A man and woman walk into the Prancing Pony their clothes have bits of dark red dried moss speckling them. Both people have heavy eyes under their eyes and weary looks on their faces. They walk up to the counter.
"We need a room with two beds," Eriac the Strong says.
Barliman sets a key on the table and takes the coins Eriac put on the counter, "It's at the bottom of the stairs."
"Thank you. I think I need a drink before I go to bed."
"I'll join you," Elsa the Bold says. "I've needed to get drunk since everything started happening in Agamaur.
The pair find an empty table and sit facing each other with their mugs in front of them.
"What do you think of that strange brown cloaked fellow" Elsa asks.
"You don't recognize who that is?" Eriac responds.
"No do you know him?"
"That is the wizard Radagast."
"We have an actual wizard at Barad Dhorn?" Elsa asks. "That must be why you gave him your office in the tower."
"I certainly had no intention of refusing a wizard something they requested."
"Why is at Agamaur? Aren't there more important places for him to be?"
"The brown wizard is a strange one," Eraic says. "He seems to seek places where nature is corrupted by the dark forces. For whatever reason he believes that's how he should fight our enemy."
"What is his goal? Is he trying to purify the swamp?"
"I don't think even he has the power to do that by himself."
"Then what is the point?" Elsa asks.
"Radagast may not have that power but he is more clever than we are. I'm guessing his goal is to empower other forces to fight the darkness and hoping they will drive out the corruption."
"You mean like the spirits that are trying to help us?"
"I know he says he's trying to help us but Dannasen makes me nervous," Eriac says.
"That's natural. Spirits are unnatural so even being around them reminds us something is wrong."
"I do wonder why Radagast allows them to stay. He must have the power to banish them."
"As you said he's smarter than us," Elsa says. "There must be something we're missing."
"I suppose we should just trust him. Wizards are odd but they are on our side."
The pair drinks in silence listening to the music until they are too tired to continue and head to the room.