In this, Pippin is (yet again) pestering Frodo. Only this time it's worth something. Another Theological Bunny, 2 speakers.
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“Frodo?”
“Mmmph?”
“Are you asleep?”
“Yes.”
“No you aren’t, you’re talking!”
“Well, I WISH I was asleep!!”
“You’re crabby.”
“I certainly am! Go to sleep.”
“All right, BE that way! I was just wondering about something…..”
*sigh* “I’m never going to go back to sleep, am I?” *sits up* “Okay, tell me.”
“It’s just… I never told my folks that I was leaving.”
“You didn’t know you were. You were off stealing mushrooms when you *AHEM* “ran into” Sam and I.”
“I know. But if I’d just TOLD them…. What if they think something’s happened to me?”
“They’d be right.”
“But what if they think I’m dead? What if something happened to THEM?”
“There isn’t much you can do. We’re kind of out in the wilderness.”
“I know. I still miss them though. Frodo, do you trust Strider?”
*silence*
“Frodo?”
*sigh* “Yes. Yes I do.”
“You hesitated. How come?”
“I don’t know if I can really trust anyone. And, needless to say, he isn’t exactly the best at introducing himself.”
*laughs* “Gave you quite a turn, did he, dragging you up the stairs like that?”
*uncomfortable* “Well, yes! I was afraid he was with…Them.”
“He doesn’t look much like a Ringwraith.”
“Don’t talk about them, please.”
“Well, at any rate, serves you right, wearing the Ring and scaring us all to death!”
*irritated* “Peregrin Took, it was an accident and you know it!”
“Whatever you say…”
“Actually if it was anyone’s fault, it was yours! Talking about your cousins and second cousins like that, giving us away!”
*uncomfortable* “It wasn’t my fault….”
*laughing* “Who’s uncomfortable NOW?”
“Oh, go to sleep Frodo.”
“Gladly.”
*softly* “I sure can’t sleep. I dream about home.”
*gently* “Dream about the way it is. Dream about what we’re fighting for.”
*yawns* “’K. G’night Frodo.”
“Good night.”