They did well, they did as I told them. I sent them to that old hermit woman's house in Combe to watch her and see if she has dealings with a guard. Indeed she has. He visited her late after sundown and they spoke for a long time, it seems that she was showing something on a book to him but Aeirillen couldn't see what it was, nor the name of the book. From her accounts they left after she did and they saw something strange, which I will not write here, for I don't believe that she is a witch. It could have been anything...
I don't like this thought but it seems that we will have to get our hands on the guard. Such a thing would get us in trouble with the law, but if he is up to something we must do it, no matter the cost. That woman was visited by a bandit and the guard, I don't believe that the guard was oblivious of the other man. I may be wrong, but I also may be right, there is only one thing that I can think of and that is to capture the guard.
It must be handled delicately, too delicately, nothing must go wrong and no one must know that we will capture him. If he indeed is involved in any mischief I will kill him myself, not caring if he is a guard or not. He may have taken an oath for his duty but if he is part of an evil plan he has to die, no matter what.
I won't go with them this time too, I have to finish the arrangements about the new Barracks and about something else I have in mind. Also, it will require of one to be quiet and to not attract attention, in that I am completely useless, I can take on as many adversaries as possible but I cannot be quiet and if I try I will do something wrong, I better stay away and do what is needed in the back while they are in the frontline. After all, if needed, I will be the one to charge first and lead them in combat, as a leader has to. It is the right thing to do and a privilege to lead your companions whom you command into battle yourself and not cower in the back barking orders.
I will summon them in the Mess Hall again, it's the only quiet place in Bree and now that we don't have the Barracks we can meet there. No one must here of this, capture a guard of the town of Combe... Ha! Even when I was a sellsword we wouldn't do such things but well, times change, measures have to be taken. Now I must decide on whether we should snatch him when he's on duty or when not and where. We have to watch him closely for the rest of these days.
