Is this right???

Passporte' by MisPlace Dolls

As Arnie, Drat, and Dree were walking one of the many trails to the Gooblin King's domain, Arnie's mind was reeling.  "What am I doing?" she kept thinking.

Arnie had once 'borrowed' a book from Passporte' in her one of many excursions.  She had read part of it especially the part that had to do with something about what you are and your responsibilities to the universe.  "I think it was called something like 'x-is-essential-isms' (existentialism)" she remembered.  

​The thought of being responsible for what you did both bothered her and excited her.  "Leaving that beautiful purple feather behind for the book was worth it," she had thought at the time.  But now, she was wondering if she would have been better off not knowing any of this.

She didn't want her fellow adventurers to know, but she was having doubts of what she was doing here on this quest.  "Is just looking at something that is not mine a good enough reason to just 'borrow it'?" she pondered.  "I know that Drat and Dree are counting on me, but I just don't know.  If I do this, am I still doing something bad though I am being told it is for a good cause?  Doesn't that make it still a bad thing?"  Her mind kept going around in circles as they grew nearer to their destination.

As Drat was telling Dree that he knew of several ways to sneak into the Gooblin King's cavern, Dree glanced over at Arnie and realized that she was deep into her own thoughts.  He had noticed that Arnie had been quiet during the trek.  "I know she was at first reluctant to agree to help but what could she be thinking about so hard?" Dree thought to himself.  It did not take much for Drat to also notice that neither one of his traveling companions were now listening to his plans. He too stopped talking and started to watch Arnie also.  Arnie was so caught up in her thoughts that she actually walked right into Dree before realizing they had stopped and were staring at her.

"OOPS!  Sorry about that Dree," Arnie said as she stood back with her hands up in the air trying not to look guilty.

"Arnie, are you okay with what we are doing?" the Dragon asked the Borrower.  "You don't have to do this you know."

Arnie stared at the other two a minute before answering.  "Now that I am trying to change from a 'borrower' to a 'finder', I just don't know if what I am doing is still right."  

​"Yes, we are finding a book and you did say that we were not borrowing it, but at the same time aren't we finding something that belongs to someone else? Especially because we aren't asking them if we can look at it... is that the right thing to do?"  In Drat's mind, the answer was instantly 'YES' but Dree's answer to Arnie's question even surprised him.

"Arnie, I am still learning myself and I agree that it is not completely right, but it is necessary.  It is up to you to decide if it is right for you so we are going to let you decide how we should to this.  Do we continue or do we go back and find another way?"

A tear came to Arnie's eye.  Never had she felt like she had others who would follow her.  It was a new sense of responsibility that she had not experienced before and it was because they trusted her.  No one trusted a Borrower!  "Thank you both.  I have been thinking about it much and we must do this... but I think we need to do it a different way than sneaking into the Gooblin King's caverns and sulking around until we find it.  I have a different plan."

As Drat and Dree waited to hear her plan, Arnie looked at Drat and with a smile and a gleam in her eyes, "Can you get us an audience with the Gooblin King?"