She walked down the path, her horse at her side. She krept along the trees. She could have sworn she heard something, and wanted to know why in heavens would it be all the way out here. It might be another elf, like herslef, or maybe a dwarf. She stopped and listend, then heard soemthing. She jumped on her horse, wehich was quite a task, seeing as she, quinivere, was twice as tall as the other horses. She raced inbetween the trees, but couldn't find it. She jumped off her horse, after stopping, and decided not to sneak up on it. They were near Bree, and the hting probably wasn't dangerous. "Hello, hail and well met! Who are you, my fellow traveler?" She waited for a reply.

"Howdie, she-elf" replied Jeremy the dwarf, as he stepped towards her. "What brings you into my home?"
The dwarf continued towards her, holding his spade with both hands, ready to hit her if she became hostile towards him. "What do you want?"
Then Jeremy noticed her large horse, and took a few steps back, tripping over on a root...

"Take no haste, little one." She scanned him over, and rested her hands on her hips. "Though, i doubt you are any younger htan me." She sat down, and beckoned for guinivere to do the same, seeing his fear. "COme sit. I had no clue that this was your dwelling. What are you living here for, do you not know of the danger that may lurk in these deadly shadows?" SHe smiled, trying to ease his worry.

"I live in a cave in that hill over yonder, but this is still my territory" Jeremy said as he pulled himself up into a sitting position. "I can't go back to live with the other dwarves, you see, they rejected me, so I broughtmy family out here to live, the shadow never came here before, but now it's everywhere, we can't escape it anymore."

"Well, what has plagued you? why must you be shunned?" She began to gather fire woord, and took off her cloak. SHe word a triangular no strapped shirt, and her skirt. It could have been counted as a loin cloth, htough it went all the way down to her ankles, and the slits went all the way up to her hips. The sun was risning now, nad the birds began to sing. "HOw about i cook breakfast. WHat would you like to eat?" She smiled at him, as she started the fire.

"Sausages!
The reason I was rejected was that I comitted theft, my family were starving, so I stole food to keep us alive, then someone found out, and told the King, he tried to take my family away, saying that I was an unfit father, so I killed him, they tried to kill me, but we escaped, we've benn out here for three years, it's very lonely.
Anyway, she-elf, why are you here, please tell me, and perhaps I can help you on your little quest, and take you to meet my family." Explained Jeremy after finding himself a log to sit on.

She smiled. "No, i'm not on a quest. I am actually just wondering around. I've been doing this for quite some time, and i love it. I settled down when i was just barely being and adult elf, but i opened a bar, and all the stories i've heard! One day, i just woke up and decided to catch up on all the things ive been missing." SHe put a pot over the fire, and added several things to it. "I would love to meet your family, though. If you want, i could fetch them, and bring them here to eat with us. I'd be much faster on my horse than you on you legs."

"No. I don't think they would want to come out here, they are afraid," Jeremy explained, before finding out the hard way that his log was rotten and hollow.
"I think I should take you to meet them when we've eaten, if that's alright. I know where some lovely mushrooms grow, shall I fetch us some?" Asked the little dwarf as he got himself up from the pile of rotten wood.

A hooded figure sat in the tree above them, quietly listening.