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"Very helpful Bofur" Gandalf said as he turned to glare at the dwarf in question.
"I didn't mean anything by it" Bofur stated quietly looking to the hobbit still lying on the floor.
"I know you didn't" Restania said "It was a bit of fun was all. Come on let's get him up off the floor." Restania and Bofur stood and moved to the hobbit's side and scooped him up between them.
"Where should we set him down, I wonder" Bofur asked her.
"There is an arm chair in by the fire set… our burglar (said with disgust)… in there." Restania turned to see it was Thorin who had spoken. They did as they were bid sitting him in the arm chair gently.
"Restania get the old boy some tea would you I imagine he will need a greatly when he rejoins the land of the living." She nodded and headed toward the kitchen where she ran in to Dori.
"Master Dori do you perhaps have left any of that wonderful chamomile tea you made for
Gandalf earlier?"
"That I do Miss Restania wait a tick and I shall get you a cup I am to assume this is for our dear hobbit." She smiled and nodded watching as he went to the fireplace, took the kettle off the fire and poured the tea into a large hobbit sized cup.
"Would you like some Miss Restania?" He turned to look at her smiling
"Just Restania and yes if you don't mind" Returning the smile he poured another and handed both to her.
"Then it's just Dori" She smiled at him again and moved out of the kitchen and down the hall passing by she saw the dwarves had spread around the house into smaller groups. She smiled when she saw Thorin and Balin talking together in one of the halls off the main one she was walking in.
Thorin looked up and saw her smiling as she walked toward him and smiled a half smile and nodded to her. This caused her smile to brighten. She seemed to glow in the candlelight.
Balin smiled as she passed watching his prince's reaction to her. "She is quiet the pretty thing isn't she?" Thorin's head jerked around to stare at Balin. "I had long feared you had given up on finding a woman that interested you it seems I was mistaken."
Thorin stared for a moment "She is a beautiful enigma, a half elf that I cannot bring myself to hate that in itself is strange, but to be a member of a race that I had long heard was extinct. I imagine you could say that she does hold some interest to me."
Balin smiled and leaned over to pat the prince's arm. "She has made you smile more this past evening then I have seen in the last 40 years that says something of her"
Restania could hear them talking as she passed but paid it little mind. She entered the sitting room with the tea handing it to the now awake hobbit. "Are you alright" She asked sitting on a stool next to Gandalf.
"I'll be alright just let me sit quietly for a moment" Bilbo replied.
"You've been sitting quietly for far too long" Gandalf replied "Tell me when did Doilies and your mothers dish's become so important to you. I remember a young hobbit who was always running off in search of elves, who would come home late trailing mud and twigs and fireflies, a young hobbit who would have loved nothing better than to find out was beyond the borders of the shire"
Restania spoke up "The world is not in books and maps it's out there" she pointed to the window "and it is full of the most amazing sites anyone could ever wish to see ."
"I can't just go running off into the blue I am a Baggins of Bag End" Bilbo stated firmly both terrified and excited, but terror was winning out.
"You are also a Took" Bilbo let his head fall back against the chair but Gandalf continued "Did you know that your great, great, great, great, great uncle was so large he could ride a real horse. Bilbo nodded.
"Well he could, in the battle of green fields he charged the goblin ranks, he swung his club so hard that he knocked the goblin kings head clean off and sailed one hundred yards and fell into a rabbit hole and thus the battle was one and the game of golf invented at the same time" Gandalf smiled when Bilbo and Restania laughed.
"I do believe you made that up" Bilbo stated.
"All good stories need embellishment. " Gandalf stated.
"You will have a tale or two to tell of your own when you come back" Restania smiled at Bilbo as she spoke.
"Can you promise me I will come back?" Bilbo asked
"No" Gandalf answered "and if you do you will not be the same."
"That's what I thought im sorry but I can't sign this you have got the wrong hobbit." He stood and walked stiffly down the hall to his room.
Restania stood and looked to Gandalf "Do you think he will come around?"
"I think he will" Gandalf stood as well "I think I shall refill my pipe." and he moved off
Restania moved down the hall headed to the kitchen when she felt a hand grab her own, she turned and realized it was the dwarf prince who had captured her.
