R.W. - Ered Luin

The moment I set foot in my brother's house, I knew he wouldn't approve of Anne. Though he wouldn't say anything. Roxy would probably understand me. They would see that she's good for me. Even though she's older, and she's a... woman. She's good for me.

The breakfast together was not so bad. In the end they decided to give me the smaller house in their land. It appears it was used for storage purposes only for a while. Now that it's not used anymore, they thought it would be best if I used it. This way 'Rei wouldn't have to worry about me disturbing him at night'. I know I can sometimes be annoying, but that's just how our relationship is.

He makes me angry by mocking me, I annoy him in return. This is our way of showing our love at each other. I suppose. Sometimes I truly believe he doesn't care at all... Yet, when I was near death... I remember him crying, sitting next to me, holding my hand. I was touched.

So... I have a home I can share with Anne now. I have books I can read, roads I can travel. We have been practicing with Anne, she taught me so much. My hair is grown even longer. If it keeps going at this pace, I'll have it waist length in no time...

Before hitting the road again, I work a few days in my brother's weapon smith, play with twins, spend some quality time with family.

I have forgotten how heart warming it could be.

I should visit them often. Next time, I shall come bearing good news or some gifts or something...

R.W. - Lone Lands - Anne

After Rei and Roxy took me in and patched me up, it took quite some time for me to recover from all the wounds. But in the end, I recovered with only small scars. I decided to do what I have been wanting to do ever since I got near death; visit Anne.

Anne was a barmaid in LoneLands Forsaken Inn. I had met her while I was still travelling and gambling. She stopped me from spending all my travel money, that's when I knew I caught her eye. She was pretty older than me, yet I knew there was something special about her. We spent a couple nights together and whenever my road took me there, she always greeted me with a smile on her face.

I said my goodbyes and thanks to Rei and Roxy and the twins, and journeyed towards the Forsaken Inn. She was still there. Even though i thought the scarsa were minor, she saw right through them. We talked all night. There was a worrying expression on her face.

"I'm coming with you," she told me yet I objected. "It's not your decision," she said. I objected again.

"My travels are harsh and dangerous..." I shook my head. "I can't keep worrying about you when we're on the road."

I saw a grin on her lips, she silently went to her dresser and took out a one handed sword with carvings on it.  Then she told me about her past; she was a shield maiden yet she became an outcast when she failed a task she was given. Her people were on her trail, and they'd kill her if they found her. She told me it would be great to travel, make it hard for them to find her. Seeing she's pretty capable of protecting herself -and most likely me too- i quieted and hugged her.

After Luke was gone on his way and rest of the crew dead, it was lonely. It was just nice to have company.

"I can't let you do dirty work," she said while caressing my hair.

"I don't intend to," i closed my eyes. "Maybe I'll go to school. Maybe just go around learn on the job. I was told I have a good memory and analyzing skills."

"We should find you books to read," she pulled the blanket on us and covered. "Just about anything, till you find what you really like. And talk to people on the road. Evantually you'll find it. I'll help you out with weapons training. Your attacks are sloppy."

"You were spying on me while I was training?" I raised my head with a surprised face.

"Well, you look like a teenage boy who's trying to sweep leaves with a halberd too heavy for him, can't stop watching."

"And you tell me that now..."

She looked down, her eyes were full of regret. "I should've stopped you."

"I wouldn't listen. I didn't even listen to my brother. Stop worrying, everything will be fine."

She smiled. Then we slept. We could travel for a little bit, search who i really am. Then maybe I could take her home, to meet my brother. It would mean a lot if they liked her too. 

"You should use your hair long and down," she mumbled, before finally falling asleep.

That night, I started cutting my hair.

- R.W.

R.W. - Ered Luin

R.W. - Bree

I'm just sitting down and enjoying myself a really nice dark ale when I suddenly realised I have been on my own for the last 3 years. Time passed quick. I'm no longer the girl, standing in the porch with that slice of bread. I can take care of my own.

I'm Reiwynne Silver. I'm from Erodar, just 16 and yet on the roads, making my way in the life. I was raised by my mother. I never kenw my father, it seems he left us just before I was born. I also have a big brother, but he left us when I was just 6. He usually send us some money, yet I've never seen him ever since. Heard his name a lot though.

At my 13, after the blacksmith that takes care of us taught me some fighting tricks, I decided to get actual training, so I joined the local militia. I learnt the basics, did small jobs, got payed, sometime empties the additional supply crates. Those were hard times so they let anyone who's up for it join. After 3 years, I quit. I was already one of the best in the ranks and they had nothing left to teach me.

I made sure mother is fine and recieving money, then pack my stuff and hit the road. I travelled, I gambled. There were times I slep of the ground with no food. Yet, in the end, Lady Luck smiled at me and I won a ship. It wasn't something so big, yet it was ideal for swift cargo jobs. I assambled a small crew, started taking the jobs. That's when the eyes of the underworld were turned to me.

When you do your job good, everyone wants a piece of you. I left my crew with the ship, took only the poor Luke with me and travelled to Bree, with hopes of finding my brother. Since he was so well known, I figured he'd know who to work with, how to make easy money... Just plain cargo jobs didn't pay well and hardly worth the effort and the costs...

Then, I saw her. Redhead with nice shaped body. She reminded me of someone, so I approached. After a few tries i was stopped by someone unexpected; Reithar. It was a weird family reunion actually and ended up me bolting out of the place. It seems after meeting the redhead, Roxianne, brother left the underworld and started earning money in a more just way. He refused to help me. But I won't give up.

