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Donovan murmured about what a pain it was before pulling both knife and arrow from the bodies. He used the clothes to clean the weapons before setting them aside and proceeding to strip the two of any valuable objects they might have. With those items in hand along with the weapons he head back.

He was glad to see the two had settled a bit, though food was always a good distractor. He handed back Celebor's arrow, cleaned though he was sure he hadn't been able to

"Yea, it'll give the kids a bit of time to recover," Donovan murmured back.

He paused for a moment watching the kids before glancing over at Celebor. Then he proceeded to put the things he had gathered away. It wasn't much, which would suggest it really was a spur of a moment sort of thing.

Donovan blinked before turning to the boy. Somewhat talking terms already, that was a good sign. Though he wondered what sort of question the boy had.

"Yes?" he inquired softly.

It took a while for Donovan to pick apart that sentence, but he found the question even harder. After all if Kara had been here she would have said not all humans were bad, but since the only good human around here seemed to be the ones that stayed at home it wasn't saying much.

"I'm not from around here," Donovan finally replied, "I come from a place very far away from the humans around here. Home is very different than here, that is why I am different."

Well that was putting it mildly.

Poor girl must be having a nervous break down Donovan thought, as if the crying before the slavers were killed didn't tip him off. He had to admit though he was impressed by the boy, kind of reminded him of Lin though in a way. Even though so far it had only been two questions.

Besides the boy had a point, and it was hard to explain without going into the whole other world concept which might confuse him.

"Because... where I come from," Donovan explained, "We don't speak same language as the humans here, and there are races living in my land that you have never seen before," he shrugged, "Our way of living is just very different from those humans."

The girl looked up at Celebor anxiously, but after a moment's contemplation, she nodded and ventured a small smile.

"Okay," she murmured, returning to her food.

The boy nodded in understanding and even braved a small grin. "Oh, so you're not from the Four Lands, huh," he commented. "That makes sense then. I didn't know there were humans in the other lands."

The boy nodded thoughtfully.

"Then you must have a strong magic," he said solemnly, "if you can come and go all the time."

After all, to travel across the ocean was ... well, unheard of, for the most part. Very rare. But to travel back and forth repeatedly? Never.


Just then the approach of a cart and horse could be heard, and a few moments later Celeborn appeared, coming along the bluff with the cart full of supplies.