[Balin, why are you not over here saving from from the screaming children? This is exactly why he didn't want them around in the first place. The look he gives both of them is less than pleasant before he turns his head aside, away from the two, and closes his eyes.]
...don't be stupid... if that would be the last thing I said... and it was a lie?
[He won't do that. False hope isn't something they can expect from him.]
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...don't be stupid... if that would be the last thing I said... and it was a lie?
[He won't do that. False hope isn't something they can expect from him.]