To say that he was nervous was an understatement. When it came to crafting jewelry Kíli didn’t exactly have any practice with it. He had learned from his uncle at young age and gave whatever he made to his mother, but that was it. He was suppose to have practice it so he could use his skill once he found a mate and was meant to make her gifts and eventually her engagement beads. But he hadn’t done that since he was certain he would never find a dwarrowdam to love him. Well, he guessed that still hadn’t happened. However he hadn’t exactly thought a daughter of Man would catch his interest either. And of course she would be a princess and most likely have taste in jewelry that greatly outweighed his ability.
Sighing he plucked up the rest of his courage and walked over to the cottage. As much as his mind wished him to believe it, he couldn’t see Briar saying anything bad about what he had made, least not to his face. She possibly wouldn’t wear it, which he would understand, but she wouldn’t say anything negative. But really Kíli just wanted her to like. Well now that he stood in front of the cottage door there was no turning back. Clutching the wrapped parcel that concealed his gifts to her, he entered the cottage as he said, “Rose? Are you here?”
What Briar Rose hated the most was spending so much time away from the cottage so when she returned there was always a very unhealthy amount of dust around all the cupboard and cabinets. She was in the middle of dusting off the house when the door was opened.
She wasn’t surprised at first, expecting that it was perhaps one of her ‘aunts’, or ‘godmothers’ or however they wanted her to call them now that she was technically anything but their charge. However, at the sound of the voice she turned around, skirts swirling around her legs.
“Oh, Kili- sorry, I thought you were one of my aunts,” She wrinkled her small nose and then placed the dusting cloth on top of the cupboard she had been dusting out and made her way over to the dwarf. “I wasn’t expecting to see you here today,” Briar had thought it would have been a quiet day, and that the only company she would have had to deal with would have been the animals that came out from the forest to spend time with her.
