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;""Gloin, we are ready." Thorin stood in Gloin's doorway dressed in his royal best: long, black velvet coat lined with grey wolf fur, several layers of fine brocade underneath, his raven belt and crown. His hair was freshly cleaned and braided and his beard newly trimmed. "And bring Oin, Balin and Dwalin as witnesses…and please, be discreet." /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;""Right away, Thorin." Gloin gathered his finest quills, ink jars and the rolled-up marriage contact and made his way to the King's Office./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;" /span/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;"The King's Office was just off to the right of his Royal Chambers. It had a balcony with a large leaded-glass window streaming the late-afternoon light in. Thorin, Gloin, Oin, Balin Dwalin all stood at attention behind the grand mahogany desk when a knock was heard at the door. /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;""Enter!" Thorin bellowed./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;"The door creaked open, revealing Queen Heloise in a multi-layered cream gown dotted with bits of diamond and emerald all around the bodice. Her skirts, made of the finest silks, bustled as she entered and approached the desk. Her face was stern as she nodded to each of Thorin's witnesses. She splayed her skirts out as she bowed in a deep courtesy before Thorin. /spanbr /a name="more"/a/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;"br /spanspan style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"Thorin, in turn, put his hand to his heart and bowed deeply to her. Then, he said, "My Queen Heloise of Ered Mithrin, have you witnesses and contract to negotiate?" /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;" /span/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;""Right away, Thorin." Gloin gathered his finest quills, ink jars and the rolled-up marriage contact and made his way to the King's Office./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;" /span/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;"The King's Office was just off to the right of his Royal Chambers. It had a balcony with a large leaded-glass window streaming the late-afternoon light in. Thorin, Gloin, Oin, Balin Dwalin all stood at attention behind the grand mahogany desk when a knock was heard at the door. /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;""Enter!" Thorin bellowed./span/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;" /span/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;"The door creaked open, revealing Queen Heloise in a multi-layered cream gown dotted with bits of diamond and emerald all around the bodice. Her skirts, made of the finest silks, bustled as she entered and approached the desk. Her face was stern as she nodded to each of Thorin's witnesses. She splayed her skirts out as she bowed in a deep courtesy before Thorin. /spanbr /a name="more"/a/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;"br /spanspan style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"Thorin, in turn, put his hand to his heart and bowed deeply to her. Then, he said, "My Queen Heloise of Ered Mithrin, have you witnesses and contract to negotiate?" /span/div
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