The confrontation with Gandalf and the wraith ended before the fox could get there, so, rather disappointed, the fox began to follow Gandalf. Except he was making rather unusual puns (as they say in the Barrow-Downs) with a rather beautiful Maia. Oh yes, animals can tell the difference usually between a Maia and a Valar, and a handmaiden of Yavanna was something this fox couldn't resist to get a closer look at.
Stopping a few feet away from Gandalf and Lassiel, the fox sat down, his throttle-brush tail swaying, listening to Gandalf talk and talk and talk.
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"What shall we do, what shall we do!" he cried. "Escaping goblins to be caught be wolves!"
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