Three elves walk into the prancing pony and take a seat ordering wine. After Barliman sets down the glasses and the wine bottle the elves lean back and relax.
"It will be nice to have a bed and not be sleeping on a rock," Remmenylf says.
"Don't like sleeping bags?" Erchiel say smiling.
"Not when they're on top of hard rocks."
"It wasn't that bad."
"I'm with Remmenylf," Lithuifin says "I couldn't find a place without something sharp stabbing me in the back."
"It was worth it," Erchiel says. "I mean what are the chances we'd ever be able to meet an ent."
"I think you were making him feel uncomfortable. You stared at him for hours."
"Can you blame me?"
The two men laugh at their companion and Remmenylf says, "I suppose I can't."
"It's amazing that the wood trolls were enough to attract it," Lithuifin says.
"I'm guessing they were damaging the forest in some way."
"The giants certainly were."
"Why were giants this far from the misty mountains anyway?" Erchiel asks.
"Everything has been acting strange since the Dark One returned," Remmenylf says. "Giants, orcs and goblins are everywhere causing trouble."
"The giants seem to be finding any mountain range and making a home there," Lithuifin says. "At least that's the information I've been hearing from the scouts that come to get our reports about what's happening."
"That makes sense. The more chaos they make the easier the actual goals of our enemy will be to accomplishment."
"What about the gauradan?" Erchiel asks. "They were all over the mountain side setting up totems."
"The gauradan are a strange bunch," Remmenylf says. "I don't believe they are loyal to the Dark Lord. They're too primitive to care about our wars."
"Unless recruiting them is part of some plan."
"I have no doubt they intend to try just that," Lithuifin says. "However I suspect the gauradan are more likely to attack our enemy on sight just as they do us."
"I wonder if we can get the giants and the gauradan to fight each other," Remmenylf says.
"I doubt it. The gauradan want the forest and the giants are only interested in the mountains. I don't see a way to get them to fight one another."
"As it stands we should trust the ent to keep them contained," Erchiel says. "None of the enemies we've met can match it and if there's one then I'm betting there are more nearby."
"With some support from us even one will be enough to keep our enemies in check," Lithuifin says. "Besides at this point, knowing all the forces spread out there, I'd feel bad leaving one ent on its own."