div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"With a loud thud and the clang of a latch, Thorin barred himself inside his chambers. Fear, real fear, crept into his gut. He'd not been this fearful even against the mighty Azog as he fought for his very life upon the frozen river five years ago. "What have I done? I haven't been completely honest with her about the state of affairs in my Kingdom. She assumes that it is up and running, like hers. She will not have me if she sees this shambles. She will know right away that it is Ered Mithrin that will have to carry Erebor. My Kingdom will not be able to reciprocate for some time. Great pressure will be put on her to decline this proposed Union, perhaps rightfully so. Love is not reason enough to burden her Kingdom with the sorrows of mine." /span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"Thorin slumped down on his bed, holding his head in his hands. 'Mahal, you made this so easy up until now. Oooh, how will I pull together in only a few weeks, what hasn't been reparable in five years?" He sighed deeply and lay back on his bed, searching for any source of inspiration. He reached towards the nightstand and picked up the puzzle box Heloise had given him. Flipping it over and over, he ran his coarse fingers over its seemingly smooth surface until he felt a slight snag, a coarseness across the bottom of the box. /span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"A/N: This is a really fun chapter! Please visit www dot thequeenoferedmithrin dot blogspot dot com for the rest! Cheers!/span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;" /div
div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"Thorin slumped down on his bed, holding his head in his hands. 'Mahal, you made this so easy up until now. Oooh, how will I pull together in only a few weeks, what hasn't been reparable in five years?" He sighed deeply and lay back on his bed, searching for any source of inspiration. He reached towards the nightstand and picked up the puzzle box Heloise had given him. Flipping it over and over, he ran his coarse fingers over its seemingly smooth surface until he felt a slight snag, a coarseness across the bottom of the box. /span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"A/N: This is a really fun chapter! Please visit www dot thequeenoferedmithrin dot blogspot dot com for the rest! Cheers!/span/div
