[Amanaduial the archer]

Another elf gone...Middle Earth is losing the First Born so fast... Looking away from 'Huntress', Aman smiled after Esgalhugwen as she left through the Inn door, taking the same path that Aman had seen many take since she came, never to return. Sighing, she looked back to another of the fair folk, the bard's wife, who was presenting rather a problem in front of her.

Aman raised an eyebrow at the woman who called herself 'Huntress', seeing the woman's eyes twinkle rogueishly.

"No coin to pay, hmm?" Aman fixed the woman with a steady look, and even this mischievious looking elf squirmed slightly, then patted where pockets might be on her trousers before smiling ruefully.

"I jest not, Aman. I...I haven't been to an Inn for a while." A faraway look came into Huntress's eyes once more, and Aman saw the familiar echoes of memory and regret come into them. Familiar because in the the time she had been at the Inn, she had seen so many with the same melancholy looks. Why was it such a simple, hobbit Inn came to attract so many who at the same time wished to and dreaded forgetting their pasts. Maybe it was simply the fact it was a simple hobbit Inn, so set apart from the outside world...

The Innkeeper shook herself out of her reverie and at the same time the Huntress did the same, and set on Aman a gaze of her own, silently inquiring. The Innkeeper smiled quite as mysteriously as the elf had done before, not referring to what she herself had been thinking of. "No money to pay...dear me, now I could throw you out into the road..."

A gasp rose from the onlookers around, some in earnest, some mocking, knowing full well that this Innkeeper would do nothing of the sort.

"..., leave you to wander to Bree and try to take in Butterbur..."

Some of the little gullible hobbits were looking a little worried now. Who knew how the ways of the Big Folk worked...? But Huntress still watched her, her eyes twinkling with silent laughter, the hint of a smile at her lips.

Aman paused, then smiled suddenly. "Or we could ask for a little help around this evening and tomorrow...and a song? What do you say?"

The elf threw back her head a laughed, her curls bouncing around her shoulders, before she looked the Innkeeper in the eye. "Ah, now I ask myself would I rather be thrown out in the street!" She smiled. "With pleasure, Aman. But let a girl finish her drink?"

The Innkeeper nodded her consent, returning the smile, then turned to another who had come to the bar, a man whose name she did not know but who she recognised from the night before, and if it wasn't the evening, she would suspect he had only just woken up...

"Innkeeper, I would like whatever is served best here, I dont care what it is...just as long as it is steaming and good."

"Good? This is the Dragon, sir, would it be anything else?" Aman smiled with both her lips and eyes. The elf man rolled his eyes, hitting his forehead lightly with his palm.

"My mistake, Aman, I'm sure!"

The Innkeeper returned his smile, and inclined her head. "I'll see what I can do. A drink in the meantime?"

He consented, and Aman fixed him that part of the order, before raising her eyebrows once more at Huntress and murmuring 'a performance, yes?', and slipping away into the kitchen

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OCC: Nowhere near enough, I know, considering my absense. I am terribly sorry for my absense of late, I've been very busy with various events with school, and I regret to say I'll be away for another week. Play my character how you will, within reason, and I will be back with you next Sunday. Sorry again [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]