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Relieved that Tommy hadn't caused any trouble, Caity took the chair that was offered. "That's very kind of you," she said, interested in hearing Benat's tale. "Do you want to come up here, Tommy?" she asked her brother.
"I'll stay with Cullen," said the young hobbit, who had clearly just made a new friend. "I can hear fine from down here." To emphasize his point, he sat down right on the lounging dog's back, so that it looked as if he were riding a pony.
"Benat here's got an interesting story, it seems," one of the listeners told Tommy. "Says his grandfather went into battle -- as a bear."
His eyes grew wider than when he had seen Cullen, and even Caity leaned in to listen closely as Benat began his tale.
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