A confused looking man walks into the Prancing Pony. He has a raven on his shoulder and a roar comes from outside the bar. He talks with Barliman before leaving the bar once again. Being curious I decide to go outside and see what is happening. Outside the bar the man sits with his raven on the table and a large brown bear beside him.
"Hello," I say "may I join you."
"Of course. I am Cenlieg. These are Eferl and Linden."
"I am Owen Oaks. What brings you to Bree?"
"My group is taking a break before returning to the frozen north. We have a treasure to find but everyone needs a break after getting lost."
"I think I've met several of your companions."
"Probably," Cenlieg says "we're all wandering around the town."
"Every one of you seems to have found an exciting adventure. Do you have a story to tell abotu your time seperated from your fellowship?"
"Mostly I was taking care of this sweet girl," Cenlieg puts a hand on the bear's head. I was having trouble getting enough meat without Thurmaer with us. So I had a hobbit dressed in pink help us."
"A hobbit in pink? I suppose that's one way for a short person to make themselves seen."
"I thought they'd be able to sneak through the mountains to find Eferl from where ever she got stuck. They didn't sneak anywhere. When I asked the traveler to get her the little hobbit pulled a huge shield from their things and what looked to be a heavy hammer. They ran off toward the mountains yelling and holding his hammer above his head. I still don't know what to think about that."
"I would have loved to see that," I say.
"He protected her from wargs while she found her way out of the dens she found. I have no idea how a person so small fought all of them off."
"I find even small people can do reemarkable things. From the stories I hear hobbits can do things no one else could ever accomplish."
"I believe that now," Cenlieg says. "After he rescued my raven he went out and killed many moose. Those creatures are a person taller than he was and out weighed him by a huge amount."
"I've heard that moose can cause serious damage when angered."
"They really can and the creatures scare me. I would never imagine fighting them without Linden at my side but this little man didn't even seem hurt when he came back."
"He might have been too short to be hit by the antlers," I say.
"After that he even went out and killed a massive elk that even the hunters of the Lossoth feared. He walked out into the blizzard and then came back with the flank of a massive thirty-point elk. Before this I had never heard of an elk that old and large."
"At least Linden here was able to get the food she needed."
"That she did," Cenlieg says. "After she was strong enough to track my companions down and we all met in Sari Kyla. If not for that hobbit we might never have gathered together again."