Morning came with the chirping of birds filling the air and the warm light of the sun making its way through the upper branches of the trees to light up the small clearing that they had set camp up in. Thorgan awoke and got to his feet looking over at Allassiel. He was afraid she may have tried to take off on them as she seemed she wanted to face the monster of an Orc herself. That was something he was not going to allow to happen. He looked over at Timberlane who rose from his bedroll and stretched. Lotharn and Pegawen rose, with Lotharn giving her a kiss. Flagdon was the last to get up. he Stretched and moved his shoulders about. "Well now that was a peaceful sleep I must say."<br/><br/>Off in the distance came voices. "I did not."<br/><br/>"Yes you did." another voice said.<br/><br/>"It is not my fault." the first voice said<br/><br/>"I beg to disagree with that." the second one said as the voices got closer.<br/><br/>"You were the one that found that infernal wand." The first said.<br/><br/>"But it was you that just had to read what was on that piece of parchment while holding it." The second voice said.<br/><br/>"Well what ever and who ever's fault it is, where are we?" the First voice asked.<br/><br/>That is wen the pair stumbled into the camp and stopped dead in their tracks as they saw the elves, a dwarf and two humans standing there. Their eyes went wide and their mouths dropped. Both were young, had a mop of hair on their heads that seemed needed to be combed badly, were barefood and had tuffs of hair on the top of their feet. They were dressed in what appeared to be a shirt, vest, and short pants and leather shoes. But they were not the only ones that were shocked and a bit stunned. Lotheran looked at the pair and he swore to himself they looked like Merry and Pippen Took.<br/><br/>"Elves?" the one that looked like Merry and sounded like him as well asked.<br/><br/>"Well of course they'er elves." the one that looked like Pippen said. "But that can not be, they all left."<br/><br/>"Well evidently Not!" The Merry look alike said with an attitude.<br/><br/>Lotharn looked at the two and chuckled. "Well yes we are elves and yes they all left from Rivendale and the Greenwood and such But we are not there, we are here to the east, and who are you Master Hobbits."<br/><br/>"I am Merry Took the Second, and this is my Cousin Pippen Took the Second." Merry said.<br/><br/>Lotharn laughed at this and he could see the confusion in Timberlane's, Flagdon's and Thorgan's faces. "These gentle but arugmentive ones are Hobbits, from the Shire I am guessing, far to the west of here." he turned to the two Hobbits. "And you two, are far to the East of what you knew was Murkwood, and well past the Lonely Mountain, and there be many more elves and dwarfs here"<br/><br/>Timberlane cleared his throat, and that reminded him of Gandalf. "Now what is this talk about a wand?" he looked sternly at the two Hobbits. "Messing around with magic is something one does not do lightly." he held out his hand and Merry, shyly pulled it from his vest pocket and handed it to Timberlane.