'Jean' looked up suddenly. He had been looking at the Elf-woman again. "Oh. I'm sorry. What I say rarely makes sense at all, and sometimes I do not understand myself. You asked why I was in the Shire? Well, I suppose it is sort of family:
I am going to visit my father. He is not really my father, but he raised me. I was orphaned at a young age. Then I am meeting my wife up north."
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