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Epilogue
Thorin collapsed onto the damp ground, his uneven sobs rattling his body. The sky was darkening, and soon the Goblins would be able to leave the horrible cave they called home, and would hunt himself and his friends down for killing their King. But he did not care. His sister, whom he had just been reunited with, was gone. Because of him. Because he was so wrapped up in himself and his hatred of he Elves that he had to leave Rivendell as soon as possible. Maybe, just maybe she wouldn't have died…
"Thorin?" Gandalf asked, approaching the grieving King under the Mountain. "I am afraid we must leave soon, we cannot delay. The sky is darkening, and the Goblins will be on our trail as soon as they possibly can,"
"What?!" Thorin shouted, jumping up and facing Gandalf, even though he was almost twice his size, "We cannot leave! We must at least have a burial! What about her body?"
Gandalf looked at Thorin in pity, which angered him even more. He did not want or need pity. "Thorin, we both know that there will be nothing left of her body. The Goblins would have burnt her."
Thorin knew this was true, yet he could not face it. He could see it all clearly; the look on her face as her eyes found his; the peace he saw in them and the shape of her sad smile; the way she fought until the very end.
He could not face it. He had watched his sister die, and did nothing about it. He had stood by and stared, shocked as to what she was doing. He looked over to Bombur, who had tears flowing down his face. He thought it was his fault for being so fat, but Thorin new the truth. Rhoewia had known what would have happened if she hadn't of done anything: they would all be dead. She knew the risk, yet was willing to take it. She loved the dwarves like her family.
Thorin stood, ignoring Gandalf's looks, and slouched over to Kili, who was crying silently, staring into the distance. He didn't look up as Thorin sat down on the rough terraine next to him. He had never seen Kili cry before. Never. His nephew's eyes were red and puffy, as though he had been sobbing his eyes out.
"Ahem," Thorin coughed. For the first time in his life, he felt nervous at approaching Kili, something he had never felt before. He and his nephew had always been close; he was like a father to Fili and Kili. To see him heartbroken like this tore him apart. All he had ever wanted was for his family to be happy. But his family also included Rhoewia…
"You know," Thorin said, tears welling up in his own eyes, "If she had the chance to change what had just happened, she wouldn't. She wanted it that way,"
Kili looked at him, the tears drying up. "I liked her, Uncle," he told Thorin, who nodded in return.
"I know," he said.
For the next couple of minutes, they sat in silence. It wasn't an awkward silence. It was a peaceful silence. They could hear the cries of the other dwarves' but it didn't matter, as right now, they were both thinking back to happy memories.
Her soul lives on,
Though her body is gone,
She will always be in our thoughts
She will travel to a place,
Where she will glide about in grace,
And she will be looked up to by everyone
As Thorin sang the mesmerising song, Gandalf heard it, from about a hundred paces of him. The words toughed him, and he felt tears building up in his eyes, whether from sadness of their loss, or happiness of her freedom, he did not know. She would have wanted this, he thought; she would have wanted to die a hero's death.
Gandalf glanced around him, at the sorrowful dwarves emptying their hearts, and he knew that she could not be kept away from the people she had come to know as her family. She would return, whether as a spirit, or in a new form, but when she did return, only he would know. He was the only one who possessed this gift, but it Thorin truly knew her, as he said he did, then maybe he would know it was her too.
But one thing was certain: She would return!
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