Forest Rescue Chapter 4
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"Don't blame me, I'm just a mushroom!" Pippin said, telling his joke to Slim-birch and Merry.
"That didn't make any sense," Merry remarks.
"Indeed, why would a mushroom be speaking in then common tongue?"
"It's a joke. It's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to be funny," Pippin groans.
"But why is a mushroom speaking in the common tongue?"
"It's a joke, and in a joke anything can be speaking any language," Pippin answers.
"Why?"
"Ugh! I don't know WHY, that's just how it is!" Pippin says, starting to get irked.
"I would think a joke should make sense."
"AHH!" Pippin screams in frustration, failing to get his point across to her.
"So, how did you end up in the Shire?" Merry asks.
"The Shire?"
"The place where we live," Merry responds.
"When I arrived it was nothing more than a vast expanse of hill covered terrain."
"Oh my, that must have been a very long time ago," says Pippin in awe.
"I was half asleep at the time, and for a while I dreamed that little creatures were clambering about in my branches, but I was to exhausted to bother trying to get them out."
"LOOK OUT!"
"KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN AND ON THE ROAD!"
"WATCH OUT FOR THE- - -!"
"AHH!"
Splash
"river."
"GREAT! Just PERFECT! Now I'm soaking wet!"
"River? What river?"
"The one you just walked through."
"Sorry."
"UHH!"
"Which way do we go now?"
"YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET TO FANGORN FOREST?!" both hobbits say in shock.
"I forgot. It has been so long since I last went to Fangorn Forest."
"UGH!" Pippin groans.
"We should head south along the road," Merry says, "he might still be at Isengard."
"Why would Treebeard be at Isengard?"
"We'll tell you on the way there," Pippin says, "now can we please GO!"
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"Go!"
"Hurry up, you lousy insect!"
"I'm going to win!" Pippin declares triumphantly.
SQUISH!
"Hey, you cheated! You squished my ant! That's not very nice Merry, what did that ant ever do to you?" Pippin complains.
"Ugh! It's just an ant!" Merry responds.
"Just an ant! It was my ant and it would have won if you hadn't squished it!" Pippin whines.
"ARGH!"
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"I'm hungry," Pippin moans.
"You just ate."
"We haven't eaten for HOURS," Pippin complains.
"Oh, quit your obsessive whining, you're making ME hungry," Merry grumbles.
"But if I don't eat soon I'm going to wither away!" Pippin whines, and then he pretends dramatically to faint.
They agree to stop for a quick snack. That quick snack quickly turns into a long meal.
After they finish eating, they start traveling again. Slim-birch started humming and then singing. Her voice sounds like the wind whispering through the grassy fields of the Shire on a warm summer day.
Maybe it was the sound of her voice, or maybe it was the their full bellies, it could have been the warm weather, or something completely different, but the two hobbits were quickly lulled to sleep in her branches.