Prologue

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There were three words carved crudely into the wall just outside the entrance to Erebor, the one we took when we first arrived here.

You. Will. Pay.

The message is ominous, and it has dampened the mood of everyone in the mountain significantly since the balrogs were defeated.

And now Del is gone.  I haven't told the others yet because I can't bear to see their faces when I do, but I know that the handwriting is Del's.  And I know what that means I have to do.

I have to hunt my sister.

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