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    There’s…something under her shirt.

     

     

    Not just something, actually. There’s rope under her shirt.

    Eskel invites Ciri out to go climbing, but discovers she's already, uh, harnessed up, and...whoops they fuck in the woods.

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    A marriage proposal, in three acts.

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    Business pulls Bilbo to the town of Scary, but it is the journey home that changes everything for Bilbo. Family, it seems, comes in many forms, and quite possibly in the form of a scarred, silent shade of a Dwarrow Bilbo finds in a ditch.

    Family, though, is a tricky thing, and there's fun to be had when they come looking for their kin.

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    “Do you think she realizes I have neither a beard nor any axes?” Bilbo said idly. “I mean, of course I know it is an idiomatic phrase, but it is rather funny when you think about it.”

    “You have a beard and axes of the spirit,” Thorin said firmly.

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    Thorin has always been happy to see Bilbo adopt dwarfish ways, until it is pointed out to him that Bilbo, not actually being a dwarf, might be happier in their marriage if Thorin were to make a bit of effort to adopt some hobbitish ways in turn.

     

    Naturally, Thorin goes about this in a sensible and moderate manner.

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    Once Bilbo arrives in the haunted stillness of Bag End, his chest aches to realize the house does not feel like a home anymore. His books are still there, his furniture is still there (once he hunts it down and returns it, dusty and fingerprinted, to its correct place.) But still, the feeling of pervasive strangeness remains. He at first chalks it up to having been empty: to a year of disuse, to odd scents filtering their way in and settling like cobwebs in the absence of his usual routine, tea and baking and the drying of herbs. Perhaps, once he begins these things again, it will not feel so cavernous, so lonely, so strangely and painfully bare, like a tree stripped of its leaves come winter.

    But weeks pass, and nothing changes. So maybe it’s not the emptiness, but the fact (which he is trying his very hardest to dutifully ignore) that he left his heart behind to crystalize in the caverns of the Lonely Mountain.

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