It has been such a sedate few weeks. I have risen early, checked on any injured people, tended them along with the other healers if necessary and gone on to my other chores - sometimes cleaning skins, sometimes sewing the furs and leathers together with thick needles and sinew for thread, sometimes just helping to make the evening meal. It is, if nothing else, a very co-operative life we lead here; everyone must fulfil a role and provide aid for others if we are to continue living in peace and relative prosperity. It is harsh compared to the southern life, yes, but very satisfying.
The peace of the valley, though, was somewhat interrupted when the guests arrived. From the look, and sound of it, they had bickered all along the Ram Duath, if not further! It would not surprise me, of course. Davick's jealous ways are not unknown to me.
Marinette has accompanied him, as I knew she would. To my surprise, however, it would seem that she has brought a stranger with her. I cannot say that I am best pleased with this development; I have considered it imperative to keep my origins unknown in Bree knowing, as I do, the local peoples distrust of outsiders and their prejudice against Angmarim. They have their reasons, of course, and good ones also, but I doubt they they know or care of the differences between the Trev Gallorg and the Trev Duvardain. Likewise, I doubt it would matter much to them that I grew up in Bree-land if they knew the truth of my birth. This man could ruin everything for me, and they brought him here!
Davick, of course, is more concerned with the idea that this man might take Marinette's affection from him. Given that he once boasted to me of the "open" and unfettered nature of their relationship and how he liked it that way, I find his reaction to this possibility to be selfish and irrational. I do not understand why it is fine for him to give his affections freely to others and not for her to do the same. Was that very thing not the reason he cited for this choice being so difficult? Because they have their freedom to do as they will with whom they please and he liked it that way?
It only gets worse, of course. Marinette and I spoke of his jealousy after he retired for the night. Somehow, that discussion resulted in my confessing what had happened between Wolf and I, and the choice he claims he has to make. She was not angry or upset, nor even jealous, over what I had told her and, oddly, she encouraged me to pursue him further. It became a little confusing, though, for on the one hand she more or less told me to take his attention from her whilst on the other she implied that she wished him to stay with her.
I know not what to think on this situation anymore, save that I tire of it. If he cannot choose, and soon, then I shall do so on his behalf.
