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The moonlight illuminates a keyhole in the rock, and Bilbo gasps in surprise; even StarDust does. The hobbit yells for the dwarves, who have already gone, to hear. He peers over the edge of the clearing at the stairs but sees no sign of the dwarves. "they're coming back, master Baggins," Tatsuo suddenly says, and bilbo glances at her, nodding, then he begins looking around on the ground. "Where's the Where's the key? Where's the- it was here...but it was here, it was here! It was just...." Bilbo is looking frantically around on the ground in the clearing for the key; suddenly, his foot hits it, and it goes flying from the clearing. Just before it falls off the side of the mountain, a boot steps on the string and stops it. It is Thorin. Bilbo sighs in relief. Thorin slowly reaches down and picks up the key, then examines it. The other dwarves step up beside him. They all smile in relief at Bilbo.
The woman smiles too. "I knew it," she whispers, but throin hears her and sends a soft smile to her. Thorin inserts the key into the keyhole and turns it; mechanisms are heard turning behind the rock. Thorin pushes the wall, and a previously unseen door opens into the mountain. The seams of the door were utterly invisible earlier. The door opens into a tunnel going into the hill. The dwarves look at it in awe, Tatsuo too, as Thorin stands on the threshold. "Erebor," she mutters, breathing. "Thorin..." Balin suddenly calls, his voice on the verge of breaking. Tatsuo walks up to him and places a hand on his shoulder. Thorin puts a hand on his shoulder. he then steps into the mountain. "I know these walls...these walls, this stone. You remember it, Balin. Chambers filled with golden light." he mumbles in a trance. Thorin runs his hands over the walls, lost in memory as he says this. Balin steps into the tunnel.
"I remember," Balin says, and the dwarves, along with their two extra companions, slowly and reverently enter the mountain. Inside, Nori points at a carving in the wall above the door; it is of the throne of Erebor, with the Arkenstone above it, sending out rays of light in all directions. Gloin reads aloud the inscription on the carving. "Herein lies the seventh kingdom of Durin's Folk. So may the heart of the mountain unite all dwarves in defense of this home." Bilbo looks at the carving with interest and curiosity. Balin explains it to him. "The throne of the king."
"Oh. And what's that above it?" he asks, and Tatsuo speaks up, "The Arkenstone." bilbo hums, ackowling her answer. he then asks, confused. "Arkenstone....And what's that?" again, the female shifter speaks up. "That, Master Burglar, is why we are here" All the dwarves look at Bilbo and Tatsuo, whose head is held high but in her eyes shines resolutely.
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