" Dwalin said with a frown."It was a very long time ago master dwarf." Arnial replied. "I ran out of tears long ago."Thorin nodded his head slowly and...looked at a scar close to her wrist that was very small, very thin. It was a clean cut at one point and also very old looking it was a dim white color by now."This one?" he asked."I brought my arm up while in combat to keep a blade from coming down on me. It hit my sword first and when he came back around with the blade he got my arm thankfully I. Then we were off again, reassured that once we reached the last third of the trek, we would be ready for it.There are good things about travelling with a herd of cattle, even if they slow you down. If you don’t make a kill during the day then there is always cow for dinner. It is as simple as that. Luckily, we’d only had to do that once. A drawback however was that cattle drew the attention of pests, particularly in the dead of night. It was to be expected.Naturally I posted guards every night.. “Feel like a swim,” he said, more of a statement than a question. “So do I, actually. Water here is nice?” “Should be by now. It’s a bit icy in the spring and even early summer but warms up by now.” We strolled down a trail of steps to a lower deck that was right on the water and had a small dock projecting out from it. Tony walked out on to the dock and sat on the end, dangling his feet in the water. “Perfect,” he said, then slipped in. I followed. It was cool, but not extremely so and was a. I asked Katie about that ... she laughed. "Cyndy is living vicariously through me. She's a virgin ... reluctantly."One of the guys needled me about being with Katie..."Hey Pete, how's Katie's cookies?" I probably turned red...He laughed and said. 'Well, don't worry about it ... at least she's really good looking. Lot of these guys are gonna strike out and they're with dogs"Heh!I had thought the plan was that we were going to stay an hour or two ... but after 50 minutes or so, she grabbed my.