Merwra hugged Kili, for the first time in her life she felt loved back,it was the best feeling in the world,but also her weakness: she always cared too much for the people who didn't care for her,always giving her love to someone,without wanting anything back except acceptance and love,but her feelings were always ignored by the men she loved once.

But Kili was not a man.

She loved Kili since that night in the woods,when he gave his ring to her.

But she was too afraid of breaking her heart again,afraid of what her parents would think about it,and of what the other dwarves would think,especially Thorin.

A crack begun to run through the dark ground of the cave,interrupting Merwra's thoughts.

"Wake up!" Thorin shouted scared.

It was a trap.

Some of the dwarves that were still waking up were swallowed by the crack,that was getting bigger. Before they could run, Merwra ,Bilbo and all the others fell on the trap,slipping in the walls of a dark cave, into the very heart of that mountain.

When they finally hit the ground they saw a kind of city: there were small huts made of small twigs, torches illuminating the highest they could,with their light reveling more huts,stacked in the walls of the mountain, like parasites on a tree,trying to survive in the best way they were also pecrarious bridges linking the gorges,ladders of all sizes connecting platforms. And all that was a goblin town.

"Get back!" Thorin demanded as goblins were getting closer,curious about what fell on their trap.

Merwra quickly begun to run her fingers through the dark beads of her bracelet until finding one with a goblin carved on it; she took a last look in one of them and closed her eyes, mentalizing that disgusting creature.

As she opened her eyes she looked at her skin, it was pale and disgusting, wet and greasy, her legs were small and not proportional to her body, her head forced her back,letting her hump.

Merwra poked Kili's leg."Kili!" she whispered,trying to get his attention.

"Get your filthy hands out of me!" he demanded pointing his sword at her. "Shh, it's me Kili!",Merwra said trying not draw the attention to them.

"I have a plan,trust me." She said while trying to blend in with the other goblins.

"What are they?" some of the goblins asked curiously.

"Get away!" Thorin said once more, Merwra winked at him, she wasn't sure if he understood the sign or not.

"They're dwarves, I'm going to get them out, it was a mistake, where is the nearest exit by the way?" Merwra asked,trying to trick them.

"The Great Goblin doesn't need to see them before?" One of them asked

"No, everything is fine" She said nervously,she just noticed now that Gandalf wasn't there and neither was Bilbo.

"We should take them to him" the goblin insisted, she needed another plan;fast.

She followed the others through a sequence of narrow ladders, that lead to a kind of platform and to more ladders,finally arriving to a big platform, in the middle of it there was a giant,disgusting and revolting goblin.

"Who would be so bold as to come armed into my kingdom? Spies? Thieves? Assassins?" The Great Goblin said excited.

"Just dwarves, Your…." Merwra was trying to find the adequate word to call him "magnanimous" she said bowing to him." I prefer malevolence, or king" he said with his pitched voice, inadequate for the size of his body. "I need a crown,I know, but all this peasants just can't find one big enough to fit in my head! What kind of king doesn't have a crown?I need a crown! If you say that I'm magnanimous now honey, you should see me in a crown" he said with an almost singing voice, pointing at something in his head, Merwra thought that it was a part of his body,but actually it was a kind of a crown that was too tight for him,almost looking like a tiara.

"Right," She said interrupting him "It was a mistake,I'll lead them with the others to the exit"

" Wait!" he shouted pointing at Thorin with what looked like a scepter."Well, well, well, look who it is... Thorin, son of Thráin, son of Thrór. King under the mountain... You could get a crown for me!… Oh, but I'm forgetting, you don't have a mountain. And you're not a king. Which makes you... Nobody, really"

"I'll show them the way now" she insisted,her plan and disguise were falling apart.

"No you won't!" The Goblin said with a singing voice. "I know someone who would pay a pretty price for his head" he pointed at Thorin again." An old enemy of yours. A pale Orc astride a white warg…"

"Azog the Defiler was destroyed. He was slain in battle long ago!" Said Thorin,trying to let go from the goblins that were holding him.

"So you think his defiling days are done, do you? Send word to the pale Orc. Tell him I have found his prize!" The Goblin King said to Merwra,she didn't know what to do,should she attack him and compromise her plan or obey him?

"Actually, I think that you can say that yourself to him." Merwra said picking up her sword.

"How dare you!?" He said getting up "Step aside!" the goblin said hitting Merwra with his scepter.

A white light emerged from the darkness violently, blinding them, Merwra tried to cover her eyes,but she needed to know what it light was too strong,but she didn't give up, she stared at it and saw a man with a pointing hat. It had to be him,she knew it was him;Gandalf.

"NOW!" Gandalf shouted.