"Normal speech"

'Thoughts'

Usuall, the breaks in text are for change of POV, butalso for time skips. I tried to make it clear every time.

'Does the woman actually believe I am an actor?' mused Kili 'Why would she? I didn't do anything to make her think so... well, let's try again, this may as well be my only chance to get help'

"I suppose we ran into a misunderstanding, I'm not an actor, why do you think I am, if I may ask?"

The lady seemed to sigh and rolled her eyes as if the situation was extremely annoying. Then Kili's eyes widened and he tightened his hold on the sword as a part of the thing (adding this to the seemingly endless list of questions) opened. 'This cannot be a living creature, there are many weird beings but being able to open a body is just too far. Nope, this must be a thing. I'd still have to find out why does it growl if it's not alive'

As the woman was stepping out of the strange thing, he noticed another girl behind her. They were similar in face, so he assumed they are sisters, even though the hair color was very different. But then, he couldn't say anything about that, after all, his brother was a blonde.

The lady stood in front of him (not too close to him, which he was glad for, at least he'll have time to notice if she was going to attack) and said "Fine, let's say you really need help. Who are you?"

'Do I say my name or not? Uncle said it's not good to give out my identity, especially as a prince. Anybody can be an assassin. But then, she doesn't seem to recognize me at all and I really need her to believe me to help me...' after a few moments that felt rather like an hour, he finally decided. He took a deep breath and sent a short silent prayer to Mahal to please do not let her be a bad person.

"I am Kili, son of Dis, of the line of Durin. At your service," he said with a bow, hoping he remembered all his manners.

As he stood in his full height again, he frowned as he noticed the female was actually not much taller than him, maybe only by one or two inches at most. Which was unusual, since she seemed to be a human.

"I am Samantha Clark. And I ask for your real name, not the character you want to be"

'Wait what? Just a few moments ago, she said...'

"I already said who I am. Now, can you point me to the Misty Mountains? Possibly the northern part of it? Or can you please just show me a map, that would be enough."

The woman seemed to hesitate a bit and he patted his pocked to assure himself that nothing disappeared.

"I have money," he added "I can give it to you, just please, I really need the direction"

She didn't answer immediately, but insted looked lost in thoughts. She looked him in his eyes, a piercing, searching gaze, and didn't move for the next few moments. Then as if something cracked inside of her, and she said out loud, but as if partly talking to herself "You really do look a bit lost, I admit that... how did you get there?"

"I-" Kili began, but then he stopped himself "you wouldn't believe me, even if I did tell you"

"Just tell me"

'I already told her my name, the name of my amad and which line I am from, I told her I have money, I am lost and I'm basically helpless, does it even matter if I tell her how I got there? She'll probably not believe me anyway...' he cleared his mind, tried to calm down and began talking as clearly as he could.

"I went to explore today's to-be-shelter with my brother and I got sucked into some black hole that suddenly appeared in front of me. My body flew through space and time I cannot describe. Then I woke up here, and you arrived"

"What in the Wattpad" muttered lady Clark, but he didn't hear it properly so he wasn't really sure of what the last word was supposed to be.

Sam really didn't think it was just an act. She is always the realist, even if she's an artist. One of the oddities she was proud of. And this confused her to no end. Kili is a fictional character. She's a realist. This was the forst time in her life she was actually thinking something like this could be real. No, it just couldn't be.

And yet, when she looked in his eyes, she saw no lie. She was a great judge of character and paid attention to all her additional psychology classes. She didn't see anything that indicated this man is a liar, or that he's pretending to be somebody else. Sam decided to trust him. He told her his story. It was very, very strange one, but again, he didn't sound as a liar.

'What in the Wattpad' she thought, and probably even said out loud, judging by the confused frown on Kili's face.

She sighed and motioned to her sister to lean closer to her.

"Nat, please call aunt and hand me the phone."

"No problem, I really think it's Kili, do you think the fanfiction stories can actually be true? I didn't think this was possible, but if he really is from middle earth, then he doesn't have corona. Can we take hi-"

"The phone" interrupted her Sam. Nat can ramble for hours if she is excited about something new and they really didn't need that right now.

"Kay, fine, I'm quiet now"

Sam turned to Kili again and told him "Please stay here and be quiet if you want help, I will try something"

As she had the phone in her hand, her aunt answered it: "Hi Nat, why are you calling me, something happened?"

"This is Sam, and yes, something happened- but nothing serious and we aren't injured or something." She added quickly, not wanting her aunt to worry.

"Great, I'm glad everything is fine. Then what is it?"

"Ummmm, you see, we have a really bizzare situation here... we are almost home and we saw somebody standing on the sidewalk. We talked to him for a bit-" "you talked to strangers?!" "-and he claims to be Kili. You know, from The Hobbit."

"And?"

"And... I studied his every move and used all the information I learned in my psychology classes to find out if he's lying, but... he's not. And I and Nat also just feel that he's not just pretending. I am 98% sure that this is actually the Kili."

"Sam, I thought you already grew up from this..."

"I did! But I promise, this is not a prank or a something I'm making up. Or something he's making up. No, as crazy as it sounds, this is real"

Her aunt sighed and fell into silence. After half a minute, she spoke up again

"Are you sure? I need to know this is not a prank"

Sam hesitated for a moment. She looked at Kili, and once again was met with a confused and lost expression. "Yes, I am sure"

"Okay, then continue and tell me why exactly you called me"

"He told us that he went to search the shelter for tonight when a black hole opened in front of him and it sucked him in, then he kind of appeared here. It sounded as if he found a portal. He insisted that he doesn't know where he is, he's lost and would be grateful for any kind of help. I called you to ask if we can take him home for the time being."

"So you're telling me that he wasn't lying"

"Yes"

Sure?"

"Totally"

"Okay, then take him here"

"Great, we'll be home in a moment"

Sam dismissed the call and sighed. A car drove past them and she heard Kili intake a sharp breath. She turned to him and saw that he was terrified. Of the car.

This is about to be complicated.