wanted to repeat his earlier curse. How was I supposed to do anything like this?! Freaking aye, I was now officially useless.

Fudge.

The man was speaking again and after my internal panic, I registered what he had said. That he was going to splint it. He rose and walked around the clearing, after a bit he returned with some very straight twigs. He knelt again and pulling some cloth over it. He began wrapping it around both my ankle and the twigs. It was tight, painfully so, but he worked quickly and after he was done wrapping, the sharp pain faded to a dull ache.

I tried to stand but he stopped me, picking me up and carrying me closer to the ashes of his fire. He spoke again, "Whatstill loved it.

*Dúnedain (singular: Dúnadan) were the Men who descended from the Númenóreans who survived the fall of their island kingdom and came to Eriador in Middle-earth. After the fall of Arnor and then Arthedain, some of the northern Dúnedain became the Rangers of the North in Evendim. The Rangers of the North, also known as Watchers or simply Rangers, were the last remnant of the Dúnedain who had once populated the Northern-kingdom of Arnor.

Gandalf thinks that Solreen [Laura] is a daughter of one of those rangers. He is also not all that surprised at her age, because 'direct descendants of the Dúnedain are known to live longer than normal Men. It is said that Dúnedain live three times longer than normal Men; that would translate into 240