Well... We have finally found him but.... It would seem that it took a turn for the bad. Let me explain of how it did.
With final preparations done, I went to go find Siofran and Sriva so we could leave. Of course, Siofran had been scolding at a vendor at the market about them having...bad arrows, I could say. We found Sriva at the stables. I guess she wasn't too fond of staying indoors with the building consisting of elves. I wouldn't blame her. I bet Dad would have been the same. Ghost was near my horse as well, ready to go.
We mounted our horses and went on our way. I had suggested that we should find somewhere so we could see if someone had seen Dem. We made our way out of Rivendell and towards Bruinen. We continued our way down the road where we could have gone to go to Eregion.
I saw what seems to be a small house beside the river and across the slope to Eregion. I led the others there in hopes of seeing if there should be any information of Dem. However, there was one rather peculiar thing that the fisherman by the name of Garbert there had said. He said that a tall, bearded naked man had gone by and so Garbert had lent them clothes. He pointed the direction where that supposed man had gone to, being the slope towards Eregion.
We rode there and across the wooden bridge. We found Dem close by the bridge but...something was rather odd. He had talked about waiting for someone by the name of Gambits in order to travel to Helm's Deep. Sriva said that it was some sort of a "Horse-lords Fortress." Then again, I don't think that Dem had ever mentioned of this "Gambits" person. The next thing he said, though, was when things got weird.
He said that Gambits was Arrygg's husband. That wasn't right at all. I heard that the one that Arrygg was married to was one of the name of Nimbi. However, things got worse. Dem didn't know who we were. It was clear that he somehow got amnesia and that is one of the reasons why he was naked.
I gave Dem the cloak in hopes of helping with his memory, Siofran having a drawing of Jaesper to show him. It was to no avail. I decided that it would be best for Dem to take his time of remembering things. We went back to Garbert's house and stayed there for the time being.
We had our supper and had talked. Sriva had gone off to patrol in case if anything would dare come nearby the house. After a while, Siofran had gone off to get athelas and to search for Eskleth.
I listened to Dem as he talked. It was not just regular amnesia to me. It would seem like several years of his life was just...gone. Like nothing during the time we knew him happened, him taken in by Miss Arrygg as a son, being with Jaesper, Miss Arrygg getting married to someone that's not Nimbi. Anything.
As he talked, I felt sad for him. He had gone through so much but didn't want to tell to several people other than those that he trusted fully. It was an entirely different Dem. My heart just breaks because of the thought.
So that's what happened. He went to go to bed. Despite of him thinking that it was bad for him to even be born and live, I gave him the consideration by thanking him for living because of being friends. I hope that he doesn't strain himself too much to remember everything all at once. I best turn in for now, too. I'll hum myself to sleep.... Get well soon, Dem.
