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letters and second chances.

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[ dwarves are hardy folk. they are built to endure and to weather the storms and the evils of the world, built to last and spite the odds.

never the less, Thorin had not expected to wake again. even as they fussed and carried him back across the battlefield. the memory itself exists only in fragments in his mind before he mercifully lost consciousness for good, to the smell of cold and death and the clouds hanging low over his home.

it is days before he first wakes, and they are very long days and very long nights too. but he does wake, the King under the Mountain, and when he does, the first words out of his mouth are questions, half-coherent at best, inquiries of his kin, his friends. did they survive? did they stay?

reassurances do not do much when he already suspects they might try anything if it will pacify him. but he lasts mere minutes before exhaustion overtakes him again, and sleeps for most of another day. ]