happened so fast. He departed two of the guards easilly, I ran in and locked blades with one, the dwarf was substantially stronger then me. His axes started to slowly push my blades down, and my hands started to fall slowly.. I was terrified.. Then I remembered the lesson Tarth taught me, I raised my leg, kicking him as hard as I could, the man toppled over the edge of the causeway. I looked over after to see my Mentor, hanging on to the edge.
I did not think, I only reacted and charged at the dwarf, doing two slashes... one hitting him in the back, I cannot remember but I think he managed to block my first attack.. By this time Tarth was able to pull himself back up, and he quickly finished Stalgrim. We moved quickly to escape the compound. When we got out of harms way, I looked at the blood on my blades... and I got nauseous.. I wanted to puke.. I did not know what to do but I was happy Tarth did not get hurt so I just hugged him... I wanted to burst into tears... but I didn't want to seem weak in front of my mentor...
We rode back all the way to bree, it allowed me to collect myself, so I didn't seem like such a baby. I went to the pony and rented a bed... I laid down and balled until I fell asleep... but it was a short nap. Thankfully later that night... things turned around and I almost forgot about the entire day's events... However someone just sat down next to me. I'll have to continue this tale another time.