"It appears we have lost our burglar" he said letting go of her hand. She came closer leaning against the wall next to him.
"Im not so sure of that but it is possible" Restania answered.
"It's probably for the best the odds were always against us." Balin stated "After all what are we merchants, miners, tinkers, toy makers hardly the stuff of legend."
"I have heard legends with less" Restania stated "It is not what your jobs were or are it is what you accomplish that will be remembered do not lose hope before you have tried."
Thorin looked at her surprised at the sureness of her voice "She truly believes in us and this quest" he thought to himself "perhaps there is hope."
"There are a few warriors among us" Thorin reminded.
"Old warriors" Balin shot back. Thorin smiled.
"I will take every one of these dwarves and" he glanced at Restania "the elemental over an army from the iron hills for when I called upon them they answered. Even if they weren't asked for originally" Again he glanced at Restania, she was looking at him this time and caught his glance. She nodded to him in gratitude of the acceptance he had so readily given her.
"Loyalty, honor, a willing heart I could ask no more than that." He had yet to break the look he and the woman shared. Restania felt he was trying to tell her something without actually saying it. The moment was broken by Balin.
"You don't have to do this, you have a choice, you have done honorably by our people, building us a new life in the Blue Mountains, a life of peace and plenty, a life that is worth more than all the gold in Erebor."
"From my grandfather to my father this had come to me" he took the key out again "They dreamed of the day when the dwarves of Erebor would reclaim their homeland. There is no choice not for me."
"Then we are with you laddie" Balin stated standing and moving off toward where the other dwarves had started gathering.
Thorin made to follow but was stopped by a hand on his arm. He turned to look at the woman and was surprised for find her kneeling in front of him.
"My king I am down on one knee to pledge my loyalty to you if by my life I can save you or one of your kin I will do so. Will you accept my loyalty?"
He hadn't expected this he put his hand under her chin raising it to look into his eyes. "I will a hundred times over I will. Rise" She did
"There was no need for that Restania Greenwood I have not doubted your motives."
"I know but it is a respect that you deserve. You are our leader Thorin Oakenshield and we owe your our loyalty and devotion."
He did not know how to respond she had pledged her loyalty something only a handful of others had done. "Come they are waiting on us" He led them down the hall to the den.
She moved to the side leaning against one of the tables that sat there and was surprised when she was joined by Thorin's nephews.
"I have never seen our uncle as taken with someone as he is you" Fili stated.
"The feeling is mutual actually. Is that going to be a problem?" Restania asked
"No not at all actually we are beyond glad Thorin has always been a lonely soul I am glad to see after all these years that someone has finally garnered is attention." Kili answered this time
She went to answer when she was struck dumb by Thorin starting to sing.
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To find our long forgotten gold
The Pines were roaring in the height
The winds were moaning in the night
The fire was red
It flaming spread
The trees like torches blazed with light.
By the end of the song all the dwarves were singing and Restania almost couldn't hold back the tears at the sheer beauty and power of the dwarves' song.
"Alright everyone get settled we leave at first light tomorrow." Thorin stated.
Restania moved off the find herself a spot and set her bedroll down getting ready to sleep a while later as she laid there she heard another bedroll being placed next to hers she turned seeing Thorin laying down beside her.
"Your song was beautiful you have a wonderful singing voice" She said quietly she could already hear several snores from those around her.
"I thank you. I was surprised to see it moved you so". He had seen her tears had been startled by them but was appreciative of them as well it meant she understood how much this meant to him.
"We will reclaim your home Thorin" Restania stated
"How can you know this" He turned on his side to face her
"It is simply a feeling. This journey will not be easy but I believe that we will accomplish our goal." He nodded slightly laying back onto his back
"Get some sleep Miss Greenwood it will be a long day of traveling tomorrow.
"Its Restania my king I am but a simple wanderer"
"Then it is Thorin for I have no kingdom" She wanted to argue with him but hadn't the energy. She closed her eyes and heard his singing again. He was singing her to sleep