[I wish my name was Baggins]

My esteemed members of the senate...I return to you a beaten and broken Hobbit. My search has taken me across far lands, icy mountains, sweltering deserts and sadly my quest has been fruitless. I stand before you Legolas, as the leader of our Senate, and place my bloody sword and bow at your feet. I have pursued Paladins and thieves, Wizards and fools and my hands lay empty before you. I would gladly slay DragonShadow with my bare hands right here on the floor of the Senate but I will respect your decision that they shall not be touched until a conviction of guilty or a judgement of innocent. Legolas, I have always been a member of honor in this Senate and I respect you, this institution and my colleagues even those with whom I hold opposing views. Not least of these is Lord Brass, founder of KAK, to whom I owe my life. With this in mind how can the report of my captivity and the destruction of my dream go unpunished. Granted, the reports recieved by this esteemed body were from a simple newspaper but I am here before you today, my heart heavy with the burden of an unfufilled blood quest, to validate these newspaper stories. I was in fact held deep in the dungeons of the KAK and although this may have been the deeds of a splinter faction of that group it does not change the fact. It was Lord Brass himself who released me, pledging to me that he had no idea that I had been imprisoned. He gave me his word that he had come to release me the moment that he discovered my presence and I do not doubt his word. He saw me clothed and equipped and set me outside the compound where I immediately set out for my Kobolds in area 51. The description of the devastation that you read about in the news is a fair account of what happened and rage overtook me. Now I stand before you road weary and misery filled Hobbit who begs that this Senate sees justice done.