Persus smiled and nodded. "I understand your misgivings and mistrust. As for how I know of the Hobbits and the Shire, it is because I have been there, though it was a long time ago with my parents. I found them quite friendly and with more common sense then anyone I had ever met." He looked at the two smiling. Then he looked at Allassiel and Pegawen. "You are from the West and have come through a perilous land to get here. My Parents made that journey to the west a very long time ago, and I was born there, and some what raised there. I can understand your mistrust, as I know what happened there and how the Wizard Saruman betrayed everyone. He shook his head. But he paid for what he did. "<br/><br/>"You have been to the West?" Lotharn asked. He tried to remember if he had ever seen an Elf woman with a child like him. He was not a true elf, but perhaps Half Elf and Half Human.<br/><br/>The young man chuckled. "Yes and I see your are confused about my appearance. Yes I am only Half Elven." he told them. "My mother took me to see Rivendale, the Misty Woods. and I met one there, Galadreiel and another Elrond. Both powerful Elves. Though a child I listened to them talk for long hours, as I played. But I assure you, My Master is not like Saruman. If any wizard he is compared to, I would say there was one back in the West, one called Gandalf that he would be compared to. My Parents and I came back here shortly after the fall of Saroun. That is when I became Balazor's apprentice.<br/><br/>"What of your parents?" Thorgan asked.<br/><br/>"They live close by to the old wizard's tower. A modest cottage with a garden and a cold stream running close by." He leaned on his staff and looked at them all.<br/><br/>Timberlane looked at Allassiel and Pegawen. "I know of this Balazor, though I never met him since he was way before my time. But from what I have heard of him, he can be trusted. One must take the first step to trust someone. "<br/><br/>Thorgan took one of Allassiel's hands, "Timberlane is right. But we will be wary just the same. After all we do have our own Wizard here."