"Kili, Fili, check that cave for any traps! And don't take too long, the company is tired."
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The cave was pretty small actually. Big enough to fit the whole company comfortably but not more than that. They didn't find anything that indicated the cave was a trap (thank Mahal they didn't, nobody wanted to repeat yesterday's scenario) but Kili still couldn't shake the feeling that something bad is about to happen.
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Then he heard his brother laugh and realised that he had voiced his thoughts out loud.
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"Oh, come on," Fili chuckled. "We checked everything a hundred times better than the last time. Not that there is much to check anyway. This is not even a cave, more like a hole, really. And I even checked the floor. I hope you don't believe we have so much bad luck that something like falling somewhere through the ground can happen twice in a row," Kili cringed at the thought. He had quite a few bruises "Aaand go check the back, I already checked it once but I don't want to give uncle a reason to blame us if anything happened. Double check should be enough."
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Kili still didn't feel reassured but tried to ignore it and went there as his brother told him.
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He didn't even make ten steps when a black hole appeared right in front of him. It was sudden, he had no way of knowing something like this was about to appear right in front of his nose. His eyes widdened and as soon as he was not frozen in the spot with shock, he turned and sprinted in the opposite direction. Fili did the same. He ran out of the cave and slowed down a bit when he noticed that the black... whatever it was, didn't get any bigger.
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"Well, Kili, uncle is probably going to kill us, you know how angry he behaves when he is concerned" says the still-breathless Fili.
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"Come on, it was not that bad, and if I knew this would happen, I wouldn't send you there"
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"Kili..."
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"...KILI?!!"