Honesty
Maggot didn’t like the looks of him and liked him trespassing on his land even less. Big and black he was, like his horse, and covered in a dark cloak with a hood that hid his face.
The voice came from out of the depths of the hood. “Have you seen Baggins?”
Suddenly he was terrified. The voice was cold as death and dark as the night that surrounded them. Maggot wanted to throw him off Frodo’s track. He thought of his wife, his sons, his farm. He heard a voice he barely recognized as his own say, “The Ferry….”
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Author's note: this was writing for a challenge. If someone had been honest or told someone something that they didn’t know in the original books, what might have been different?