Gwen wiped the ran from her eyes then gazed at the strange woman. She was not sure of her, but she could not deny treating her. She felt the sudden weight of the sword, and wonder what she should do with it. Should she reveal what she was and show the power she held, or keep silent and let her strength be a surprise. She knew she could not go home to Pippin with this sword in her hand, she did not want him to know anything about her past. Sighing she closed her eyes and visualized the empty space inside her where the sword was kept. Reighn watched as the woman's sword became part of her, then faded away. Her eyes traveled down her body looking for the make of a captive. The two silver bracelets on the girls arms. Strange markings glowed on the bands when the sword was out, then faded slowly away as it melted into her body.
Gwen opened her eyes, the other woman did not seem very surprised. She knew what she was. Shame rushed through her veins, but she would not let it show upon her face in a flush of red.
"Come, let me take you to my house where I can treat you." Gwen pushed her hair back and started back toward the house. Reighn caught up with the woman, but did not speak to her. "Do not tell my husband what you saw, or how you came here. He knows not what I am." Gwen did not shift her gaze from in front of her as she spoke.
"Whatever you did, you do not deserve the bondage you have," Reighn looked at the woman. "That sort of bondage is a sure path to destruction for both the master and the slave."
"My master knows not that I am his slave. I am bond more to the devil, then to my master," Gwen's hand moved to the bracelets. "I fight ever night, but I cannot win my freedom."
"You are married?"
"Yes."
"To your master?"
"No."
The two approached Gwen's home. She pulled the key out from the folds of her dress and unlocked the door. The light of a few candles lit up the small home. Gwen lead Reighn into the kitchen where she began to warm some water over a smoldering fire. Reighn sat on a small chair as Gwen fetched some cloth strips from the next room. She soaked the strips in the warm water. She added a mixture from a small packet into the water and began to stir, making sure the strips her soaked. She took them out and laid them close to the fire so they could dry quickly. Using a cloth she cleaned the wounds on Reighn with the left over mixture, then she got the damp strips from the fire and wrapped them around the wounds.
"There, the herbs should keep infection from setting in," Gwen began to clean up quickly.
"Who are you?" the woman asked.
Gwen turned around, "I am now called Gwen, what I was called in the past is not important now. I am married to a Hobbit by the name of Peregrin Took and I am the house keeper and protector or Frodo Baggins."
"Was your crime so," Reighn began, but was interrupted by the voice of a man.
"Gwen, darling are you out here?" Pippin appeared in the doorway of the kitchen. He stopped and locked at the strange woman, not quite sure what to make of her. "Who is this?" Pippin drew close to his wife.
"I heard something in the woods, and I found her there, her horse has thrown her so I brought her in so I could heal her wounds," Gwen said, wiping her hands on a rag.
"Oh, well then," Pippin turned to address the stranger. "You have found the best healer there is." He put his arm around his wife.
Gwen smiled and bent down and kissed Pippin on the cheek, "You flatter me too much. I must go to Frodo's its my day to fix breakfast. "
Reighn got up, "May I go to, I have no knowledge of these parts."
Gwen turned and faced the woman, "Yes."