Aaron watches with an amused smile. He has no hard feelings about the incident, of course, but it feels a little like payback for Liam showing off earlier.

"There will be no food until the end of the journey," he says in the same language. He doesn't know that he has the animal-communication aspect of SIndarin back, but there is something in his memories of Aragorn, a piece of knowledge that says that the Elves can speak with animals in the elf-tongues. Aaron thinks that perhaps if the horse hears it from both Mom and Dad, it will listen. "Come with us and consent to bear us, and we will see that you are fed."