A perilous beauty

[glints_on_snow]

Pippin, do you remember the song that the dwarves taught to Bilbo Baggins?
The wind was on the withered heath
but in the forest stirred no leaf:
there shadows lay by night and day,
and dark things silent crept beneath.The song is not true, my love. There is no wind here. If there was a forest, it has long since languished and died. Here and there I

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[trickster_loki]

Now that they had essentially reached their destination, Loki was probably the most relaxed of everyone in the group. He simply crouched down into an almost sitting position, but not quite down onto the earth and waited for the dragon to appear, having no apparent qualms about whether or not they were all going to get eaten.

[iolaus_lj]

Iolaus watched the skies and wondered when this dragon of glints_on_snow's would make its appearance. He wasn't especially worried for himself, but Diamond had apparently invested a lot in this -- both the exhausting trip itself and the emotional turmoil of having left loved ones behind. He hoped she knew what she was doing.