‘ Rest as long as you need. ’
[Starter meme I can’t find the link to from @carvenking.]
A protest springs quickly to her lips, stayed at the last instant before giving way to a smile. It is not so long ago since she courted discord with the King on this same matter, and at the memory her amusement grows - at the table turned and how the excuses she almost gave would have echoed his.
Work to do … must attend … and on their heels the remonstrance she gave to him in return. Now it is she who tires and sags with the weight of it; she who might commit an error by not being at her best. And while in the company of another she might still insist on struggling on, there’s little doubt Thorin will have her own words in waiting, ready to serve them back.
With a sigh she settles, the irony of it all but drawing a chuckle to the fore. “Thank you, your Majesty. You will call me if I’m needed, won’t you?”














