Chapter 2: Lembas Bread
Pippin woke up with a sharp pain in his neck from sleeping on the ground. He sat up and looked around the cave they were in, He and Merry and Cirk had made it to the Misty Mountains and had found a cave to rest in for the night. He saw Merry sitting over by the entrance to the cave, looking out over the horizon.
"Haven't you had any sleep, Merry?" Pippin asked as he walked over to him.
Merry shook his head. Pippin noticed that lately Merry hadn't been his normal, cheerful self. His eyes looked bloodshot and his face looked somewhat pale.
"Merry, are you sure you're okay?" Pippin asked in concern.
Merry just sat there, silent.
"It's the Sword, isn't it?" Pippin asked.
Merry nodded, "It's getting heavier."
Pippin sighed, " I suppose that Cirk creature has run off again?"
"Yeah." Merry said, "Have we got any food left?"
"Let me see." Pippins said as he walked over and looked in his backpack, "We've got some Lembas bread. You hungry?"
"Yeah, toss me a peice." Merry answered.
Pippin broke off a piece of the Lembas bread and tossed it to Merry, who ate it hungrily.
"Sam was right; this Elvish stuff's not bad." Pippin said eating a peice himself.
Merry chuckled at this, "Nothing ever dampens your spirits, does it, Pip?"
Pippin smiled and continued to eat his Lembas bread. Just then, Cirk poked his head into the cave from over the entrance.
"Come, Hobbitsees, it be time to goes." Cirk said, jumping down to the cave floor.
"We just got up." Pippin said.
"No times to be waitses. Musts hurries." Cirk said.
Pippin sighed and got packed up and they continues on through the mountains.