Thorin is displeased with his placement into dragonhaven. No one is surprised.

[kinginexile]

So be it then. Dragons.

I dare not say twas the better option, but to be wed to some elf like prince could have been worse in many ways. Ways I dare not think of nor discuss.

[He's not going to even get into the whole starting him out in some city full of elves. Also thank you for taking him from the end of the movie so he's hurt. Best mundane ever.]

There is some comfort in having my kin here, though it would be better if we were still with the rest of the company. There is no time to chase dragons about in this place, Erebor waits and Durin's day grows closer still. Though you care little for our troubles don't you?

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[desaturates]

Then close your eyes, and you will see nothing, but hear everything.

But you are in luck, Master Thorin: dragons do not wait on finding. They have learned too much patience in their long life. It is lost to them, like water from a cup filled past its brim.

[kinginexile]

[Oh Gandalf you always know what to say. Honestly he could do with listening more, not bad advice at all.]

Luck? No, luck would have me at the doors of Erebor. This is far from it.

[desaturates]

If you have traveled half your journey, or its better, not to know you are in luck to have your life and your legs, then they have all been wasted on you.

Man do I love Gandalf when he gets that finger wagging tone at Thorin lol

[kinginexile]

So be that true in regard to having my life, but I could do with luck favoring us in other ways as well.

Danger hounds our heels at every turn, it is as if Middle Earth itself does not wish for our quest to be successful.

sob coddling does not work with him!

[desaturates]

So it may be. But the Shire has lent us a hobbit. We owe it your triumph and the return of its gift, be its state what it may.

Despair now, if you must, if only because despair is of the lesser lived.

nope! also your Gandalf is made of amazing

[kinginexile]

The halfing has proven to be more than any of us imagined, perhaps other than yourself, but you speak as if he guarantees us the lonely mountain.

I do not despair, I only wish for our journey to not be impeded by more nonsense. [Aka, stupid pale orcs that should be dead, but are not and everything else in between. Also stupid elves.]

orz thank you

[desaturates]

He guarantees me hope. It is the single thing of sense without which your journey and mine cannot find its beginning, let alone its end.

of course! <3

[kinginexile]

[Thorin sighs and nods a little. Leave it to Gandalf to make him see reason... sometimes.]

And what do you imagine will be the end to our journey, Gandalf?

[desaturates]

Wine, if I am to have a merry company beside me.

[kinginexile]

That can easily be arranged. Unless the dragon drank all the wine and mead in the cellars of our mountain home for all these years, I think we shall be fine in that regard.

[Would wine that old even taste good? There's letting it set for some years, but over a hundred? Hm. Well, he'd let Gandalf have his fill of it when the time came. Optimistic much? Yes.]

Mayhaps we shall fest on the dragon Smaug itself, if we are lucky.

[Though he'd much rather a proper fest and not eat gross dragon, but one step at a time.]