My time has now come to leave, I can not face being away from the land I called home any longer.
Although Ashwyneth was not aware of it, I had said my goodbyes. She has too much to lose here. Friends, family. I can not put her at risk by joining me, time will be a healer for her.
I plan to leave the moment I put this parchment back in my pocket, head south from Bree and then move east through the unfamiliar lands the folk here call "Lone-Lands", it is beyond there that I will find the darkness beneath the trees but I hope that the distant memory of my journey here will give me some bearings on the roads I must take. Me being exiled from Rohan will be the last of my worries if I make it that far.
