Dying is all about living first

Kili pawed the ground and lifted his muzzle to taste the air.

He was getting used to all the sences he could smell now. All the small noices he heared, the birds flying over or a mouse scurrying by.

This morning he caught a new smell. It was sweet, but he also smelled smoked meat.

The sence was still strong, wich meaned that what or whoever caried it was still close by.

He found the source of the sence not long after.

He stopped next to some dried bushes and saw that there was a little girl sleeping under them.

She was petit and looked fragile.

He bowed his head and nugged her stomage with his muzzle. She couldn't sleep here, orcs were still roaming the fields.

She waved her small hand at him, willing him away.

Kili huffed, he was a prince and he wouldn't be waved away like that.

He nugged her again.

This time she curled up on her side, trowing her tiny arms around his neck cuddeling against him. Kili sighed, this was no use. It was getting later and darker and the girl wasn't going to wake up anytime soon.

So he lay himself down, carefull, not to move her to much and wake her by accident.

Kili woke to a loud clang. He opened his eyes and saw that a big orc was picking through a heap of things left behind on the fields.

He looked down at the girl and saw that she aswell had woken up.

She desperaty clung to his fur, shaking slightly, her eyes open wide.

A low growl escaped him and he rose slowly, stepping over her, positioning himself between her and the orc.

The orc turned to him and a wicked grin grew over his face. He was tired of the day traveling and had gotten sick of eating whatever he could find. This big wolf would give him lots of meat and a nice warm blanket.

The orc lifted his sword, as if saying he had already won.

Kili bared his teeth, his hair bristled. He saw the orcs sword dip down a little, he could smell his confusion.

Kili growled, opening his mouth to show his canines.

He leaped, closing his jaws around the orcs head. He can hear their tiny neck snap under his teeth.

He bit through, feeling his teeth connect and lets go, letting the lifeless body fall to the ground.

He steps back, but didn't turn around. He didn't want to show the little girl what he did, how he let the animal inside him take over.

He tugs his ears agianst his neck and crouches low to the ground.

"How did I become this?" Even his voice feels unfamiliar to his mind.

"It is alright, my prince."

Kili's ears flick up, that soft voice, could it be.

"You-, you hear me?"

"I do, my prince, and I am not afraid of you."

Kili frowns. "How do you know what to call me."

The girl giggled. "We have already met my prince, and though I recognize you in your new form, you do not recognize me in my old one. But that is alright, it will come back to you, I'm sure. Now, I will introduce myself once more. My name is Nienna."

She skipped over to where he stood and flung herself around his neck, buring her face in his fur. "And we're going to go to Erebor together."

Nienna quickly gathered her cloak. "Come," she smiled. "the sun is rising, we can just start walking now. It is still a long way to the mountain."

Kili turned to her and the mountain. He let a sigh escape him as the familiar silhouette of the mountair called him. He could almost feel all that he longed for. The loud clangs from the mines. The heat of the fires in the forges. The glittering and sparkling of all the riches, the ugly stone on the outside hide from the world around it.

The mountain tugged and pulled at him, calling him home, telling him to hurry and come back to his people.

Kili skipped on his feet, excited. He threw back his head and howled. He didn't know why but he did. Long and low.

Fili shifted in his seat. On the other side of the desk Bilbo lowerd his quill and looked out the window. He smiled sadly at the ghostly sound.

"Did you know," he looked back at his paper. "that wolfs howl to locate each other when they are lost. "

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