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The Talk

Reyna stands in the garden watching the moon. Tomorrow night is the night the group reads the map. She has talk to Elrond quite a few times in the last two days. He also might find a way to get home. "Does she want to go home? Her parents are gone and she has Bilbo to think about? She will most likely leave back to the world she was born in after Bilbo is gone."

"Reyna," calls out Bilbo. Reyna's ears flick in Bilbo's direction. A sign that she is listening. "How are you?"

"I am good. You?" asks Reyna.

"Good," answers Bilbo.

"I'm sorry for the way I acted in the stone passage. I fear for your life and turned it into angry at you," apologist Reyna. She then kneels down to Bilbo's height. "I should have never taken my angry out on you. It was not right."

"It is all right Reyna. I understand. But be even though feared for my life I hope you don't do anything too dangerous to save me. I can't bear to lose you either. You are my only daughter even if you are older than me," says Bilbo.

"My body can take a beating and pain more than you can. I heal a lot faster. I'm a three-quarter demon. I can take demon form. My wolf side will want me to protect you until my last breath. Nothing will happen to you if there is still life in my body," counters Reyna.

But you are also part human. Remember once a month you are human for the whole night," counters Bilbo.

"That is why I wear my silver cloak at night. It was from my mother to help me hide on my human night. Beside the red Robe of the Fire Rat from my father helps protect me. A demon like me doesn't need protection," counters Reyna.

Bilbo sighs and counters, "It not what I mean. You still don't trust the dwarfs or Gandalf enough. Not enough to let them know your secrets to help protect yourself. Everyone needs some type of protection. Even a demon like you. Your demon side may not need protection but your human side sure does. You walk around like nothing can hurt you. But I know that is not true. You feel like anybody else in this group. You just better at hiding your feelings then the others. You also hide what you are truly feeling through angry."

"You might be right Bilbo but I can't find myself to tell them. Not yet anyway. I will tell them one day. My father never wanted me to act like him before he mated my mother but I still became like him. I'm more like my father than you know Bilbo," says Reyna.

"It will be alright. Do you ready think some of the dwarfs will die?" asks Bilbo.

"It is hard to tell but with a journey like this will most likely kill some of them if not all of them to reclaim their old home. None of them know how to kill a dragon. Not even Gandalf or me. Killing a dragon is very hard. My grandfather died from his wounds when he went to save my father. He wounds where from a dragon demon. A dragon has very hard skin and very hard to penetrate. Most of the skin are impenetrable. A lot of people will die from the dragon," answers Reyna.

"That sounds very hard," mutters Bilbo.

"Let's get inside before you catch a cold," orders Reyna.

"You have been out here longer than me. If one of us is to catch a cold then you would be the one that is getting the cold," steams Bilbo.

"I'm a three-quarter demon. I can't get sick," counters Reyna.

"You say that now. But wait until I am waiting on you hand and foot because you got a cold," teases Bilbo. Both laugh while they walk into the house. Tomorrow night is going to be a big night.

The next morning Reyna walks through the garden. She soon comes across Elrond who is enjoying the quietest of the garden.

"Taking a walk to get away from all the noise the dwarfs are making?" asks Elrond.

"Yes. Are you doing the same?" asks Reyna.

"Yes," answers Elrond.

"They keep playing their musical instruments. It would be found but they keep playing some of the songs over and over. They are also playing very loud. Too loud for my ears. But Bilbo is loving it" says Reyna.

Elrond nods and asks, "Can you play an instrument?"

"Yes. I play an ocarina. My father made it for my mother. She was the one who taught me to play," answers Reyna.

Elrond nods and says, "I have a way for you to get back to your world."

Reyna's silver eyes become distant but she says, "Not now. I have to be here for Bilbo."

"How about after the journey?" Elrond asks.

"No. Maybe after Bilbo's death. I will be with him as long as he lives and wants me around," answers Reyna.

"And if it takes another sixty years?" asks Elrond.

"Yes. I would stay even for a hundred years," answers Reyna. Elrond and Reyna both bid each other goodbye. Reyna walks back to the sitting where the rest of the group is. The dwarfs are still playing their songs. "Why do they have to play them so loud?" Kili makes a loud noise with his instrument right in Reyna's ear. Reyna snarls and rips it out of Kili's hands. That ruins the song. All the dwarfs stop and stare at Reyna who has Kili's instrument in a tight grip.

"What was that for?" asks Kili.

Reyna glares and answers, "For playing so loudly in my ear. They are not for show. My hearing is better than yours. As good as or better than the elves."

Bilbo jumps up and says, "Reyna can play too. Why don't you show them how well you can play Reyna?" Reyna nods her head and pulls out her ocarina to play. She plays the song her mother would play all the time. The song shows she is part of the Silver Wolf Clan.

"Wow. That is good," says Fili once the song is over. All the dwarfs and Gandalf agree with Fili.

Gandalf breaks the silence, "It is time to read the map."

Reyna follows behind and thinks, "Time to continue the journey. But we are bound to lose someone. Journeys like these don't end without someone dying."