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I just want to inform you, that Rin speaks more like the race of men would than a dwarf. She has lived so long with them so it kind of left as a habit.
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It wasn't pretty, when Rin was dragged back to the little man's home. Of course she tried to get away again, but the dwarves had learned their lesson. It was like she was a dangerous criminal!
"Let go of me! I can walk just fine by myself!" she hissed at both Thorin and... Dwalin was it? Whatever.
"Apparently you can't! I can't believe you! Your just making things worse for yourself!" Thorin growled right back. She looked away angrily.
Why did she have to get caught? Oh, that's right! Because of Gandalf! He was the reason why she was here in the first place. And now when she tried to get away, he was the one who got her down from the tree. Right now, she owed him nothing!
"Bilbo! Open the door!" Kili shouted. They had (finally) reached the little man's or apparently 'Bilbo's' home. Bilbo opened the door and she saw him looking at her curiosly. Then she was pushed inside.
"Lock the door so she doesn't try to escape again." Thorin said, leading her along the hallway to a room with a long table.
The dwarves gathered around it after Thorin situated himself in the end of the table, bringing Rin to sit in his right side. Great...
"What?! Can't I just go?" she inquired and looked at Gandalf who was opposite her, "If you even think, I'm going to go on this adventure anymore, your greatly mistaken."
Gandalf went to answer but Kili beat to him, "And if you even think, we're just going to let you go after we finally found you, your greatly mistaken." they then had a staring contest .
"Enough!", Thorin shouted, "Gandalf, please continue on what you were saying before this happened." Rin rolled her eyes.
"Yes. As I was saying before, I have something for you." he said, taking a key from his pocket. Thorin stared at it in awe, eyes wide.
"How did you come by this?"
"It was given to me by your father, by Thrain., for safe-keeping. It is yours now." handing the key to Thorin. Rin didn't even now what they were going to do. Why did they need a key?
"If there is a key," Fili started, "There must be a door."
...Really Fili?!
"These ruins speak of a lower passage way in the lower halls." Gandalf said while pointing at the map.
"There's another way in!" Kili exclaimed.
Wow, her cousins didn't get any brighter while she was gone.
"Well, if we can find it," the white haired dwarf, Balin?, stated, "dwarf doors are invisible when closed."
"The answer is hidden somewhere in this map and I do not have the skill to find it. But there are others who can," Gandalf says, "The task I have in mind will require a great amount of stealth and no small amount of courage. But if we are careful and clever, it can be done."
"That's why we need a burglar!" some young looking dwarf pipes up. Well Rin doesn't excatly have the right to say that... She is just 55-years old...
"Hmm... And good one too, an expert I'd imagine." Bilbo says, looking at the map. The dwarves look at him expectantly.
"And are you?" someone asks. Bilbo looks at them startled,
"Am I what?"
"He said he's an expert!" someone with a trumpet thing in his ear thriumps happily. The dwarves laugh.
"Me? No, no, no," Bilbo stutters, looking horrified, "No! I'm not a burglar! I've never stolen a thing in my life!" Well, I have, Rin thinks while watching the scene quietly. What's going on?
"I'm afraid, I have to agree with Mr. Baggins," the old dwarf speaks, "He's hardly burglar material." At this Bilbo nods happily with him.
"Aye. The wild is no place for gentle folk, who can neither fight nor fend themselves." Dwalin intervenes. The dwarves start to loudly agree or disagree with him and it's a chaos. Then Gandalf stands up and the room darkens,
"ENOUGH! If I say Bilbo Baggins is a burglar, then a burglar he is," everyone becomes quiet and sits down if they were standing, "Hobbits are remarkably light on their feet. In fact, they can pass unseen by most if they choose," Gandalf sits down again, the light on the room coming back, "And while the dragon is accustomed to the smell of dwarf, hobbit is all but unknown to him which gives us a distinct advantage!"
A hobbit huh? Never heard of them... Wait a minute... A dragon?! What is this adventure about?!
Thorin and Gandalf stare each other for a second and then Thorin says, "Fine. We're doing this your way. Balin, give them the contract." ...Them?
"Thorin. I'm not going on this adventure of yours if you meant by 'them' me and Bilbo."
Thorin turns to her, "Rin. I have no choice. I'm not going to let you leave us again. By coming to this quest is how we can watch you. Your so young... I'm not going to let you go alone. And that's final."
"I don't even know what we're going to do on this 'quest'!"
"We're going to claim back Erebor from Smaug."
"... WHAT?! That's what the dragon meant? Smaug?! It's a suicide mission!" she yells angrily.
There's no way thirteen dwarves, a hobbit and a wizard can claim it back! Thirteen, because she is NOT coming!
"It is NOT a suicide mission!," Thorin yells right back at her, "Your going, so I suggest you start preparing. The door is locked so don't even try to escape again. We leave early in the morning." and with that, he's gone.
Unbelievable... Unbelievable!
"I need food!" Rin finally shouts and angrily makes her way to find some, even steps over unconscious Bilbo, who just fainted for some reason. Everyone else just stares after her.
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