I got a very unexpected visit today out in... where-ever I am at... I don't have a map but I know I'm very close to the Moria mines.. I just wish the Locals here would tell me where to go and stop asking for so much damn help! Anyway as I was getting relics for someone who had lost them to the half orcs... A familiar shadow appeared around the ruins.. I was dumbfounded in fear, I was so sure he was going to kill me for fleeing Bree... but to my surprise he didn't. He was actually glad I had left town. I had asked him how he knew, he said he talked to a girl in the Pony that he had seen me talking to before. I know I wrote Desta and Floer before I left of where I was going... Oh well I guess I didn't say to not tell anyone in my letters...
I told him the message I had received that made me flee. It seemed to have spooked him as well. Apparently It's about another Trapper that he knows.. And I'm thinking its not the good kind of "Knowing" if you know what I mean. I asked him if he thinks the other Trapper will try to take his shoes... He said he will most likely try again. I told him to be wary of his recruits.. I told him if I was going to take someone's shoe's I'd fish with them enough until I knew the best way to do so. It was just a suspicion really.. I hadn't met any of the recruits before I left town.
I told him, that I wasn't a killer... and I was afraid of all the Roses... even the Ex Roses.. The only one that I wasn't afraid of was Acherd. He's a friend.. The rest.. even Gold.. scare me. Gold used to not.. but as I had more interactions with him, and observed his actions with others, I started noticing something odd.. When he was around just me, he seemed cheerful, happy even... But around others he seemed different... No longer the Gold I knew.. I'm not sure which is the Facade.. Don't get me wrong, I still like gold, he did save me that one night in Bree... I'm just trying to understand his changes, around different people.
I even told Hawk that he scared me... but as I'm starting to get to know him, I'm starting to fear him less and less... I think the tales I've heard about him are what caused more fear in me then they should have. Since the beginning... Hawk has only really looked out for me. He assigned me my mentor, Tarth who has taught me invaluable lessons in combat. He's gotten me out of trouble twice.. now? The night I got mugged, even though he was with Gold, to my understanding he helped. And with that other Gardener...When I don't even realize it.. until I get up to move I notice him keeping an eye out for me in the Pony. Perhaps I should stop fearing someone who's only been kind to me...
Ha! Who knew Hawk was a horse Inspector?! That made my night, I had a good laugh, I never thought he would be! Apparently he inspected someone else's steed to find me. I guess it is a long journey from Bree to here.. I would've used someone elses too but I needed Roach by my side.. I didn't want to burden one of my friends to take care of him while I was away. Plus he's a trooper.
I'm glad he didn't ask me to return to Bree, or to wear the colors of the Roses...Which makes me think he truly is trying to look out for me. I hope I don't lose my shoes helping my brother Dudon from the mines when I go. I think I will set out tonight to the mountain, If I follow the side of the mountain I will have to eventually come to the mines right?! I don't know... I'll figure it out.