I have come this far. I know I can do more.

- ReiWynne Silver

Roxianne - Lone Lands 2

It's been fucking WEEKS we've been here. Actually two weeks but it's long enough for me. The Captain's been swinging me from a work to another I'm fucking fed up with it. I need some rest. I really do. Can't we just kick back for a day? Damn no we can't. Because there's so much shit to be done.

At least Gaufel started being fun. I sometimes throw a prick on him just to be fun, I've been doing this since the first day but he never answered me, now he does. I guess he's bored of me, well done, I'm sick of you too dumbass. But guess what, he's learning! Now he's looting the goblin corpses a LOT faster than I do. I wasn't gonna mention it actually, but yesterday, an elven lady joined us to help for a task. We were collecting stuff, and after a while, it appeared that Gaufel was getting all of them. I told him he has learnt well. He turned crazy, like "We've been running around together in weeks, there were bunch of stuff you should have learnt but you have taught me STEALING?!" I haven't been laughed for a while as I did that moment. What can I say? Appearantly, he had potential.

At least jumping on some goblins and half-orcs can sometimes be quite fun. When I'm extremely bored, I sneak in the middle of them just to drive Gaufel crazy, hahahahah. He doesn't want me dead, so it seems.

This shit will be done soon.

Roxianne - Lone Lands 1

The services brought me and of course fucking Gaufel along with me to the Lone Lands. When we had to go, he asked me if I had a horse. Of course I didn't have a horse, how the hell I could buy one? We're barely filling ourselves up. I don't have money to hire a carry to there, and I'm sure Gaufel wouldn't care to lend  me one too. So here's the deal. I told him I had one, at home. After we agreed on getting on the road at the next dawn, I followed him around for a while and, let's say borrowed some money from the man. I didn't want to walk all the way to the Forsaken Inn, and nothing in this fucking world can make me do. I bought a bloodbay horse, and she's so damn beautiful. I named her Dazzle. She seemed to like it. But, I'm gonna pay the man his money back. I really will. That wasn't necessary and I feel pretty much sorry for it. I can slip something to his bag. He's not gonna notice it too but, I don't care.

I visited home that night, to tell the kids I had to leave somewhere far away for a while. They must have missed me, they jumped right to my lap when I got in. Damn I missed them too. But they seemed to care more about Dazzle than I. They loved her so much, hugging and jumping around her, Nethuil tried to climb on her at a point but it made the horse uneasy so he fell, it was hilarious.

When I told them I was leaving, I thought I might get expressions of discomfort from them; so I thought about how I would tell them I must be gone. But instead of asking me not to go, they accepted the idea so fast it surprised me. They are getting grown up, I guess. But the most surprising thing is, Celoil told me it might even be great for me to see a new place and meet new people so I would have brand new tales to tell them when I'm back. I surely will have. Leaving them in the morning was surely difficult, but it had to be done. I've left some supplies I brought with me, also a note telling where I could be found so they can send me a word if anything comes up. I'm damn concerned about them, my feet didn't want to go at all but if I won't be done with this thing, more trouble may be waiting for us.

Gaufel seemed like he was aware of the lost money of his, he was concerned and suspicious. Fucking idiot. It wasn't even challenging to get my hands in his bag, sometimes I wonder how the fucking hell he managed to be a Captain. I acted like I didn't notice his concerned expression, he didn't ask me anything about it too so I think we're good. Anyways, this is how we got here, at the Lone Lands. We got some work to do around a place called Forsaken Inn. People here are so damn funny, there is a waitress who kicks the guys' balls with the way she talks, I was about to clap her at some point. I could stay and watch much more, but we had to go and deal with the shithead goblins camped around the area.

Roxianne - Community Service

It seems he really was the one who set me up, that flipping mercenary. No one ever bothered me like he does. People usually try to catch and beat me up but he has a unique way to get on my nerves. He sent some kind of fucking captain of the guards after me. Gaufel. But he didn't expect him to get drunk and pick up on me, I guess.  Now the flirty captain has a mark of my dagger on his face. I think it made him prettier, he might even have much more luck with ladies now but he seemed to get mad. He and the guards grabbed me from my hair so hard he nearly broke my neck. I had to cut my hair to get over his hold, good thing I've just sharpened my blades. Fucking shitheads. I liked my hair. I was growing them since I was a little kid, they were going to be just like mom's. And besides, I am helping, you know? Scars are fucking cool. Just don't tell that bitch that a cute girl like myself did it. Let it be a lynx. It is close enough to me. I'd love to leave more scars if needed.

Anyway, they wanted to lock me up once again, but whatever the hell happened in the court, it changed my punishment. I guess that ranger Strider had an effect somehow, probably because I helped him about getting some hobbits to safety. That's a damn long story I can't write down, I don't even want to think about it again. Imagining that black rider in front of me and the flames around is still giving me chills.

So instead of sitting in a cell sewing some shit, I am running around helping people and lazy little hobbits who can't even get up on their fucking asses to talk to each other, running errands and shit. They called it community service, I call it "Bullshit, you are so damn lazy you can't even do your fucking work yourself and I am doing it because I tried to slice a captain's face and got in a fight with a bunch of guards." but I have no right to say it out loud. But I must admit, some of them really need that assistance. And, more surprisingly, Gaufel is the watcher of my deed. I've heard he volunteered, that idiotic fucker wants more of me I guess. At least some of the folk I help give me some money so I still can send home some silver and food.

This will be done soon enough anyway. At least we are getting into some action.