What if everything I ever did was for nothing? What if everything I have gone through will end this way? What if...?
I lay there, my eyes were half closed. The battle cries around me were in a damped sound, as was my brother's voice. I slowly raised a hand to my chest and it went underneath the heavy armor for a moment. As I pulled back, I was holding a stone. A runestone. My mother gave it to me before we set out back then in the Blue Mountains. I held it tight and I uttered a little whimper and a tear ran down my cheek. Return to me. That was what was carved into the stone in dwarvish runes. My mother gave it to me. My hand was shaking as I held the stone up a bit to look closely at it. Would this be the end?, I asked myself. By now I would not hear a single sound anymore and the dizziness made me close my eyes.
With a gasp and big eyes I woke up suddenly and straightened my back to sit. I felt no pain. Heard no battle cries. Everything was quiet, despite a bird or two singing outside. The runestone my mother gave me was still in my hand. I looked around and to my surprise my brother, Fíli, sat next to the bed I was being placed on. And when I raised my head I saw my father.
Everything I ever did was for nothing. Everything I have gone through ended this way. And the worst of all was that I was not able to keep the promise I gave my mother.
