63. Flotsam and Jetsam
[Merry and Pippin stand waist-deep in water. They look up at the balcony of Orthanc.]
Merry: "He doesn't look too happy, does he?"
Pippin: "Not too happy at all, Merry."
[Saruman and Wormtounge stalk along the balcony.]
Merry: "Still, I suppose the view would be quite nice form up there."
Pippin: "Oh yes, a quality establishment. I hear the staff are very good."
[Merry surreptitiously tries to measure his height against Pippin's. Pippin looks back at him, and Merry pretends to be picking something out of his hair.]
Pippin: "What are you doing?"
Merry: "Nothing. The world's back to normal, that's all."
Pippin: "No it isn't. I'm starving."
Merry: "Good luck trying to find something decent around here. Probably only dead rats and moldy bread."
[Pippin finds an apple floating in the water. He looks up, then he smiles.]
[More apples are floating.]
[He grabs them, then drops them to pick up a roast chicken, then finds a whole basket of apples. Merry finds a carafe of wine. They enter a storeroom filled with food.]
Merry: "Saruman's storeroom!"
[They see barrels marked 'Southfarthing'.]
Pippin: "I don't believe it."
Merry: "It can't be."
Pippin: "It is."
[They open a barrel.]
Merry: "Longbottom Leaf. The finest pipe-weed in South Farthing."
Pippin: "It's perfect. One barrel each. Wait. Do you think we should share it with Treebeard?"
Merry: "Share it? No. No. Dead plant and all that. Don't think he'd understand. Could be a distant relative."
Pippin: "I get it. Don't be hasty."
Merry: "Exactly. Bar-hrum."
[Treebeard peeks into the storeroom as smoke begins to billow out.]
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