Brokenborings

Before Dema left Brokenborings to begin her search for more Lost Mathoms she decided to find homes for the three she had already found at the picnic.

The sheet music was meaningless to her so she decided to bequeath it to someone who would be able to make use of it. The Inn that smelt of sheep had some windows high up in the hillside and Dema had heard music coming from one of these windows on the many occasions that she had been sat in the bough of the large Oak that grew nearby. Creeping across the roof line Dema tucked the scroll into one of the many window boxes.

The Bounders were all stood around the corpses of three men. They had been discovered at dawn by a farmer out on the road between Budgeford and Scary.  All three lay neatly side-by-side and it was not until the farmer had looked closer that he discovered they were in fact dead and not merely sleeping peacefully, each one had been felled by a blow to the head. At their feet lay numerous objects that appeared to be of Hobbit make and would in fact turn out to be the same objects reported missing from Budgeford and Stock some days earlier.

Naima was pleasantly surprised when she arrived at The Plough and Stars, when she had heard that most of the customers were local sheep farmers she had expected the Inn to be a small grubby place surrounded by bleating animals. What she found however was a large well run Inn, immaculately clean and with a warm and friendly group of customers.

Naima Longfurrow was born and raised in Oatbarton. Even from an early age she was popular, everyone wanted to be her friend and she was always invited to birthday parties. Her childhood, like most Hobbit children, was spent outside playing in the fields and orchards around the village.