At Your Service ~ Thorin Oakenshield

All my life I felt like a misfit. Like I didn't belong. I tried to find a place I could call home, where someone would look at me and for once take me as I was.
There is evil inside of me. I have always felt its presence, lurking from the depths of my soul like a shadow following behind its wearer.
I tried to fight it, I ignored that part of me and denied it for as long as I could. Like with famine I thought I could starve it just long enough until I could forget it was ever there.
I eventually found my home and my saviour in darkness.
I found hope in a shadow so black that even the darkest night seemed a bright contrast to it.
I was alone so long, I forgot what it meant to mean something to someone. I had been out in the cold so long, I forgot what it felt like to feel another person's warmth.
I made many mistakes in my life and as darkness took a hold of me I was ready to make so many more, until one day someone proved to me there was still another way.
Until that day all I had ever known was how to bow and try to survive the day.
"At your service!" Used to be the only sentence that would keep the monster at bay.