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055: Crime
Dori joins Thorin's Company.
Dori hates that Nori leads a life of crime.
Dori is no fool: he knows exactly how it goes. Nori insists that he's clean, and for a few weeks, Dori can sleep at night.
Then little things start showing up around the house.
At first it's petty thievery, and Dori can maybe ignore it, but then Nori's nights get later and he's hiding bruises and boxes of things under the beds and Dori, you didn't see this –
And then Dwalin, captain of the guard, is knocking on their door.
Dori hates that for every bit of respectable dwarf he is, managing his weaver's workshop and keeping his nose clean, Nori's out sullying the shreds of their family's reputation. He hates that Ori has to see the consequences.
He is loath that such is their ill repute that Thorin approaches them with his Quest.
Because Dori is fairly certain that stealing from a dragon who stole from you is still crime.
But he can't refuse Thorin Oakenshield. His family are still Durins, if only on the wrong side of the sheets.
So Dori closes his shop, dons his dark cloak, and prays Ori will be a better dwarf than them both.
