On the way

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"I'm not a baby for like the one hundred and eleventh time!" You said but could not help but laughing.
You rode on your own pony now, and was kept warm in a darkgreen hood of wool it had been bought on the market for you when the company provide for the journey.
"Explain then..." the brothers said laughing back.
"You know very well that humans age different, some of my age are already married and have children."
"But not you?" Fili smirked.
" No, obviously not..." you smirked back at him.
"You three are actually quite close in age".
A voice came from behind. It was Balin.
"If Fili and Kili were humans they would be around 30 and 29 years old."
"But then she is a baby, because she is still younger than us" Kili laughed.

The sun was shining, it was in the beginning of May ( so you hade been right when you arrived to middle earth that it was spring or early summer).
You were still riding through hobbitlands, that ment that the roads were good and that you encountered both hobbits, humans and dwarves on the road. There were Inns along the way but the weather was good and the nights not cold so for saving expenses you slept outside.
You would at least one night had wanted to check in to an Inn, just to get out of your chore for one night and one morning...doing the dishes...
That was your chore and nobody elses.
To be watchman during nights that chore went on a rolling schedule but on the other hand when it came to cook the meals it was mostly up to Bombur, Bifur and Bofur (lucky for you all because they were good at it). One morning Dwalin made the porridge and he burnt it and it was unlucky for you that hade to work hard on cleaning the cauldron, you hade to scrub it with river gravel!

After about a week you hade got so far that you were no longer encountering hobbits, human or dwarves. There were noone living here and no Inns...it was the solitary moors. The nights were a bit more uneasy because now you could be assaulted by robbers.
Far away gloomy high hills emerge higher and higher to the sky.
The moor went on for a long way but you could see a forest...or was it?
You rode past some in the company and to the front to speak to Gandalf.
"Gandalf is that a forest?"
"No, not really its the Midgewater marshes." Gandalf frowned.
"And we are going through there?"
"I'm afraid so my dear y/n and it will take us a few days to get throughout to the otherside."
Thorin had heard you and gave you a gaze and with raised eyebrows said " You are not afraid of flies, Mosquito and gnats I hope?"
"Not really I guess I just don't fancy being eaten alive". You mutter.

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