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"I hope you've got it in your mind to be waking up soon." Fili sighed. He paused for a moment and let the silence fill the room as he stared down at the sleeping she dwarf. Adriana looked tough, even though she was dead to the world. Maybe that was the reason everyone seemed to be able to handle the current situation. Because she still looked like she was fighting against whatever was keeping her from them. "Tille and Glenn have finally made a convincing argument for a double wedding, and I doubt you'd want to miss that." The blonde dwarf watched his cousin breath evenly. "I just barely managed to have them wait until those from the Blue Mountains arrive. I'm anxious too, I won't deny. But Mother would kill me if I let myself and Tille get married without her there." Fili smirked. "And she'd probably kill Kili too, just for good measure."
The she dwarf lay unmoving. "You've really got to wake up soon. There's a kingdom here that needs a ruler. Someone to guide them. And I can't do it. Not alone anyway." Fili swallowed. "Just wake up soon. All right?"
"OHNO!" Fili jumped up in alarm. He knew that voice. "No! No-no-no-no-no…" Someone blurred past the doorway down the hallway, blonde hair flying behind her.
"Glenn?" the dwarf asked, poking his head out the door to see his future wife stop in the hallway frantically. "What's the matter?" Glenn looked at Fili with wide eyes, holding their daughter in her arms.
"It's Kalda!" She stressed, trying to move the child around to face away from her. "She's coughing up fire!"
"What?" Fili stared blankly. As if too demonstrate, Kalda made a little gurgling sound and hiccupped, a small puff of flame escaping from her mouth. Thankfully, it was mostly smoke.
"Fili, what do I do?" Glenn looked at him in horror. The little baby gurgled happily.
"I-I… I don't know." Fili admitted, still in a state of shock. "Where were you headed?" he walked over.
"The kitchen." Glenn explained, starting forward again. "I thought I'd look for a stone bowl or something." The three of them hurried to the little kitchen area for the royal wing.
"What good would that do?" Fili asked in confusion.
"Stop her from setting her clothes or hair on fire." Glenn grimaced. "I don't know what else to do! I've read plenty baby books back on earth, but nothing talked about anything like this!"
"Oh, back at your old home?"
"Yes." Kalda coughed up a tiny flame again. "Ugh! Where's Gandalf when you need him?"
"Taking Bilbo back to Hobbiton."
"I know that." Glenn snapped. "Sorry, sorry." She shook her head. "I just have no idea what I'm supposed to do!"
"It's alright, we'll figure this out." Fili said reassuringly as they entered the kitchen. Thankfully it was currently unoccupied. Glenn laid Kalda down on the counter as Fili fetched a small clay bowl.
"Let's see…" the young woman fretted, racking her brain for anything that might be helpful. "Oh! Maybe…" She picked up the little babe again and held it over one shoulder before starting to pat the child's back.
"What are you doing?" Fili asked, still holding the bowl.
"Well, I don't know!" Glenn frowned. "This is what your supposed to do when babies need to burp and I thought that maybe this might be similar, so-" in response, Kalda made a little hiccupping sound and a small jet of flame shot out of her mouth. "Oh Go…osssssshhhh!" Glenn corrected herself as Fili rushed over to put out the small fires starting on the tips of his fiancé's hair.
"Looks like you were right." Fili admitted, taking the already yawning Kalda out of Glenn's arms.
"Yeah… Hopefully, she won't be doing that very often." Glenn agreed slowly, holding up the clump of singed hair to her face. "Aw man, and it was just getting long too!" she dropped the lock of hair again and turned to put the bowl away. "Now I'll have to cut it to even it out again."
"Cut it?" Glenn turned to Fili in confusion at his suddenly serious tone.
"Yes, trim off the edges a bit. Look how short this is in comparison!" she held up the clump of hair again. "Oh… oh this is another one of those dwarf things, isn't it?" Fili rolled his eyes.
"Yes, it is another one of those dwarf things." He shifted the now sleeping Kalda slightly in his arms. "Dwarves never cut their hair without reason. Usually for mourning a lost One."
"Alright, I guess I can understand that." Glenn sighed. "But what do I do in the meantime? It looks terribly unkempt, and I'm not going to be making a very good impression on your mother in a few weeks with half of my hair being four inches shorter than the rest."
"You're exaggerating, it's just one small lock." Fili shook his head, chuckling. "And I've told you. Mother will like you even if all your hair was burned off. As long as you just be yourself." Glenn rolled her eyes.
"Sure. You say that. But did you tell her that I've already had your child?" the silence was laid thick like a blanket.
"Actually…"
"You didn't mention it?" Glenn narrowed her eyes. "I can't believe you! You didn't even think to slip it in somewhere in the letter you sent?"
"You're going to hate me." Fili frowned.
"More than I already do?"
"The truth is, I didn't exactly mention… you… at all…"
"…"
"I think I should probably run now."
"What do you mean you didn't even mention me?" Glenn's eyes were dangerously narrow. Fili slowly backed up towards the door, somewhat using Kalda as a shield. "Fili! Don't you dare run from me!" Too late.
Sorry, kind of a short chapter.
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