Elsa and Eriac enter the Prancing Pony the morning after they arive. The main room is empty other than where I'm sitting near the fire place. As with all people they don't seem to notice my presense and take a seat nearby.
"That was the best night of sleep I've had in years," Elsa says.
"Well given the way you were snoring I would hope so," Eriac says smiling.
"Oh shut up. It was you that made the noise that woke me up this morning."
"I'm glad we got this chance to relax. Between the undead and the trees and hillmen we've been running around none stop."
"You'd think having a wizard on our side would make everything easier," Elsa says.
"Never count on the wizards for anything. They come and go whenever they feel like it and will never explain why they choose to help."
"This one doesn't explain why he does anything."
"If you think he's bad than you've never met Gandalf," Eriac says. "When he gets impatient he talks to you like you're a misbehaving child."
"We probably look like children to them."
"I wonder if elves see us that way too."
"I don't know they won't even talk to us unless they need to," Elsa says.
"In that way the wizards are better but Radagest does request some strange jobs."
"He seems to be ignoring the undead and hillmen. I don't understand why they're obviously the cause for the corruption."
"He seems to think they are a result of another problem," Eriac says. "Though I wonder how tree bark and animals help with that."
"I don't mind the animals so much, playing with them is fun at least. I do feel bad eating meat in front of them."
"Did you ever spend time in Agamaur before all this started?"
"No," Elsa says "I was sent there right after I finished training."
"I wonder if the trees were always walking around."
"Is that what's causing the braking branches I hear?"
"Yeah I've only seen one but it was frightening enough to make me run back to our camp," Eriac says.
"The guardian creatures have become violent as well. I remember fighting a couple trying to get to Barad Dhorn."
"Radagest has been focused on them. I think he's afraid for the swamp."
"The wights seem more threatening," Elsa says.
"More threatening to us. The question is how is our wizard trying to protect?"
"You think he's not on our side?"
"You misunderstand me," Eriac says. "I think he cares about the animals and would let us all die if it protected them."
"I'm not sure if that was supposed to comfort me."
"I'm not sure how to feel about it either."