Each day I feel like I'm closer to leaving this world but each time something keeps me from falling and instead I lie injured for awhile.
I am tired of this pain but I have no choice but to continue, for the Free People.
After the last attack on the Angle we laid traps to prepare since if they have found us once then there is no mistake they will find us again and sadly we were right.
Me and Thorontir along with our newest companions Ceregadan and Faerollas went down to the river to check the traps he and Garram had set up but as we crossed the river I slipped in the mud and the river took me. Ceregadan tried to catch me but instead he washed with me down the stream.
We managed to swim to shore again but I have lost my spear and after knocking against a rock I was already bruised.
Thorontir and Faerollas found us and as we prepared to make our way back to the Angle to rest and warm we were attacked by a scouting group of orcs.
I was without my spear but a dagger I had still and another was borrowed so I was not without weapons.
Orcs were at our front and backs and the cliff and river to our sides. Even if we had wanted to we couldn't have run and so there we stood back to back and fought our way through.
I do not know what madness gripped me but I spotted loose ground in the cliff side and something within me told me to use it and so I did. I picked up a rock near my feet and threw it towards the cliff side and as the rock landed I felt as if I had just wasted precious time.
However to my surprise it seemed as if it was enough to make the earth move, almost by unnatural means. The ground should not have moved by my actions but it did none of the less and fell down to the orcs that were approaching me and Thorontir, it did not kill them but it stunned them enough so that we could deliver the final blows.
We were not without injuries and we were unable to scout as we had planned but our question about the situation was answered in this attack and so we warned the people and while I rested in the infirmary plans were made to prepare for another attack on our home.
A few days past and then we got a warning from an elven scout who came to us and while I was sent to care for the children he, thankfully, joined the battle against the skirmish that was upon us.
We could hear the battle and the only thing I could do was try to calm the frightened children and pray that they would not be left orphaned in this attack.
We won this day but our war with these creatures is not over yet and there is still a large battle to come. I will have to prepare and save my strength.
